UEH PhD

The unit of Corporate Finance at doctoral level is developed as a combination of both seminar and course work. As a course work, it provides doctoral students a review of main theories which play as foundation of corporate finance, corporate governance, and behavioral corporate finance. Students are supposed to demonstrate their in-depth understanding of theories in finance that drive financial decision making within organization as well as prospect and expected utility theories, framing and mental accounting, heuristics and biases, and overconfidence that make those decisions distorted and biased. As a seminar, the unit aims to equips doctoral students with a review on contemporary issues in research of corporate finance, corporate governance and behavioral corporate finance.  Students in class are split into groups for presentation and leading class discussion on papers in finance research which are assigned to them at the beginning of the course. Upon a completion of this subject, students should be able to grasp the knowledges how to do a research practically as well as the main research stream in the contemporary finance literature.