Selected Topics in Fin and Acc

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This seminar covers selected topics in empirical Finance and Accounting research. The objectives of this course are to (i) provide an introduction to the basic building blocks of market-based research (ii) enable an understanding of the economic theory-based motivation for empirical hypotheses, and (iii) provide an introduction to, and evaluation of the empirical methods employed to test those hypotheses. The course seeks to prepare students for research careers in archival-empirical research.