Gene Amromin
Gene Amromin

FINANCE
Lecturer of Finance

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Gene Amromin is a Senior Financial Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His research interests include household financial decision-making, housing markets, taxation and corporate finance.

His work studies the links between variations in tax regimes and capital structure and asset valuation. He is currently researching the formation of investor expectations of stock market returns, links between mortgage contract design and performance, and effectiveness of housing policy programs.

Before joining the Chicago Fed in 2005, Amromin was on the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. During 2011-2012, he served as a senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Amromin received a B.A. in economics from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. Prior to graduate study, he worked as an economic consultant in Chicago.
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Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Finance II (FINC-441-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Analytical Finance, Finance.

This course is the sequel to FINC-430. The primary objective is to examine the financial decisions of firms with regard to their capital budgeting decisions (which investments to make), dividend decisions and capital structure decisions (how to raise capital). We first examine these decisions in an idealized frictionless world in which the firm cannot change its value by altering its dividend or capital structure policy. We then explore the effect of frictions (e.g. taxes, bankruptcy costs, inefficient or uncompetitive financial markets, or self-interested managers) on the firm's financial decisions and how these decisions can affect a firm's value. Prerequisites: FINC-430. Corequisite: DECS-434 or equivalent. ACCT-430 and MECN-430 are recommended.