Corporate Finance. Module 3, Winter 2005

Syllabus: in English and in Russian

Exam with solutions

Plan of the lectures

Lecture notes: lectures 1-2, 5 (Black-Scholes approach to valuation of real options and equity)

Lecture slides: 1 2 3 4-5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Questions to be discussed a the guest lecture

Quiz questions discussed during the lectures

List of concepts required for the exam

Seminar 1: problems and solutions

Seminar 2: problems and solutions, real option case on the excess capacity (description and Excel file with simulations)

Seminar 3: problems and solutions

Seminar 4: problems and solutions

Seminar 5: problems and solutions

Seminar 6: problems and solutions

Home assignments: HA1 and data, HA2 and solution of 2.2, HA3 with data and solution of 3.1, HA4

 

Supplementary materials

Black-Scholes approach to real option valuation: problems and solutions (by A. Damodaran)

Use of real options in the oil industry, with the stress on the Monte-Carlo analysis (by M. Dias)

Comparative cross-country tables on the cost of capital

Conditions on the equivalence of the APV, FTE, and WACC approaches

Roell, 1996, The decision to go public: An overview, European Economic Review 40, 1071-1081.

Радыгин, А.Д., СЛИЯНИЯ И ПОГЛОЩЕНИЯ В КОРПОРАТИВНОМ СЕКТОРЕ (ОСНОВНЫЕ ПОДХОДЫ И ЗАДАЧИ РЕГУЛИРОВАНИЯ) Вопросы экономики 12, 2002.

M&A in Russia in 2004

IPO in Russia

IPO АФК Система

Лазарева, О.В., Рачинский, А.А., Ружанская, Л.С., Методическое пособие по курсу «КОРПОРАТИВНОЕ УПРАВЛЕНИЕ», раздел 2, 2003.

Radygin, Entov, Turuntseva, and Gontmakher, 2003, Main trends and specifics of corporate governance in Russia.

Standard&Poors, Инфраструктура корпоративного управления в России, 2004.

 

Last-year materials

Plan of the lectures

Lecture slides (handouts): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Full versions of the lecture slides: 4 5 6 7 9 11 12 13

Mid-term exam with solutions

Final exam with solutions

 

Useful links

Aswath Damodaran (Stern School of Business) on Corporate finance: lecture notes, slides, cases, problems and solutions

Resources for “Modern Corporate Finance” by Shapiro and Balbirer: slides, cases, and problems (you need to register)

Lecture notes by RAI

RWJ slides