This is a research seminar in the PhD program on a selected topic. Students in their second through fourth years of studies are required to enroll in a research seminar course each year. Students will contribute to the seminar series by inviting guest speakers and presenting their own work. Students may repeat this course for further credit under a different topic. Graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

Students will be required to pass a comprehensive exam by the end of summer term of the second year of the program. This will include written examinations in research methods and theories. Graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Prerequisite: Enrollment in PhD program.

Thesis Proposal. Graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

Graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Prerequisite: Enrollment in PhD program.

Econometrics and statistics provide the tools of choice to carry out quantitative research. With a focus on laying the groundwork for industry as well as academic applications, much stress is placed on fostering a good understanding of the uses, limitations and potential pitfalls of the most commonly employed methods. Prerequisite: Students need permission from academic unit.

Econometrics provides the tools required to conduct advanced quantitative research in business. The course focuses on advanced techniques tailored to address complex research problems in asset pricing, corporate finance, and financial accounting. These techniques build on generalized least squares, maximum likelihood, and generalized methods of moments estimation to provide the state-of-art tools needed to analyze increasingly challenging business data. Prerequisite: BUS 890 or equivalent.

The focus is on how to design, evaluate and conduct quantitative research as used in academic business publications. Major topics in this course include the notion of constructs, reliability and validity in measurement, scale development processes, data sources and sampling considerations, types of associations among variables (linear, curvilinear, mediation, and moderation), levels of analysis, and experimental and quasi-experimental design. Corequisite: BUS 971.

Students will become familiar with the nature of qualitative research, and learn many of the methods that fall under the rubric of qualitative inquiry. The course will also provide students with the opportunity to start to develop the skills required for the collection, analysis, theorizing, and writing up of qualitative data. Corequisite: BUS 970.

Continuous time is used for the celebrated Black-Scholes Model for pricing derivatives and is also often the most intuitive way to tackle asset pricing, term structure theory and portfolio selection. Through first laying the foundations in discrete time to illustrate the basic mechanisms, continuous time is gently introduced by working out its analogs that form a cornerstone of much of modern finance. Prerequisite: Students need permission from the program before entering the research stream.

Students are exposed to recent developments in the asset pricing literature. The focus is on continuous time theoretical models and their empirical tests. Students develop the skills required to understand, replicate and extend academic papers in this area. The topics covered may include the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and the arbitrage pricing model (APT), consumption and production based dynamic general equilibrium, dynamic models of the term structure of interest rates, and other selected topics. Prerequisite: BUS 891 or equivalent.

Students are exposed to advanced analysis of decision making at the corporate level. We discuss academic research in corporate finance and cover both theoretical models and empirical tests. The course is methodology oriented in that students are required to master necessary methodological tools for each topic. The topics covered may include capital structure, distribution policy, financial intermediation, market for corporate control, product market and corporate finance interactions, and other selected topics. Prerequisite: BUS 891 or equivalent.

Covers key theoretical perspectives used by researchers in business management disciplines. The course is focused on theories relevant to entities at the 'macro' level - firms, industries and societies. These theories typically explain the behaviour of these entities, interactions among them, and the outcomes of such behaviour at the firm, industrial and societal level, and to some extent, their impacts on 'micro'-level entitles such as individuals and groups.

Covers key theoretical perspectives used by researchers in business and management disciplines. The focus is on theories relevant to entities at the "micro"-level (i.e., individuals and groups) most of which are grounded in different branches of psychology. Naturally, the emphasis is on their applications for business. We will also address these theories' implications for teams and organization, and, where applicable, to entities at higher levels of analysis.

An examination of the economic theory of market prices with reference to behavior of individual households, firms, and markets. Special emphasis will be placed on the implications of individual behavior for the allocation of resources. Offered once a year. Prerequisite: ECON 331.

The effective use of empiricism, positivism, and interpretive explanations in generating, defending and clarifying logically rigorous arguments is explored. Participants from diverse fields (marketing, international business, management studies, accounting, policy analysis, finance, etc.) within the administrative sciences will look at the processes which have guided theory development and theory testing within their field of inquiry. Attention will focus on what criteria are used to assess the adequacy of explanations and useful theories. The seminar seeks to advance the participants' interest in putting theory into practice. Prerequisite: Enrollment in PhD program.

This seminar is intended to support doctoral students in the early stages of the development of their dissertations. Practical and conceptual issues with respect to the integration of theory, research design, and methodology will be explored. The seminar will provide a forum for students to share their dissertation work in progress, and learn from each other with respect to theoretical, analytical, and methodological problems, successes and trade-offs. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the PhD program or consent of the instructor.

Students will be exposed to the broad world of academia, from presenting and providing constructive feedback on papers, to conferences and journal publishing and refereeing, while being exposed to an introduction to a range of research techniques and data analysis. Graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Prerequisite: Enrollment in PhD program.

The course following ECON 802 and 803 which covers such topics as equilibrium theory, axiomatic analysis, stability analysis, income distribution, dynamic micro models, and models of non-market economics. Prerequisite: ECON 802 and 803 or equivalent.

An examination of basic macroeconomic theory, empirical macroeconomic data and models, macroeconomic analysis, and application to economic developments and policy issues. Prerequisite: ECON 798 or equivalent. Offered once a year.