Principles of finance

Graduate course (1st year), Teaching assistant for Prof. Erwan Morellec, EPFL, 2022

This course provides a framework for understanding key concepts in finance such as the valuation of firms, projects and securities such as stocks and bonds, portfolio decisions, investment and financing decisions within firms, and derivatives. I also was a T.A. for this course in 2021.

Content

  1. Introduction to finance
  2. Arbitrage, discounting, and the term structure of interest rates
  3. Introduction to the valuation of bonds and stocks
  4. Risk and return
  5. Capital Budgeting
  6. Capital Structure Decisions
  7. Financial derivatives

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