040090 KU Corporate Finance 2 (MA) (2020S)

Corporate Finance II aims to provide students with a deeper understanding of the theoretical models underlying most of the research on corporate finance and financial intermediation. It will study some of the seminal models and papers in corporate finance applying principles of economics of asymmetric information. The course content will be the following:

I) Firm financing under asymmetric information, signalling and the pecking order theory (Myers and Majluf, 1984; Leland and Pyle, 1977).
II) Firm financing, moral hazard and pledgeable income (Holmström and Tirole, 1997)

III) Mergers and acquisitions: the free-riding problem, toeholds and dilution, voting and corporate governance
IV) IPO's: underpricing, winner's curse and SEO's

VI) Applications of the Holmström-Tirole model: debt overhang, liquidity

If time allows, other topics will also be covered.

There will be both lectures and tutorials. At tutorials, problem sets will be discussed and the solutions will be presented by the students.