MSc in 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 | |
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1 |
Microeconomics * | |
2 |
Financial Economics | |
3 |
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): | |
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Forecasting Financial Time Series (H) (Dissertation code FM4T1)** | ||
Applied Financial Valuation (H) (Dissertation code FM4U7)** | ||
Risk Management for Financial Institutions (H) (Dissertation code FM4U9) | ||
Fixed Income Markets (H) (Dissertation code FM4U1) | ||
Applied Corporate Finance (H) (Dissertation code FM4T2) | ||
Advanced Asset Pricing (H) (Dissertation code FM4U3) | ||
Corporate Finance Theory (H) (Dissertation code FM4T3) (n/a 14/15) | ||
Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (H) (Dissertation code FM4U2) | ||
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Portfolio Management (H) (Dissertation code FM4T5) | |
Global Financial Systems (H) (Dissertation code FM4T7) | ||
MATLAB for MSc Students*** | ||
International Finance (H) (Dissertation code FM4T9) | ||
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Notes: | ||
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* 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 on this optional course 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. | ||
