This subject aims to expose doctoral students to cutting-edge scholarship in current research issues and skills in finance. It covers theoretical and empirical papers relating to efficient markets and behavioural finance hypotheses, event study methodology, operating performance and abnormal returns measurement, payout policy, capital structure, equity issuance, corporate governance, signalling and information asymmetry, asset pricing, and endogeneity issues. The subject will also develop high-level writing, speaking and critical thinking skills required by students to undertake finance research. Upon successful completion of this subject,students will develop a framework for addressing research propositions, obtain in-depth knowledge of finance theory and practice, understand the interface between theoretical models and empirical tests of these models, and gain the ability to develop and resolve finance research questions and communicate the results.

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