What is Finance? What is the relationship between economics and finance? Who owns a corporation? What is the agency problem? What is the objective of a firm and its constraints? Who is controlling firms? What are Business Ethics? What is a financial market and what types of changes have financial markets experienced during the last three decades? Is our financial market an efficient one? What are the components of interest rates and how monetary policy can change them? What are the information that the shape of a yield curve can give to us?