"These lecture notes are thought for Master courses in Finance, Fintech and Quantitative Finance programmes. We fully subscribe to the philosophy that post-graduate students should be offered courses that are really at the cutting edge of the technologies and advances that are disrupting the...

This paper describes a process for automatically generating academic finance papers using large language models (LLMs). It demonstrates the process' efficacy by producing hundreds of complete papers on stock return predictability, a topic particularly well-suited for our illustration. We first...

"This book will show how the operation of U.S. financial markets, including the "market for corporate control," worked to restore the productivity and value of U.S. companies in the 1980s, and have continued to do so since then. In doing so, by bringing increased efficiency and value creation,...

This desktop study was conducted to examine the key determinants of corporate leverage strategy (both short-term as well as medium and long-term debt) in order to address the controversial subject of which of the three major theories of capital structure, particularly regarding tradeoff theory,...

Research Question/Issue: We examine the nature of the dynamic linkage (causality) between earnings and capital investment using firm-level data from around the world to see whether the legal environment, including corporate governance and monitoring mechanisms, and financial development are...