BA 953
Corporate Finance Theory - Finance III
Joao lucas Thereze ferreira, S. Viswanathan
Description from DukeHub
This course looks at the foundations of the theory in corporate finance. Topics covered include adverse selection, contracting and agency problems, capital structure, initial public offerings, collateral and corporate finance, bubbles and corporate financing decisions, banking and bank runs, and coordination failures. Applications in corporate finance include optimal capital structure, voting, debt regeneration, investment decisions and market valuation, executive compensation, bank runs, initial public offerings, and secondary public offerings, collateralization and securitization.
Skills
- financedescription: "finance" and 6 more
AI-resilient: 1 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "decisions"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- No: Small, in-person format
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works