[Mingli Lecture Hall, 2020] 12-20 Associate Professor Zhang Zhiqiang, Business School, Renmin University of China: Capital Structure and asset pricing —— Decision questions

Speaker: Associate Professor Zhang Zhiqiang (Business School, Renmin University of China)

Time: December 20,2020，13:20-17:35 PM

Location: Graduate Building 303

Speaker profile:

Zhang Zhiqiang, Ph. D. in Management, Renmin University of China, MBA(focuses on Finance, University of Leuven, Belgium), one year at St. John's University and another year at New York University, Associate Professor of Business School, Renmin University of China.He has unique thinking on financial problems such as capital structure and asset pricing. He is good at using options pricing methods to solve financial problems, and has unique discoveries and original models in the fields of asset value evaluation, capital asset pricing, capital structure and risk management.

Email: jinronglilun@126.com

Content introduction:

Capital structure is a major problem in the field of finance and. Since finance has become independent disciplines, mainstream research has not found proper answer; this lecture will share the thoughts and answers of the speaker with students.Asset pricing occupies a central position in the financial and financial areas, related to the determination of thediscount rate, the core variable of asset value calculation; mainstream research has answered some of those, such as CAPM; this lecture will share the speaker's thinking, understanding and answers with students.Unlike currently popular studies,main speaker study such questions as decision-making issues, rather than pursuing statistical descriptive conclusions of realistic data.