MFIN8863 · Finance

Ph.D. Seminar: Empirical Asset Pricing

Carroll School of Management

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Pierluigi Balduzzi

Professor, Finance, Carroll School of Management

5 evaluations for this course

Instructor: 4.4
Course: 4.3

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Pierluigi Balduzzi

Professor, Finance, Carroll School of Management

5 evaluations for this course

Instructor: 4.4
Course: 4.3

About this course

This course is for second year Ph.D. students of finance. The course is intended to generate enthusiastic, high quality intellectual activity around the course material. Focuses on the development of skills that will help students become conversant enough with basic theory and the current literature on asset pricing that would permit them to read critically and analyze papers in this area, develop enough expertise in selected empirical methods in finance that they will be able to use these techniques in their research, and to find potential thesis topics.

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OrganizationHow well the course was organized: 4.52 / 5
ChallengeHow intellectually challenging students found it: 4.94 / 5
AttendanceHow necessary attendance was: 4.56 / 5
AssignmentsHow helpful assignments were: 4.58 / 5

Weekly effort: ~5 hours

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Evaluation history 5 terms

All available terms for MFIN8863. Numerical averages use the five-point scale.
Term	Evaluations	Course rating	Instructor rating
Fall 2024	1	4.8	4.8
Fall 2023	1	4.4	4.6
Fall 2022	1	4.0	4.3
Spring 2022	1	4.5	4.5
Fall 2020	1	4.0	4.0