ERIM Research Clinic Finance


Aims

  • Become familiar with state-of-the-art research methodology, data and software in finance. 
  • Get an overview of an academic career in Finance.
  • Write a referee paper on a selected finance topic.
  • To familiarize the student with the research done by top ERIM researchers (within and outside the F&A programme).

Information

This course introduces the student to research methodologies, data and software in corporate finance, investments, market microstructure and asset pricing. We cover research data available at EUR and students familiarize themselves with efficient ways of processing large financial databases using SAS. Moreover, students will be trained in using LaTeX for text formatting papers that involve many equations. Another important aspect of the course is to get an idea of how an academic career looks like and how to anticipate on important decisions to be made.

As a second part of this course, students will be introduced to the research that is done within ERIM over all programmes. This is done by a series of two-hour seminars given by ERIM members and fellows. In each seminar, recent research is presented. Attendance of these seminars is obligatory.

Assessment

Take-home assignment

Materials

  • Delwiche and Slaughter (2012). The little SAS book: a primer (5th edition)

Additional info

More information and detailed timetables can be found here.

ERIM Research Master students can register for this course via SIN Online.

This course is not open for external (non-ERIM) participants.