Academic-year (10 month) programme. Students must apply for entry into the programme at the start of October. Entry will be dependant upon the EC400 results and acceptance onto EC487 by the Department of Economics. Students must take courses as shown. They must submit a 6,000 word dissertation in one of the optional half unit courses and take a two-hour examination in the other course. Students are required to attend the pre-sessional course FM458 Probability and Stochastic Calculus. The dissertation must be submitted by the last week of June.
Paper |
Course number and title |
1
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FM436
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Financial Economics |
2
|
FM437
|
Financial Econometrics |
3 |
EC487
|
Advanced Microeconomics* |
4 |
Two half-unit courses selected from the following: |
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FM402
|
Financial Risk Analysis (H) (Dissertation code FM4T0) |
FM404
|
Forecasting Financial Time Series (H) (Dissertation code FM4T1) |
FM413
|
Fixed Income Markets (H) (Dissertation code FM4U1) |
FM421
FM407
FM414
|
Applied Corporate Finance (H) (Dissertation code FM4T2) or
Applied Financial Valuation (H) (Dissertation code FM4U7) or
Cases in Corporate Finance (H) (Dissertation code FM4T4)
|
FM440
|
Corporate Finance Theory (H) (Dissertation code FM4T3) |
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) |
FM472
|
International Finance (H) (Dissertation code FM4T9) |
Notes
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*students must obtain the approval of the EC487 course leader to take this course. |
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Students will be required to attend teaching for the course which they chose to write their dissertation on. |
