Fall 2016 Course Listings (PHD)

• Accounting/Taxation
• Economics
• Finance
• Interarea
• Management and Organizations
• Marketing
• Non-Credit Courses
• Operations Management

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Accounting/Taxation

• ACCT-GB.4301 Empirical Research Accounting I (3)
  Course Description:
  
  This seminar exposes students to empirical research in financial accounting. It covers a wide range of topics including econometric and methodological issues, security prices and accounting information, and earnings management.

  Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
  01	W  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm	09/07-12/14	Ryan,S	PhD Students only

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Economics

• ECON-GB.3335 Microeconomics: Theory and Applications (3)
  Course Description:
  
  For doctoral students whose programs do not include advanced courses in economics. Emphasizes concepts and techniques of economic analysis that are likely to be useful in the students' doctoral dissertation research. Develops key concepts and techniques of microeconomics and then applies them to a number of current research issues in accounting, information systems, management, and marketing (and possibly other areas, depending on the students enrolled). In each case, the course explores the relevant microeconomic theory and some of the empirical literature. This course is an alternative to B30.3334 as the core requirement in microeconomics.

  Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
  01	M  09:00 am - 12:00 pm	09/12-12/12	Cabral,L	PhD Students only

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  • ECON-GB.3351 Econometrics I (3)
    Course Description:
    
    The theory of estimation and inference in econometrics. Covers finite sample results for the classical linear model, as well as asymptotic results for single equation models. Topics include linear and nonlinear least squares, generalized least squares, panel data, instrumental variable techniques, and generalized method of moment estimation. Heavy emphasis is given to empirical application.

    Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
    01	TR  12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	09/06-12/08	Greene,W	PhD Students only

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  • ECON-GB.3360 Topics in Economics: Industrial Organization (3)
    Course Description:
    
    This is the first course in the Graduate-level Industrial
    Organization (IO) sequence, and aims to give PhD students a solid grounding in understanding the structure of markets and the strategic behavior of firms and their consumers. The goal is to familiarize students with selected theoretical topics in industrial organization and help them prepare for further studies of empirical IO courses and start their own research agendas.

    Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
    01	R  11:30 am - 1:30 pm	09/08-12/08	Conlon,C	PhD Students only

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    Finance

    • FINC-GB.2331 Financial Theory I (3)
      Course Description:
      
      This is the first course in the theory of financial decision making. Focus is primarily on individual decision making under certainty and uncertainty. Topics include valuation theory, asset selection, general portfolio theory, asset pricing theory, and general equilibrium in financial markets.

      Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
      01	W  2:30 pm - 5:30 pm	09/07-12/14	Lynch,A/Van Nieuwerburgh,S	PhD Students only

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    • FINC-GB.2332 Financial Theory II (3)
      Course Description:
      
      This is the second course in the theory of financial decision making. Focus is primarily on methods of empirical financial economics. Standard econometric procedures and the newest techniques in estimating procedures are studied in the context of applications to financial asset pricing and to corporate finance issues.

      Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
      01	M  1:30 pm - 4:30 pm	09/12-12/12	John,K/Mueller,H	PhD Students only

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    • FINC-GB.4210 CORPORATE RESEARCH:FINANC (2)

      Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
      01		09/06-12/14	Acharya,V

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    • FINC-GB.4305 EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION (3)
      Course Description:
      
      This course surveys leading academic research in executive compensation and related areas of managerial incentives, such as stock ownership and the threat of dismissal. Evaluation will be based on a series of approximately 6 data exercises and referee reports due intermittently throughout the course.
      
      

      Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
      01	T  10:30 am - 11:50 am	09/06-12/06	Yermack,D	PhD Students only

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    • FINC-GB.4318 Seminar in Finance Faculty Research (3)

      Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
      01	W  3:00 pm - 4:20 pm	09/07-12/14	Elton,E

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    • FINC-GB.4388 FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS (3)
      Course Description:
      
      This course focuses on Financial Econometrics which is the set of statistical tools that are most helpful in the analysis of financial markets. The course develops tools for estimating volatility and correlation of financial returns with applications to asset pricing, risk management, portfolio selection and derivative pricing. Extreme Value Distributions, Copulas and Systemic Risk are topics that will be studied. The course will use accessible data sources and software and will have homework, a research paper, and a final exam. The ideal preparation is Econometrics I and Fin Theory I or better.

      Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
      01	T  4:00 pm - 7:00 pm	09/06-12/06	Engle,R	PhD Students only

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    Interarea

    • INTA-GB.4388 Behavioral Research Methods (3)
      Course Description:
      
      This seminar covers basic research methods in the social sciences, including surveys, laboratory and field experiments, and the use of multi-method approaches to test theory. We will also discuss Philosophy of Science issues.

      Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
      01	M  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm	09/12-12/12	Raghubir,P	PhD Students only

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      Management and Organizations

      • MGMT-GB.3191 PROFESSION SEMINAR (1.5)

        Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
        01		09/06-12/14	Milliken,F

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        • MGMT-GB.3381 ADV RESRCH IN ORGNZ BEHAV (3)
          Course Description:
          
          The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the theories, methods, and approaches that characterize micro-organizational behavior (OB) research within the field of management. We will explore classic and contemporary theories, enduring controversies, and emerging empirical research. This exploration will include examining, dissecting, and analyzing past and current research on a variety of major topics in OB. The goal is to cover the highlights of the field and develop the skills necessary for evaluating, analyzing, and integrating research on any topic in OB and beyond.

          Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
          01	W  3:30 pm - 6:00 pm	09/07-12/14	Pettit,N	PhD Students only

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          Marketing

          • MKTG-GB.4391 Quantitative Applications in Marketing I (3)
            Course Description:
            
            This course acquaints students with the state of the art in mathematical marketing models. The focus is on models of consumer and market behavior. In particular, utility theory, discrete choice models, stochastic models, multidimensional scaling, and hierarchical decision making are studied. These models are examined in the context of how consumers and the market react to marketing stimuli. The readings are drawn from leading marketing journals.

            Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
            01	FR  09:00 am - 12:00 pm	09/09-12/09	Muller,E	PhD Students only

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          • MKTG-GB.4392 Quantitative Applications in Marketing II (3)
            Course Description:
            
            Acquaints students with the state of the art in mathematical marketing models. The focus is on managerial models of advertising allocations, channel design, sales force allocation, sales promotion, pricing, product design, test markets, and competitive positioning. The readings are mainly drawn from leading marketing journals. Students develop their own models and papers on a topic of interest.

            Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
            01	W  09:00 am - 12:00 pm	09/07-12/07	Erdem,T	PhD Students only

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          Non-Credit Courses

          • NOCR-GB.4000 DOCTORAL BASIC MATH PREP (0.0)

            Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
            01		09/06-12/14	Gilbukh,S

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            Operations Management

            • OPMG-GB.3321 Stochastic Processes (3)
              Course Description:
              
              This Doctoral course will serve as an introductory course to stochastic processes. We will closely follow the book "Stochastic Processes" by Ross. The course will begin with a one week review of basic concepts in probability and then proceed to the study of Poisson processes, renewal processes, discrete time Markov chains, and finally, continuous time Markov chains. The are no prerequisites for the course, however, a calculus based understanding of probability is helpful. Courses in analysis and measure theory are not required. A tentative course outline is as follows.

              Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
              01	R  09:00 am - 12:00 pm	09/08-12/08	Reed,J	PhD Students only

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            • OPMG-GB.4330 LINEAR PROGRAMMING (3)
              Course Description:
              
              This course introduces students to the theory, methodologies and applications of optimization. We mostly focus on linear programming, but we also discuss more variant mathematical programming methods such as integer, convex and semi definite programming. We will see the applications of such tools in different areas including but not limited to logistics, transportation, revenue management, network optimization, inventory management, marketing, and finance.

              Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
              01	FR  1:30 pm - 4:30 pm	09/09-12/09	Asadpour,A	PhD Students only

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