Master of Science in Finance (Doctoral Programme)

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-1

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Question what is distinctive about “science”
2. Identify the different types of management research
3. Distinguish the different philosophical assumptions in management research
4. Discover the different steps of any research process
5. Clarify the sources of low replicability
6. Implement exact and conceptual replications
7. Implement reproducibility by adopting open science methods

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-2

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Characterize the strength and limitations of different models
2. Describe some of the challenges of studying management theories
3. Understand the basic toolkit of non-cooperative game theory and the scope for applications.
4. Identify the main results of agency theory and its applications to organizational design, governance and related issues
5. Survey the scope and stakes of Behavioral Decision Theory for management research
6. Familiarize with major aspects of Social Psychology such as social influence and motivated reasoning

Prerequisite

Library databases; Science definition and the scientific method; Required pre-readings.

 

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-3

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Review and synthetize fundamental themes in a field of research
2. Characterize what makes a good literature review
3. Describe and point out some of the problems with academic literature
4. Critically reflect on your own approach to reading papers and to searching academic literatures
5. Be aware of the different types of reviews and their respective strengths and weaknesses
6. Are able to make informed decisions (regarding approach, scope, structure, etc.) when planning a literature review
7. Translate academic insights into everyday language

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-4

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Recognize main qualitative methods and comprehend major challenges of data collection and analysis
2. Explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative research 
3. Review qualitative research papers
4. Explain what topics are pertinent to study with a qualitative research approach
5. Distinguish how to interpret findings from a qualitative research and how to assess their validity
6. Collect and use qualitative data for exploratory studies

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-5

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Select the appropriate explanatory method in accordance with the research problem and the available data
2. Determine the quality of used multi-item measurement instruments in quantitative research
3. Test a multiple linear regression, to assess whether the results can be trusted, and to analyze them
4. Test a binary logistic regression and analyze the results
5. Develop a mediation and moderation analyses thanks to a regression approach
6. Implement the Johnson-Neyman technique and the floodlight analysis

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-6

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Explain the interest of experimental methods for research in management and business 
2. Survey experimental research papers 
3. Design an experiment

Code TSMDP-Y1-02-FIN1

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Explain how key frictions (moral hazard, asymmetric information) can be captured in an economic model.
2. Assess how such frictions affect financial arrangements of a corporation.
3. Describe how selected empirical evidence relates to model predictions.
4. Build on existing models so as to capture new effects, with a view to being able to develop one’s own research.

Code TSMDP-Y1-02-FIN2

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Identify key frictions that prevent the efficient aggregation of information in market prices.
2. Explain how such frictions can be captured in a mathematical model of trade with asymmetric information.
3. Solve the corresponding models discussed in class.
4. Interpret code and data policy for publication in top-tier journals.
5. Search and review financial market and economic data.
6. Assess a core identification challenge in financial markets research.
7. Design a robust empirical strategy in financial markets research.

Code TSMDP-Y1-02-FIN3

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Explain the latest theories, and experimental or empirical results in each of the six topics covered in the course
2. Synthesize the key issues and findings of a research topic
3. Critically present and assess the scientific contribution of a research article relative to the overall finance literature

Prerequisite

None.

 

Code TSMDP-Y1-03-FIN1

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language English

Code TSMDP-Y1-03-FIN2

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language English

Code TSMDP-Y1-03-FIN3

ECTS 2.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 12.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

 

 

Code TSMDP-Y1-03-FIN4

ECTS 3.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 18.00

Teaching Language English