Master 2024/2025

Mentor's Seminar

Type: Compulsory course (Strategic Corporate Finance)

Area of studies: Finance and Credit

Delivered by: School of Finance

Where: Faculty of Economic Sciences

When: 2 year, 1-4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Anastasia N. Stepanova

Master’s programme: Strategic Corporate Finance

Language: English

ECTS credits: 6

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This seminar focuses on the role of personality in finance. How does the CEO's personality affect the company? What irrational decisions do investors make depending on the weather or their childhood experiences? Who is prone to short-termism and who has a long investment horizon? How does all this affect innovation in the company? And what do we know about behavioral biases and corporate governance in emerging markets? We will discuss all of this during the seminar.This seminar is worth choosing for those who already have a good understanding of classical finance and want to get a broader view of decision-making mechanisms in business and investments. The seminar is useful for those who are building a career in corporations and banks as well as in asset management.

Learning Objectives

• To get individual advice on the research and professional activities

Expected Learning Outcomes

• The student realises the value of the exact courses and activities for herself.
• The student selects a research area, appropriate seminars, and reaches an agreement with a potential supervisor.
• Student performs a wide range of research tasks on various industries and topics, from collecting market statistics to modeling the market and developing forecasts

Course Contents

• Mentoring on the choice of the courses
• Mentoring on the choice of research direction
• Mentoring on the research and practical activities

Assessment Elements

• Предзащита / Predefense
• Защита project proposal
• Research presentations
  all types of class activity proposed by mentor

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 4th module
  1 * Защита project proposal + 1 * Защита project proposal
• 2024/2025 4th module
  maximum out of 2 values (predefense grade; (0,7*predefense grade + 0.3*research presentation))

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Meir Statman. (2019). A Second Generation Behavioral Finance. World Scientific Book Chapters, 3. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813279469_0001
• Oldekop, J. A., Fontana, L. B., Grugel, J., Roughton, N., Adu, A. E. A., Bird, G. K., Dorgan, A., Vera Espinoza, M. A., Wallin, S., Hammett, D., Agbarakwe, E., Agrawal, A., Asylbekova, N., Azkoul, C., Bardsley, C., Bebbington, A. J., Carvalho, S., Chopra, D., Christopoulos, S., & Crewe, E. (2016). 100 key research questions for the post-2015 development agenda. Development Policy Review, 34(1), 55–82. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12147
• Shiller, R. J. (2013). Finance and the Good Society. Princeton, N. J: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=582677

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Nicholas Barberis, & Richard Thaler. (2002). A Survey of Behavioral Finance. NBER Working Papers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.p.nbr.nberwo.9222
• Richard H. Thaler. (2018). Behavioral economics: Past, present, and future. Revista de Economía Institucional, (38), 9. https://doi.org/10.18601/01245996.v20n38.02

Authors

• Стародумова Алина Александровна
• STEPANOVA Anastasiia NIKOLAEVNA