FIN 580

Spring 2014 All Classes

All Classes

Special Topics in Finance

Credit: 0 TO 4 hours.

Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated to a maximum of 18 hours in a semester. May be repeated to a maximum of 32 hours in subsequent semesters. Prerequisite: Varies by section.

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FIN 580 class schedule data for spring 2014
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
57527	Lecture-Discussion	ADF	9:30AM -10:50AM	MW	1025 Business Instructional Fac	France, V	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Advanced Futures Section Info: Advanced Futures Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
60177	Lecture-Discussion	DE1	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	2007 Business Instructional Fac	Deryugina, T	Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/21/14-03/14/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Domestic Environmental Policy Section Info: Environmental regulation has become ubiquitous; Modern business leaders need to be aware of how it affects their businesses and how to operate within its constraints. The focus of this course is the design and critique of domestic environmental policies such as liability law, taxation, command-and-control regulations, and permit markets. We compare their effectiveness and distributional impacts, including effects on regulated firms, and discuss the differential effects these policies can have on technological progress. Restriction(s): Restricted to MAS:Accountancy -UIUC or MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC.
60176	Lecture-Discussion	DE2	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	2007 Business Instructional Fac		Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/21/14-03/14/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Domestic Environmental Policy
47087	Lecture-Discussion	DEV	ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending	Widdicks, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Section Title: Professional Development Section Info: . Registration restricted to MSF students only. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC.
58626	Lecture-Discussion	FM	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	ARR Business Instructional Fac	Oltheten, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Financial Modeling Section Info: Course meets in the BIF Market Information Lab. Registration restricted to College of Business Finance Graduate students. Registration is by application only. The application can be accessed on the course web page at http://www.business.illinois.edu/finance/FinancialModeling/registration.aspx - see the Registration Link on the left margin.
60174	Lecture-Discussion	GI1	9:30AM -10:50AM	MW	2001 Business Instructional Fac	Molitor, D	Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/21/14-03/14/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Government Insurance Programs Section Info: Government insurance programs?including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, unemployment and disability insurance, terrorism insurance, and disaster relief?currently account for more than half of U.S. federal spending. These programs, which for decades have collectively been growing more quickly than the US economy, represent a significant share of an employer?s compensation expenses and significantly impact household budgets. This course will examine how the design of these programs affects economic efficiency, growth, business competitiveness, and social well-being. An important theme of the course will be the role of imperfect information and aggregate or long-term risks on insurance market failures, and conditions under which the government can or cannot remedy these failures. Restriction(s): Restricted to MAS:Accountancy -UIUC or MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC.
60175	Lecture-Discussion	GI2	11:00AM -12:20PM	MW	2001 Business Instructional Fac		Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/21/14-03/14/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Government Insurance Programs
46903	Lecture-Discussion	HF2	3:30PM -4:50PM	MW	152 Wohlers Hall	Dey, M	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/14-05/07/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Hedge Funds Section Info: .Registration restricted to MSFs and MBAs. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
60179	Lecture-Discussion	IE1	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	2007 Business Instructional Fac	Deryugina, T	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/14-05/07/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Inter. Environmental Policy Section Info: As the business landscape becomes more and more global, international environmental policy is increasingly more relevant for the success of modern firms. In this course, we demonstrate how one country?s policies can affect other countries and firms in those countries, the typical difficulties that arise in negotiating international environmental agreements and how these can be ameliorated, and the interactions between trade and the environment. Restriction(s): Restricted to MAS:Accountancy -UIUC or MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC.
60178	Lecture-Discussion	IE2	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	2007 Business Instructional Fac		Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/14-05/07/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Inter. Environmental Policy
58632	Lecture-Discussion	IM	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	2063 Business Instructional Fac	Goodfriend, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Investment Management Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
58633	Lecture-Discussion	IM2	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	2063 Business Instructional Fac	Goodfriend, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Investment Management Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
60180	Lecture-Discussion	IT1	9:30AM -10:50AM	MW	2001 Business Instructional Fac	Molitor, D	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/14-05/07/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Individual Tax Policy Section Info: Contentious public debate surrounds how to tax individuals fairly and efficiently. This course will provide the tools to design and evaluate tax policies. Topics will include measuring how taxes affect individual behavior including labor supply, savings, and portfolio decisions; the efficiency costs of taxation; understanding who bears the true economic burden of taxes; measuring the progressivity of a tax system; and the pros and cons of alternative approaches to taxation. Restriction(s): Restricted to MAS:Accountancy -UIUC or MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC.
60181	Lecture-Discussion	IT2	11:00AM -12:20PM	MW	2001 Business Instructional Fac		Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/14-05/07/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Individual Tax Policy
59302	Lecture-Discussion	MA1	9:30AM -10:50AM	MW	3007 Business Instructional Fac	Almeida, H	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/14-05/07/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Topics in M&A Section Info: This course will be a blended (or hybrid) learning course in that it will combine face to face instructional pedagogy with computer-mediated activities to form an integrated pedagogical approach. We will meet once a week for face-to-face instruction. The remaining time should be used for individual work with the online lectures, assignments, and group meetings. The instructor is also available for individual meetings with students or work groups during the week. Some learning activities that otherwise would have taken place during classroom time will be moved online to allow students to enter more deeply into the material and new concepts, and come to class better prepared to work with their peers and instructor. Students will spend a significant portion of time every week interacting with content including lectures on focused topics and class assignments. Face-to-face time in the classroom will be spent primarily on interactive dialogs between the faculty member and students by discussing cases and assignments, and highlighting the applicability of academic concepts to the real-world. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
59303	Lecture-Discussion	MA2	11:00AM -12:20PM	MW	3007 Business Instructional Fac	Almeida, H	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/14-05/07/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Topics in M&A Section Info: This course will be a blended (or hybrid) learning course in that it will combine face to face instructional pedagogy with computer-mediated activities to form an integrated pedagogical approach. We will meet once a week for face-to-face instruction. The remaining time should be used for individual work with the online lectures, assignments, and group meetings. The instructor is also available for individual meetings with students or work groups during the week. Some learning activities that otherwise would have taken place during classroom time will be moved online to allow students to enter more deeply into the material and new concepts, and come to class better prepared to work with their peers and instructor. Students will spend a significant portion of time every week interacting with content including lectures on focused topics and class assignments. Face-to-face time in the classroom will be spent primarily on interactive dialogs between the faculty member and students by discussing cases and assignments, and highlighting the applicability of academic concepts to the real-world. Restriction(s): Restricted to MAS:Accountancy -UIUC, MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC, or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
47517	Conference	PHD	11:30AM -12:50PM	F	245 Wohlers Hall	Almeida, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Section Title: Finance Doctoral Seminar Section Info: Seminar for Finance Doctoral Students. This CRN to be used for students not presenting a paper during the semester. Other students must receive consent of instructor to register. Restriction(s): Restricted to PHD:Finance -UIUC.
60710	Lecture-Discussion	RF1	2:00PM -3:20PM	MW	2057 Business Instructional Fac	Chinco, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Real Estate Financial Markets Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
60711	Lecture-Discussion	RF2	3:30PM -4:50PM	MW	2057 Business Instructional Fac	Chinco, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Real Estate Financial Markets Section Info: Real estate accounts for 1/3 of the world?s capital assets. This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of real estate valuation, cycles, markets, investments, and decision-making. The bulk of the course covers income-producing (i.e., commercial) property, although we will also discuss residential housing. This course provides a unified finance-based framework to answer real estate investment decision-making problems encountered in the real world. Doing so requires a good understanding of the institutional features that differentiate real estate from other asset classes and markets as well as modern finance and economics tools. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
58268	Lecture-Discussion	RIA	5:00PM -7:50PM	W	2007 Business Instructional Fac	Mallon, M	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/14-05/07/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Real Estate Investmnt Analysis Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
46819	Lecture-Discussion	RM	9:30AM -10:50AM	MW	245 Wohlers Hall	Pearson, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Risk Management Section Info: . The course will cover the main ideas and tools for financial risk measurement, as currently practiced at some of the leading financial institutions. The techniques covered will include both techniques used for measuring and managing the risk of individual positions and those useful at the firm-wide level, e.g. value-at-risk, credit value-at-risk, and stress testing. . Course requirements will consist of a number homework assignments, a group project, and midterm and final examinations. This course is restricted to MSFE students only. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Financial Engineering.
49199	Lecture-Discussion	RM2	12:30PM -1:50PM	MW	245 Wohlers Hall	Pearson, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Risk Management Section Info: . The course will cover the main ideas and tools for financial risk measurement, as currently practiced at some of the leading financial institutions. The techniques covered will include both techniques used for measuring and managing the risk of individual positions and those useful at the firm-wide level, e.g. value-at-risk, credit value-at-risk, and stress testing. . Course requirements will consist of a number homework assignments, a group project, and midterm and final examinations. Restricted to MSF and MBA students. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
46904	Conference	SEM	11:30AM -12:50PM	F	245 Wohlers Hall	Almeida, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Finance Doctoral Seminar Section Info: Seminar for Finance Doctoral Students. This CRN to be used for students who will be presenting a paper during the semester. Other students must receive consent of instructor to register. Restriction(s): Restricted to PHD:Finance -UIUC.
46905	Lecture-Discussion	ST	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	3039 Business Instructional Fac	Kahn, C	Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/21/14-03/14/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Strategic Thinking Section Info: Cross-listed with MBA 505. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC.
57949	Lecture-Discussion	ST2	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	3039 Business Instructional Fac	Kahn, C	Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/21/14-03/14/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Strategic Thinking Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC.
59304	Lecture-Discussion	VC1	9:30AM -10:50AM	MW	3007 Business Instructional Fac	Chattopadhyay, S	Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/21/14-03/14/14 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Entrepreneurship and VC Section Info: Restricted to MSF and MBA Students.