The application of empirical finance in stock market
Empirical finance focuses on the use of financial measurement technology to analyze the practical problems in the financial market. Empirical financial research is a “discovery” process. The discovery is mainly based on the financial phenomenon itself, not on what we want to find from the financial phenomenon. Including portfolio theory and asset allocation, asset pricing and factor model, market efficiency, exchange rate and interest rate forecasting, value at risk(VaR), etc. Empirical financial research is a process of observing, explaining and forecasting the financial phenomena.
The course is an introduction to some major topics in empirical analysis. Its purpose is to enable students to understand the problems, methods and conclusions of current empirical research on financial markets. Will focus on the stock market. And the emphasis will be placed on the empirical results and its analysis.
Senior High school students and College Students
Students majoring in finance, economics, financial engineering and other business related majors; Students interested in investment, financial management and stock market
Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School
Professor Rau is the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. He is also a past president of the European Finance Association, and a past editor of Financial Management. He is a founder and director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN).
Professor Rau was Principal at Barclays Global Investors, then the largest asset manager in the world, in San Francisco from 2008-2009. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Review, the Quarterly Journal of Finance, among others. His research has frequently been covered by the popular press including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist, among others.
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