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  • FIN 443 - Private Equity (2026-present, Simon)
  • This course provides a comprehensive overview of private equity finance. It examines the private equity industry and develops an understanding of how transactions are sourced, valued, executed, monitored, and ultimately realized, as well as how investors evaluate and commit capital to private equity funds. The course emphasizes the core concepts and practical tools used in the industry, with case analyses and lectures serving to illustrate, apply, and reinforce these ideas in realistic settings.
  • FIN 448 - Fixed Income Securities (2017-present, Simon)
  • This course offers an introduction to debt markets. It provides institutional background and introduces concepts and models used for pricing of various fixed income instruments such as fixed-coupon bonds, floating-rate notes, forwards and swaps, mortgage backed securities, and corporate debt, among others.
  • FIN 523 - Advanced Corporate Finance Theory (2024-present, Simon)
  • This is an advanced course in the dynamic aspects of the theory of the firm. The first part of the class covers dynamic corporate finance theory, specifically dynamic contingent-claim models of investment and capital structure. Next we will explore discrete time investment models used in structural estimation, and consider the role of debt maturity for firm investment and liquidity management. Finally, we will cover dynamic agency models of investment and financing, and the role of asymmetric information and market liquidity in firm investment and financing decisions.
  • FIN 511 - Continuous Time Methods in Finance (2018-2023, Simon)
  • This is an advanced course in the theory of capital markets. The first part of the course covers classical continuous time models of no-arbitrage pricing, portfolio choice, and equilibrium pricing. The second part of the class presents recent developments in consumption- and production-based equilibrium models, intermediary asset pricing, credit risk and other topics.
  • FNCE250 - Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation (2015-2017, Wharton)
  • This course covers the finance of technological innovation, with a focus on the valuation tools useful in the venture capital industry. These tools include the "venture capital method," comparables analysis, discounted cash flow analysis, contingent-claims analysis. The primary audience for this course is finance majors interested in careers in venture capital or in R&D-intensive companies in health care or information technology.