Private Equity and Venture Capital
- UE code ELFIM409
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Schedule
30Quarter 2
- ECTS Credits 5
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Language
Français
- Teacher Giot Pierre
At the end of the course, the participants will be able to
The goal of this course is to initiate participants to a better understanding of venture capital, the management and organization of entrepreneurial companies and the financing challenges met by start-ups. This course covers both theory and practice. In addition to a theoretical introduction, students will work in groups to tackle a specific topic in the field of entrepreneurship. Each group will tackle this topic from a different perspective in the form of a Mini Thesis of 5,000 words maximum. The topic will be decided at the beginning of the year in function of the current interests of the press, academia and regulators. In addition to covering a specific topic from different perspectives, this course discusses and illustrates different empirical approaches to tackle the research questions of the MiniThesis in R and prepares the student for the actual Master Thesis. Using papers on this specific topic, the course will highlight the following empirical topics: endogeneity, difference in difference estimators and event studies.