Financial and Behavioral Economics, 2025 Spring ECON 138 001 LEC 001

2025 Spring ECON 138 001 LEC 001

This course is an advanced class in Financial Economics. Topics include moral hazard (principal-agent problems, free cash flow), asymmetric Information (security issurance, dividends), mergers and acquisitions (theory, managerial incentives), corporate governance (separation of ownership and control, internal capital markets, superstar CEOs), corporate fraud (earnings manipulations). This class emphasizes the economic underpinning of financial decision-making and is mathematically and technically demanding. You will be required to do some empirical homework using STATA.

Course Times
MoWe 6:30pm - 7:59pm
Course Location
Valley Life Sciences 2040
Course CCN
21373
Course Level
Undergraduate
Course Units
4
Section Type
Lecture
Course number
138
Instructors
Chen Lian

Instructor(s)

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Assistant Professor
FinanceMacroeconomicsMonetary Theory | Teaching