Academic-year (10 month) programme. Students must take three compulsory courses and optional courses to the value of one full unit. They must submit a 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 and FM458 Probability and Stochastic Calculus. 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): |
|
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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* 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 for MSc Students. |
** Students taking this course can apply for a place on FM457 MATLAB for MSc Students, a non-assessed computer course. |
