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[ 514ELARTFCK25 ] KS The Financing of Corporations

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3 ECTS B2 - Bachelor's programme 2. year Economics Matthias Fahn 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Pre-requisites KS Introduction to Microeconomics AND IK Introduction to Microeconomics
Original study plan Bachelor's programme International Business Administration 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
The students gain knowledge about the consequences of a firm’s financing decisions on incentives and opportunities in firms. They are able to understand the trade-offs associated with using standard financing tools and can analyze costs and benefits for firms, managers, and investors in different models.
Skills Knowledge
  • Students can understand and apply moral hazard and adverse selection models to analyze capital structure of firms.
  • Students can set up and solve the loan agreement between an enterpreneur and a financier both in the fixed investement and the continous investment model.
  • Students can extend the above mentioned models to incorporate debt overhand.
  • Student sunderstand the importance of signalling in corporate finance.
Credit rationing, moral hazard, adverse selection, Fixed-investment model, debt vs. Equity, equity multiplier, continuous investment model, debt overhang, renegotiation, diversification, cross-pledging, asymmetric information, pecking order model, signaling in corporate finance, underpricing, recent topics in the literature regarding the financing of corporations.
Criteria for evaluation Exam and homework
Methods We will mostly apply basic microeconomic and game theoretic tools.
Language English
Study material
  • Lecture notes
  • Textbook: Tirole, Jean, 2006. “The Theory of Corporate Finance”, Princeton University Press.
Changing subject? No
Earlier variants They also cover the requirements of the curriculum (from - to)
514IFEKFOCK21: KS The Financing of Corporations (2021W-2025S)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 100
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority