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)

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Requirements fulfilled

No source-backed degree requirement is attached to this course yet.

Official evaluation summary

4.38 / 5

Based on 21 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Data freshness

Course and evaluation data last updated 2026-08-02. Source details and limitations are documented in Data Sources and Methodology.

Instructors

Sections

  • Section 01
    Fall 2026 · Vincent Bogousslavsky · Gasson Hall 308 M 03:00PM-05:25PM · Offered