Professor Péter Kondor

This course is available on the MSc in Finance and Economics and MSc in Finance and Economics (Work Placement Pathway). This course is not available as an outside option.

This course is not capped, any eligible student that requests a place will be given one.

This course does not permit auditing students.

Students must have completed Financial Economics (FM436).

Advanced Financial Economics provides an introduction to the academic side of Finance. The course touches upon various topics of active research ranging from frictions in asset markets derived from asymmetric information, illiquidity, decentralized trading or speculative bubbles to the interaction of corporate finance and the macroeconomy. The course is targeted to students who are interested in how abstract models can be used to understand better the causes and consequences of existing and potential problems in financial markets.

Additional information can be found on Moodle (for current students).

30 hours of seminars in the WT.

There is no distinction between lectures and classes/seminars; there are “sessions” only, and the pedagogical approach in each session is interactive.

Regular problem sets.

Lecture notes will be provided, and journal articles will be required to be read.

Continuous assessment (100%).