Spring 2025
ECON 138 102 - DIS 102
Financial and Behavioral Economics
Bernardo Lembi Ramalho Maciel
Class #:21375
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Economics
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
0
Enrolled: 25
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 25
Waitlist Max: 8
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
9 to 8 hours of outside work hours per week, 0 to 1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week, and 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week.
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Course Catalog Description
This course is an advanced class in Financial Economics. Topics include moral hazard (principal-agent problems, free cash flow), asymmetric Information (security issurance, dividends), mergers and acquisitions (theory, managerial incentives), corporate governance (separation of ownership and control, internal capital markets, superstar CEOs), corporate fraud (earnings manipulations). This class emphasizes the economic underpinning of financial decision-making and is mathematically and technically demanding. You will be required to do some empirical homework using STATA.
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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