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Corporate Finance
Introduction 1. The instructor
2. Administrative details
3. Preliminaries
4. Why corporate finance?
5. Aims of the course
6. This course and corporate finance
7. Course contents
http://www.wiwi.euv-frankfurt-o.de/keiber
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Corporate Finance
Introduction
Administrative details
• Contact
– keiber@euv-frankfurt-o.de
– HG 227 office hours, Wednesdays 11:00am-12:00pm
• register by sending an e-mail to keiber@euv-frankfurt-o.de
• Target group
– Students with strong interest in
• derivative securities
• the application of option pricing theory to corporate financial decision making
• understanding credit risk
• further specializing in finance
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Corporate Finance
Introduction
Administrative details
• Registration
– Teaching notes (Moodle)
– Evaluation (Moodle)
– Exam (HIS)
• Teaching notes
– Password protection
– Some (experience: speed, attention)
• Readings
– See the module catalogue but …
• Grading
– Written exam
• July dd, 2018, hh:mmxm – hh:mmxm
• Resit, mmm dd, 2018, hh:mmxm – hh:mmxm
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Corporate Finance
Introduction
Administrative details
• Schedule
– Lectures (June 4, 2018 – July 6, 2018)
• Tuesdays, 04:00pm – 08:00pm c.t.
• Wednesdays, 09:00am – 11:00am c.t.
• Wednesday, July 4, 2018, no class
– Tutorials (June 4, 2018 – July 6, 2018)
• Wednesdays, 12:00pm – 02:00pm c.t. AND 02:00pm – 04:00pm c.t.
• Thursday, July 5, 2018, 11:00am – 01:00pm c.t. AND 02:00pm – 04:00pm c.t.
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Corporate Finance
Introduction
Preliminaries
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Corporate Finance
Introduction
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Corporate Finance
Introduction
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Corporate Finance
Introduction
Value and
Unspecified Risk
Capital Budgeting
Capital Structure
and Cost of Capital
Capital structure
Valuation
Mixed
debt-equity
Dividend Policy
Options
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Corporate Finance
Introduction
Course contents
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Corporate Finance
Introduction
Course contents
• Option pricing approaches (BM, Chap. 21; CW, Chaps. 8, 13; CWS, Chap. 15;
RWJ, Chap. 22)
– Binomial option pricing
– Black and Scholes option pricing model
• Real options (BM, Chap. 22; CW, Chaps. 12; CWS, Chap. 9; RWJ, Chap. 23)
– Basic idea of real options and analogy to financial options
– Types of real options and valuation in discrete time
– Option to defer: valuation in continuous time
– Caveats and pitfalls in the application of option pricing models
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