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Finance

Visiting Associate Professor of Finance

Portrait of Erez Levy, Faculty at the Kellogg School of Management

Erez Levy’s research and teaching interests are in the fields of empirical corporate finance and investments (In particular Fintech). His recent work covers a variety of topics such as the impact of investment horizon on investment decision and the effects of inversion. Professor Levy received his Ph.D. in Finance from Tel Aviv University. He also holds a B.A. in Economics, LL.B., and an M.B.A. Professor Levy received the Tel Aviv University Provost’s award for excellence in teaching in 2016 and received the Outstanding Professor of the Year award from the Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University, in 2017-2020."


Capital Markets (FINC-450-0)

This course develops the key concepts necessary to understand financial markets using, where possible, the perspective of personal investing. Some of the personal investing topics covered include: Retirement planning, the cost of investing in mutual funds, how to select mutual funds, how to measure a portfolio's performance, factor investing, and arbitrage trading.

This class provides students with a structure for thinking about financial markets and the pricing of financial securities. The financial securities we study and price include stocks, bonds, futures, and options.

The class teaches how to address investment problems in a systematic manner using case studies. They are used to examine issues in the selection and implementation of investment strategies. In the process, the class examines current academic work about financial markets and their applications to investing.

Finance I (FINC-430-0)

Finance 1 answers managers' and investors' most fundamental finance question: how should a project or an asset be valued? Managers must determine the value of building a factory, entering a new market, or purchasing an entire firm when deciding in which projects to invest. Similarly, individuals must assess the value of financial securities to decide how to invest their wealth. Using a combination of lectures and business cases, Finance 1 teaches the discounted cash flow and multiples methods to value projects or assets. These valuation tools lay the foundation for all work in capital markets and corporate finance.

Prerequisite: Business Analytics I (DECS-430-5)

Corequisite/Prerequisite: Accounting for Decision Making (ACCT-430) and Business Analytics II (DECS 431-0)

Corporate Finance (BUS_INST-304-0)

Effects of time and uncertainty on valuation and decision making. Discounting techniques, stock and bond valuation, capital budgeting, firm valuation, capital asset pricing model, financial options. May not receive credit for both this course and ECON 360-1. Not for students who have previously taken KELLG_FE 310-0. Prerequisites: ECON 201-0 and ECON 202-0; STAT 210-0 or equivalent; MATH 218-1 or MATH 220-1; and BUS_INST 301-0.