PhD Courses

2022
Syllabus

Lectures Princeton
Introduction
Finance and growth
Investment and financing constraints
Innovation
Trade

• Trade and innovation
• Hombert-Matray, JF slides: a general framework for why trade affects innovation
• Finance and trade

Misallocation

Lectures MIT
1st and 2nd years:

• Investment and Credit Constraints
• Conglomerate
• Finance and Trade

Advanced topics:

• Real effects of financial markets: general slides, noisy stock prices and investment, foreign capital and misallocation
• Innovation and trade:
  • General slides
  • Hombert-Matray, JF slides: a general framework for why trade affects innovation

Merger and Corporate Restructuring

2022
Syllabus

Slides
Lecture 1: Introduction and refresher-PV formula
Lecture 2: Refresher-accounting
Lecture 3 -4: Valuation methods

• FCF
• WACC
• APV
• Un/re-levering
• DCF
• Multiples
• Behavioral biases

Effect of mergers on competition and prices
PE and value creation

Various notes on Private Equity