MGT 6121 Application of Empirical Methods in Finance

3 units
Management
Telfer School of Management
Quantitative methods for testing financial theories. Experience in rigorous assessment of financial data and models. Topics include testing of asset-pricing models, event-study methodology, modelling of financial data (e.g., ARMA, GARCH), (non-linear) quantile regressions, GMM, causality, natural experiments, matching and selection models. Course delivered through practical examples and extensive use of a statistical software (e.g., EVIEWS, STATA).

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Seminar

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Winter

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