“Corporate Finance”

Master's and Undergraduate Class

This is a standard introductory course to corporate finance dealing with principles of time value of money, risk and return, capital budgeting, and financing decisions. My students work with a personal computer so we can introduce the theory and next turn to real data and work on financial modeling relating to that theory. Often times, I use articles from the news to kick-start the class, which motivates the students from the first minute.

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“Principles of Investment”
Master's and Undergraduate Class
Graduate and undergraduate students alike thoroughly enjoy this class.  The course covers essential concepts like efficient diversification, portfolio selection, security analysis, and macroeconomic and industry analysis.  We typically introduce a topic, cover the theoretical background, and move swiftly towards real-world applications.  For instance, when working on portfolio selection, students will define their preferences and goals and analyze real data to create their own portfolios. Whether working as financial advisers or simply planning their personal finance, students can always come back to the notions they acquire in this class.

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“Financial Markets and Institutions”

Undergraduate Class

This course offers students a broad understanding of how financial markets work, and what the roles of their key institutions are.  It is fun.  Fast paced.  Computer-intensive.  Packed with concepts and applications: online data search, data analysis, Excel modeling, news reviews and discussion, online lab and exercises, videos...  It has it all.  And virtually every concept is closely related to everyday life.

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“Making Decisions in Complex Business Environments”

Graduate Class

This course is taught at San Andrés, Argentina, for the International Accounting Program of McCombs School of Business, UT Austin. The course blends economics, strategy, and finance to offer students experience and tools to do business in complex business environments. We start with a review of the Argentine economy, its sectors, and markets. We then move to businesses and their strategies to successfully navigate the Argentine business cycle. Next, we focus on analytical tools designed to cope with uncertainty and risks in financial management; this part puts an emphasis on financial modeling. We wrap up the course with the analysis of real business opportunities. This is, truly, a fun course.

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“Applied Econometrics”
Graduate Class
This course is meant for students with a background in econometrics. The main objective is to become familiar with applications of a wide range of econometric models and methods. We start with a review of key notions on statistics, inference, linear and nonlinear models, and estimation methods. We then move to semi-parametric and non-parametric models. We devote the last part of the course to univariate and multivariate time-series models. I teach this course in a lab, so we can seamlessly switch back and forth between theory and applications as needed.

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“Advanced Econometrics”
Ph.D. Class
This course is designed and taught under the assumption that each student in the class is a researcher with a genuine need to master the theory and use of econometric methods.  We work in stages starting with basics statistics, and we move forward to cover diverse methods of cross-sectional and panel data analysis. All along the way we ask when, why, and how would we use each technique and we make sure everybody is proficient at applying them. This includes designing tests, programming them, and interpreting their results.  This is certainly not the easiest class of all, yet it is one that will prepare students to conduct rigorous empirical research.