Fin 419 Financial Data Analytics & Modeling

Applies analytical tools to analyze big data around financial issues faced by analysts, corporate managers, fund managers, and investors. Lectures and cases/projects reinforce concepts and provide the foundation to analyze real financial problems around such issues of estimating stock returns; stock risk; the effects of anti-takeover policies on corporate innovation; the influence of CSR ratings on firms’ market values; and the impacts of management compensation and board governance on firm performance.