Courses & Workshops
Courses
ECON206 Microfinance: Theory, Practice and Challenge
Professor Shannon Mudd
Spring Semesters
An exploration of microfinance as an approach to meeting the financial needs of the poor with the potential to have significant positive impacts on their lives. The course is open to all students and provides them with the opportunity to explore theoretical explanations for its methodology, evaluate empirical research into its impacts and debate important issues in its practice.
ECON374 Junior Research Seminar: Access to Finance
Professor Shannon Mudd
Fall Semesters
The availability of finance to households and firms, especially small firms, varies substantially across time, place and activity. For poor households, in particular, access to appropriate financial products in terms of service, product and quality are often severely limited and often obtained only at high cost. This course is conducted as research seminar with students taking a large part of the responsibility for presenting the research questions and findings in both seminal and recent research efforts in this area. The main emphasis is on understanding the factors that affect small firm access to finance and the financial access of the poor.
Workshops
Impact Investing Seminar
Professor Shannon Mudd and Andrew Dinger, Haverford Investment Analysis
Spring 2012
This 6-session evening seminar introduces students to impact investing. The seminar covered the basic concept of impact investing and provided exposure to the tools of finance and impact measurement.
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610-896-4945
smudd@haverford.edu