The Barcelona GSE Finance Summer School covers several key areas of finance, including corporate finance, investments, high frequency trading, derivatives and portfolio management.

The school is aimed primarily at graduate students and professionals. Each of the courses combines a mixture of lectures and practical classes. The focus is on the implementation of theoretical concepts through practical examples.

Course list for 2020

Week 2 (July 6-10, 2020)

Empirical Corporate Finance

Instructor: Stefano Rossi (Bocconi University)

Corporate Finance

Instructor: Filippo Ippolito (UPF and Barcelona GSE)

Pricing Financial Derivatives

Instructor: Eulàlia Nualart (UPF and Barcelona GSE)

Week 3 (July 13-17, 2020)

Investments

Instructor: Javier Gil-Bazo (UPF and Barcelona GSE)

Advanced Portfolio Management 

Instructor: Francesco Sangiorgi (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

Rise of the Machines: Electronic Markets and High-frequency Trading

Instructor: Roberto Pascual (University of the Balearic Islands)

Investing in Fixed Income

Instructor: Mary Pieterse-Bloem (Erasmus School of Economics)

Note: applicants can combine these courses with courses in other programs happening during Week 1 (June 29 - July 3)