The course is intended to provide students an overview of the basic concepts and principles of financial management in health care industry, with particular emphasis on risk, rates of return, and valuation. Health care applications in the form of case studies will be used to bolster students understanding of different financial concepts.

The objective of this course is to study, analyze, and evaluate the theoretical and empirical work on investment analysis, asset pricing, and portfolio management.  Topics include financial market micro-structure, market efficiency and documented anomalies, time-series properties of asset returns and cross-sectional properties of asset returns implied by equilibrium asset pricing models, such as CAPM, APT, and other factor models and consumption-based asset pricing. BA 521.