Sasha Indarte

Current Courses (Spring 2025)

• FNCE6110 - Corporate Finance

  This course serves as an introduction to business finance (corporate financial management and investments) for both non-majors and majors preparing for upper-level course work. The primary objective is to provide the framework, concepts, and tools for analyzing financial decisions based on fundamental principles of modern financial theory. The approach is rigorous and analytical. Topics covered include discounted cash flow techniques; corporate capital budgeting and valuation; investment decisions under uncertainty; capital asset pricing; options; and market efficiency. The course will also analyze corporate financial policy, including capital structure, cost of capital, dividend policy, and related issues. Additional topics will differ according to individual instructors.

  FNCE6110001 ( Syllabus )

  FNCE6110002 ( Syllabus )

  FNCE6110003 ( Syllabus )

  FNCE6110004 ( Syllabus )

• FNCE9260 - Empirical Meth Corp Fn

  The course will cover a variety of micro-econometric models and methods including panel data models, program evaluation methods e.g. difference in differences, matching techniques, regression discontinuity design, instrumental variables, duration models, structural estimation, simulated methods of moments. The structure of the course consists of lectures, student presentations, and empirical exercises. Published studies will be utilized in a variety of fields such as corporate finance, labor economics, and industrial organization to illustrate the various techniques. The goal of the course is to provide students with a working knowledge of various econometric techniques that they can apply in their own research. As such, the emphasis of the course is on applications, not theory. Students are required to have taken a graduate sequence in Econometrics, you should be comfortable with econometrics at the level of William Green's "Econometric Analysis of Cross-Section and Panel Data".

  FNCE9260001 ( Syllabus )

All Courses

• FNCE1000 - Corporate Finance

  This course provides an introduction to the theory, the methods, and the concerns of corporate finance. The concepts developed in FNCE 1000 form the foundation for all elective finance courses. The main topics include: 1) the time value of money and capital budgeting techniques; 2) uncertainty and the trade-off between risk and return; 3) security market efficiency; 4) optimal capital structure, and 5) dividend policy decisions. ACCT 1010 + STAT 1010 may be taken concurrently.

• FNCE6110 - Corporate Finance

  This course serves as an introduction to business finance (corporate financial management and investments) for both non-majors and majors preparing for upper-level course work. The primary objective is to provide the framework, concepts, and tools for analyzing financial decisions based on fundamental principles of modern financial theory. The approach is rigorous and analytical. Topics covered include discounted cash flow techniques; corporate capital budgeting and valuation; investment decisions under uncertainty; capital asset pricing; options; and market efficiency. The course will also analyze corporate financial policy, including capital structure, cost of capital, dividend policy, and related issues. Additional topics will differ according to individual instructors.

• FNCE9260 - Empirical Meth Corp Fn

  The course will cover a variety of micro-econometric models and methods including panel data models, program evaluation methods e.g. difference in differences, matching techniques, regression discontinuity design, instrumental variables, duration models, structural estimation, simulated methods of moments. The structure of the course consists of lectures, student presentations, and empirical exercises. Published studies will be utilized in a variety of fields such as corporate finance, labor economics, and industrial organization to illustrate the various techniques. The goal of the course is to provide students with a working knowledge of various econometric techniques that they can apply in their own research. As such, the emphasis of the course is on applications, not theory. Students are required to have taken a graduate sequence in Econometrics, you should be comfortable with econometrics at the level of William Green's "Econometric Analysis of Cross-Section and Panel Data".

• National Science Foundation Grant (for “The Origins of Serial Sovereign Default”), 2021
• Wharton Teaching Excellence Award (for FNCE 611, MBA Corporate Finance), 2020
• NBER Small Grants for Household Finance Research (for “Explaining Racial Disparities in Personal Bankruptcy Outcomes”), 2020
• Rodney L. White Center Research Grant (for “The Impact of Social Insurance on Household Debt”), 2020
• Macro Financial Modeling Initiative Dissertation Fellowship, Becker Friedman Institute, 2017
• Susan Schmidt Bies Prize for Doctoral Student Research on Economics and Public Policy, Northwestern University (for “Bad News Bankers: Underwriter Reputation and Contagion in Pre-1914 Sovereign Debt Markets”), 2016
• Marshall Blume Prize, 1970 Description

  (for “Moral Hazard versus Liquidity in Household Bankruptcy”)

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• How Financial Literacy Affects Household Debt and Bankruptcy | Sasha Indarte, Knowledge at Wharton - 4/9/2024
• How Bankruptcy Bias Contributes to the Racial Wealth Gap, Knowledge at Wharton - 9/20/2021
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• What Drives Household Bankruptcy?, Knowledge at Wharton - 10/6/2020

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