MFIN 8863 Ph.D. Seminar: Empirical Asset Pricing
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.
Course overview
- Department
- Finance
- School
- CSOM
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Graduate
- Offered
- Every Fall
Catalog details
- Prerequisites
- introductory doctoral-level course (or have equivalent knowledge)
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 4.38 / 5 · Very Good
- Instructor rating
- 4.54 / 5 · Excellent
- Terms evaluated
- 5
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | Pierluigi Balduzzi | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.3 | 4.3 | — | 4 of 4 |
| Fall 2024 | Pierluigi Balduzzi | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.8 | — | 4 of 4 |
| Fall 2023 | Pierluigi Balduzzi | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 7 of 7 |
| Fall 2022 | Pierluigi Balduzzi | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4–6 hrs/week | 4 of 4 |
| Spring 2022 | Pierluigi Balduzzi | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 4.5 | — | 2 of 4 |