he SAFE Visitors Program organizes and cordially invites you to attend a 9-hour PhD-level mini-course on
Developing Research Questions
Prof. Andrew Ellul, PhD
Professor of Finance and Fred T. Greene Chair in Finance
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Registration
What is the objective of this mini-course? We will discuss a small set of papers in corporate finance (first meeting), financial intermediation (second meeting), and interaction between corporate finance and financial intermediation (third meeting) to share my thoughts about how you can generate research questions, develop the question of interest, understand your paper’s incremental contribution, and place it within the broad relevant literature. In other words, the focus will be on how to generate ideas and develop them.
To that end, we will discuss several influential papers in each of the three areas that, while they focus on corporations and financial intermediaries in a very broad way, will help you understand how a literature is “born”, and then develops in different directions. We will place each paper within the larger “whole” (i.e. the literature) and how one paper builds on the previous one.
By doing so, I hope I will be contributing to your human capital even if you aim to investigate questions outside the fields of corporate finance or financial intermediation, because the same broad principles can be applied to other areas as well, i.e. the papers we will discuss are intended to share with you examples of how to develop the thought process that you can apply in your favorite research area.
9 December, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., House of Finance, room HoF 1.27
10 December, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., House of Finance, room HoF 1.27
12 December, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., House of Finance, room HoF 1.27
Please note that registration for the course is required. The attendance is free of charge.
