COURSE #:  430

SECTION:  72

COURSE NAME:  Finance I

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Craig Furfine

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  None

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Allen, Brealey and Myers

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principals of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  8th Edition

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #:  441

SECTION:  71

COURSE NAME:  Finance II

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Andrea Eisfeldt

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  None

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Allen, Brealey and Myers

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principals of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  8th Edition

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #:  441

SECTION:  72

COURSE NAME:  Finance II

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor David Matsa

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Prior to the first class, you should:

• Review the syllabus.

• Complete the required reading for the first class, which includes Lecture 1 and Lecture 2:

1. Read the outlines for Lecture 1 and Lecture 2 included in the course packet. For

subsequent classes, it is also important to read the appropriate lecture outlines prior to

class. We will typically cover two lectures per class.

2. Read Chapters 9 and 13 from Brealey, Myers, and Allen, Principals of Corporate

Finance.

3. Read the set of Wall Street Journal articles, entitled “Are Markets Efficient?” These

articles are included in the course packet.

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Allen, Brealey and Myers

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principals of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  8th Edition

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #:  442

SECTION:  71

COURSE NAME:  Financial Decisions

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Michael Fishman

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Read American Barrick Resources Corporation:  Managing Gold Price Risk and study questions

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  Allen, Brealey and Myers

PUBLISHER:  Mcgraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principals of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  8th Edition

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  Koller, Goedhart and Wessels

PUBLISHER:  John Wiley

TITLE:  Valuation:  Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

ED./DATE:  4th Edition

 

COURSE #:  FINC 446

SECTION:  71

COURSE NAME:  Entrepreneurial Finance

INSTRUCTOR:  Rogers

CASEPACK :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: In class assignment. Attendance at first class is mandatory. Bring calculator.

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED 

AUTHOR:  Steven Rogers

PUBLISHER:  McGraw Hill

TITLE: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Finance and Business: Wealth Creation Techniques for Growing a Business

ED./DATE:  1st ed., 2002  ISBN: 0-07-138081-7

 

 

COURSE #:  448

SECTION:  71

COURSE NAME:  Corporate Restructuring

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Timothy Thompson

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  To prepare for the first class, you should do the following:

1.            Read the Bankruptcy slides (available on the course web page).  You don’t need to print them out.  I will bring a copy to the first class.

2.            Bring your name plate the first and all subsequent classes.

3.            Sit where you want your permanent seat to be.  I will be handing out a seating chart on the first day of class.

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  None

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #:  465

SECTION:  71

COURSE NAME:  Derivative Markets I

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Costis Skiadas

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  None

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  Robert McDonald

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE:  Derivatives Markets

ED./DATE: 

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #: 430

SECTION: 71

COURSE NAME: Finance I

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Will be handed out in week 1

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Brealey, Myers and Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principals of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  8th Edition

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Optional

AUTHOR:  K. Morris and V. Morris

PUBLISHER:  Fireside

TITLE:  The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing, 1999

ED./DATE:  1999

3.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Optional

AUTHOR:  Brealey, Myers and Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principals of Corporate Finance Study Guide

ED./DATE:  8th Edition

4.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Optional

AUTHOR:  Craig Holden

PUBLISHER:  Pearson/Prentice Hall

TITLE:  Excel Modeling in Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  2nd Edition

5.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Optional

AUTHOR:  Craig Holden

PUBLISHER:  :  Pearson/Prentice Hall

TITLE:  Excel Modeling in Investments

ED./DATE:  2nd Edition

 

COURSE #: 445

SECTION:  71

COURSE NAME:  Venture Capital and Private Equity Investing

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Yael Hochberg

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  FINC 445:

Read Fenn, Liang and Prowse chapters 1,2 and 3.

Prepare the case: Yale University Investment Office: 2003. Study questions for the case follow.

Yale University Investments Office: June 2003

Read and discuss only (no writeup required)

  1. Why is Yale investing in Private Equity?
  2. How has the investment office selected, compensated and controlled private equity fund managers?
  3. How has the Investment office decided when to make private equity investments?
  4. What explains the differences between its strategy in private equity and that in other classes (e.g. real estate)?
  5. How has the investment office made international private equity investments? What explains the difference in performance of its international and domestic PE investments?
  6. How is the PE industry changing? How could Swensen’s PE strategy go wrong?
  7. What does the changing environment of the PR industry mean for Yale?
  8. Should David Swensen shift his PE strategy?

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  None

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #: 451

SECTION:  71

COURSE NAME: Money Markets and the Fed 

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Arvind Krishnamurthy

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  None

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Glen Hubbard

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE:  Money, The Financial System and the Economy

ED./DATE:  5th Edition

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: