While there has been a rapid growth of business and management schools in India since 1990, the curricula, teaching methods and the mode of delivery largely remain an instructor-led approach overlooking the needs of learners and potential employers. This paper presents a learner-centric...

The aim of this article was to assess the use of a group-based project for an empirical finance type of course. It examines the outline of the project, the methodology the students are encouraged to follow and how the course is assessed. This approach enables the students to apply many of the...

Following the 2007-09 financial crisis, mainstream finance theory was criticized for failing to forecast the market crash, which resulted in large losses for investors. Has our finance theory, which many consider an idealization that does not take reality into account, failed investors? Do we...

We provide evidence of a positive causal link between financial knowledge acquired through business education and returns on stock investments. Using exogenous variation generated by admission thresholds to university business programs in Sweden, we document that early investments in financial...

Nach einer langen Periode grosser Wachstumsraten ist die Hedgefond-Industrie im Kontext der kürzlichen Kreditkrise an einen interessanten Wendepunkt geraten. Diese Dissertation umfasst drei Aufsätze, die sich mit der risiko-adjustierten Performance von Hedgefonds befassen. Eine mögliche...