Introduction
This course deals with contemporary issues in corporate finance and refines tools to evaluate investments, capital structure, and corporate securities. The course explores how corporate finance decisions are affected when the classic Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance-assumptions are relaxed, focusing on the consequences of taxes, bankruptcy, information asymmetries, and agency conflicts, among others. In this context, it discusses the important role and the various features of firm debt financing. The course introduces students to modern corporate financial theories as well as empirical patterns and studies.