MSc Economics

Academic-year programme. Students must take three compulsory courses, one unit of optional courses and a dissertation linked to the optional course as shown. Students are also required to attend EC400 Introductory Course in Mathematics and Statistics.

Paper	Course number and title
1	EC413	Macroeconomics
2	EC411	Microeconomics or
2	EC487	Advanced Microeconomics †
3	EC402	Econometrics
4	Courses to the value of one full unit (including a 6000-word dissertation to be submitted by the beginning of the summer term)
	EC421	International Economics
	EC423	Labour Economics
	EC424	Monetary Economics
	EC426	Public Economics
	EC427	Economics of Industry
	EC428	Development and Growth
	EC453	Political Economy (n/a 13/14)
	EC476	Contracts and Organisations
	FM431M	Corporate Finance A (H) *and* FM421 Applied Corporate Finance (H) or FM440 Corporate Finance Theory (H) *
	FM429	Asset Markets A (H) *and* FM404 Forecasting Financial Time Series (H) or FM413 Fixed Income Markets (H) or FM445 Portfolio Management (H) *
	Any other course in Economics approved by the candidate's teachers. Such approval will only be given in exceptional circumstances.
Notes
† Students must obtain the permission of the course proprietor.
* For the purposes of degree classification the Finance half unit courses are combined and averaged to produce a final mark.