MSc Finance and Economics

Academic-year (10 month) programme. Students must take three compulsory full-unit core courses and two optional half-unit courses. They must submit a 6,000 word dissertation in one of the optional courses and take a two-hour examination in the other. Students are also required to attend EC400 Introductory Course in Mathematics and Statistics. The dissertation must be submitted in the third week of June.

Paper	Course number and title
1	EC411	Microeconomics *
2	FM436	Financial Economics
3	FM437	Financial Econometrics
4	Courses to the value of one full unit selected from the following (one to be examined by dissertation and one by examination):

	FM404	Forecasting Financial Time Series (H) (Dissertation code FM4T1)**
	FM407	Applied Financial Valuation (H) (Dissertation code FM4U7)**
	FM409	Risk Management for Financial Institutions (H) (Dissertation code FM4U9)
	FM413	Fixed Income Markets (H) (Dissertation code FM4U1)
	FM421	Applied Corporate Finance (H) (Dissertation code FM4T2)
	FM438	Advanced Asset Pricing (H) (Dissertation code FM4U3)
	FM440	Corporate Finance Theory (H) (Dissertation code FM4T3) (n/a 13/14)
	FM442	Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (H) (Dissertation code FM4U2)
	FM445	Portfolio Management (H) (Dissertation code FM4T5)
	FM447	Global Financial System (H) (Dissertation code FM4T7)
	FM457	MATLAB for MSc Students***
	FM472	International Finance (H) (Dissertation code FM4T9)

Notes:
* With the approval of the Programme Director, students who have already completed the equivalent of EC411 in their prior studies may be permitted to take EC413 Macroeconomics.
** Places in this optional course for 2013/14 are not automatically guaranteed, students must obtain approval from the Associate Programme Director to take this course.
*** This course is not for credit and can be taken in addition to courses to the value of one full unit selected from Paper 4.