J. Anthony Cookson's research focuses on the intersection between corporate finance, industrial organization, household finance, and law and economics, and has applications to the American casino industry, American Indian tribal economic development, and the determinants of bank mergers. His recent research has focused on how information is processed by financial market participants, particularly in a social media context. He has published or has forthcoming articles in The Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and the Review of Financial Studies.
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social media, corporate finance, credit and banking, industrial organization, household finance, financial decision-making, law and economics, applied econometrics
FNCE 2010 - Quantitative Methods for Finance
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Spring 2018
Study of quantitative approaches to finance. Covers mathematical and statistical topics required for such analysis, including derivatives, optimization, integration, probability, inference, and regression. Students will become proficient in using the tools and applying them to various financial contexts using analytics Excel.
MBAX 6220 - Investment Management and Analysis
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Fall 2018
Covers managing investment portfolios, blending economic theory and evidence with practitioner experience. Topics include understanding risk and return relationships, diversification, portfolio management, various asset classes, popular valuation models (capital asset, arbitrage pricing, and option pricing), aspects of fixed income and performance assessment.
MBAX 6221 - Investment Management & Analysis
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Fall 2025
Covers managing investment portfolios by blending academic theories and evidence with practitioner experience. Topics include risk and return relationships, securities, value theory (capital asset, arbitrage, and option pricing), portfolios, and performance evaluations.
MBAX 6295 - Topics in Finance
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Fall 2024
Provides a vehicle for the development and presentation of new topics with the potential of being incorporated into the standard MBA curriculum. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
MSBC 5030 - Quantitative Methods
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020
Covers foundations for statistical reasoning and statistical applications in business. Topics include graduate level treatment of descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, sampling theory and sampling distributions and statistical inference (estimation and hypothesis testing). Provides an introduction to regression analysis, analysis of variance, time series forecasting, decision analysis, index numbers, and nonparametric methods. Heavy use of R programming in course execution.
MSBC 5031 - Quantitative Methods in Finance
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Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
Covers foundations for statistical reasoning and statistical applications in business. Topics include graduate level treatment of descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, sampling theory and sampling distributions and statistical inference (estimation and hypothesis testing) applied to the field of finance. Provides an introduction to topics such as regression analysis, analysis of variance, time series forecasting, decision analysis, index numbers, and nonparametric methods.
MSBC 5032 - Real Estate Data Analysis
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Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
Covers foundations for statistical reasoning and statistical applications in business. Topics include graduate level treatment of descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, sampling theory and sampling distributions and statistical inference (estimation and hypothesis testing) applied to real estate. Provides an introduction to topics such as regression analysis, analysis of variance, time series forecasting, decision analysis, index numbers, and nonparametric methods.
MSBC 5220 - Investment Management & Analysis
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2025
Covers managing investment portfolios by blending academic theories and evidence with practitioner experience. Topics include risk and return relationships, securities, value theory (capital asset, arbitrage, and option pricing), portfolios, and performance evaluations.
MSBC 5235 - Finance Industry Academy
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Spring 2025
This course provides finance industry perspectives, professional development, and information about finance industry careers for students in the MS finance program. The course complements the foundational material found in the rest of the MS finance curriculum with perspectives on how the MS finance skillset translates into varied careers in the finance industry. The course will draw heavily upon the finance industry perspective, the Burridge Center for Finance, and career resources at the Leeds school. May be repeated up to 3 total credit hours.
