FIN545B Asset Pricing II

• Topics

  This course is a PhD level course on advanced asset pricing, both theoretical and empirical. Topics include time-series and cross-sectional properties of asset returns, financial frictions, limits to arbitrage in financial markets and intermediary asset pricing. The objective of the course is to review the most recent research in asset pricing. That is, central to the course is reading current research papers to generate ideas for future research including dissertation topics.

• Learning outcome

  After the successful completion of this course students can:

  Knowledge

  • describe the core ideas of seminal research papers in this field
  • evaluate the potential of current research in asset pricing

  Skills

  • formulate empirical tests of asset pricing models
  • implement and test asset pricing models

  General competence

  • critically review and discuss research papers
  • identify promising research ideas in the asset pricing literature
  • replicate papers on asset pricing
  • carry out research at the frontier of asset pricing at high international standards

• Teaching

  This course is supposed to be a highly interactive where students will present research papers which then will be further discussed by the audience under the guidance of the teacher.

• Restricted access

  • PhD candidates at NHH
  • PhD candidates at Norwegian institutions

• Required prerequisites

  The prerequisites are a PhD level course in theoretical asset pricing, a PhD level course in empirical asset pricing, as well as some exposure to econometrics.

• Assessment

  Individual oral presentations of two research papers (100%). The presentations should include a summary as well as a critical evaluation of the research papers.

• Grading Scale

  Pass/Fail

• Literature

  John H. Cochrane, Asset Pricing: Revised Edition; Princeton University Press, 2005.

  Campbell, John Y., Andrew W. Lo, and A. Craig MacKinlay, The Econometrics of Financial Markets, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

  John Y. Campbell, 2017, Financial Decisions and Markets; Princeton University Press, 2017.