FIN480 – Seminars in Finance Final Assessment (20%)

Due date: August 6th, 2020, Time: 11:59 PM

Name of the Student:

Student ID:

Instructions:

• This assignment must be completed by each student individually, and the solution to this assignment must be uploaded on Moodle through the assignment link by the due
• After the due date is passed, the normal deductions will apply for each day of delay as announced on

Questions:

1. Write a complete report on your selected topic. Your report must include the following sections:
   1. Title of your Research
      1. Appropriately describes the content and direction of your project
   2. Name and Affiliation
      1. Name, Affiliation
   3. Abstract
      1. Summary of your report
         1. Your interest in the topic
         2. Brief background of your topic

• Objectives

1. Research methodology
2. Results

1. Key words
   1. Cryptocurrency,
2. Introduction/Background
   1. What is already known about the theme
   2. Describing the structure of the rest of the report
3. Aims and Scope
   1. Aims
   2. Objectives
   3. Research Questions
   4. Significance

1. Literature Review
   1. Summarize previous studies
   2. Research Gap
2. Research Methodology
   1. Describe your methodology
   2. Description of your variable
      1. What variables? For instance, Liquidity, Profitability, Stock markets, cryptocurrencies. Brief description of each
      2. Define your How to intend to measure your variables, what sources, for what period?
   3. Results and analysis
      1. Discuss the descriptive statistics of your variables
      2. Graphs and histograms
      3. Discuss/explain Regression analysis
   4. Conclusion
      1. Summarizing the outcome of your study
      2. Future direction
      3. Limitations
   5. Author Bio
      1. What must be known about the author and his/her academic interests
   6. References
      1. APA Style: Google Scholar or the journal page for the

(50 Marks)

2. Write a short note on the following theories:
3. Modern Portfolio Theory (Harry Markowitz)
4. Capital Structure Theory (Modigliani and Miller Approach)

(25 Marks)

3. Perform the regression analysis on the following data1 and describe your

(25 Marks)

1 The data is hypothetical, and meant only to testing the student’s knowledge