MSc in Finance and Economics

Programme code: TMFIEC

Department: Finance

This information is for the 2016/17 session.

Academic-year (10 month) programme. Students must take three compulsory full-unit core courses and two optional half-unit courses. All students 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.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Paper

Course number and title

1

EC411 

Microeconomics * OR

 

EC4B5

Macroeconomics for MSc F&E (H) # AND

 

EC4B6

Microeconomics for MSc F&E (H) #

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

Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings (H) (Dissertation code FM4U7)**

FM408

Financial Engineering (H) (Dissertation code FM4T8)

FM409

Risk Management in Financial Markets (H) (Dissertation code FM4U9)

FM413

Fixed Income Markets (H) (Dissertation code FM4U1)

FM421

Applied Corporate Finance (H) (Dissertation code FM4T2)

FM440

Corporate Finance Theory (H) (Dissertation code FM4T3) (withdrawn 16/17)

FM442

Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (H) (Dissertation code FM4U2)

 

FM445

Portfolio Management (H) (Dissertation code FM4T5)

FM447

Global Financial Systems (H) (Dissertation code FM4T7)

FM457

Applied Computational Finance***

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 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.

# Students may, with the approval of the Programme Director, Associate Programme Director and relevant Course Leaders, take half-units in Macroeconomics and Micreconomics, instead of the full unit EC411, Microeconomics. Students would be required to complete the EC400 pre-sessional course, Maths for Macroeconomics, and must meet the relevant pre-requisites for the Macroeconomics half unit.

The Bologna Process facilitates comparability and compatibility between higher education systems across the European Higher Education Area. Some of the School's taught master's programmes are nine or ten months in duration. If you wish to proceed from these programmes to higher study in EHEA countries other than the UK, you should be aware that their recognition for such purposes is not guaranteed, due to the way in which ECTS credits are calculated.