24318 - Special Financial Operations

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Financial Markets and Institutions (cod. 0901)

Learning outcomes

The students will be able to cope with many advanced corporate finance issues, such as the pricing of a contract provision in a M&A transaction, the value of a real option embedded in an investment project, etc.

Course contents

This course provides a comprehensive analysis of selected advanced corporate finance issues within the context of market constraints that include risk and regulations. Specifically, the course involves the following topics:
- Investment projects valuation
- International cost of capital
- Credit scoring models (STATA) and cost of debt
- Firm valuation in M&A transactions
- Pricing real options (throug Montecarlo simulation)
- The value of contract provisions (throug real options)

Assessment methods

- group homework assignments
- final written test

Links to further information

http://stefanomengoli.weebly.com

Office hours

See the website of Stefano Mengoli