Finance

About the Department

The Department of Finance is devoted to excellence in teaching and research in the full range of the subfields of finance, including corporate finance, asset pricing theory, risk management, empirical analysis of capital markets, behavioural finance, portfolio analysis, derivatives pricing, microstructure and financial econometrics.

The Department is one of the largest and most highly-regarded finance groups in Europe. It is closely associated with the LSE's Financial Markets Group which regularly hosts a wide variety of seminars, conferences and public addresses by leading academics and practitioners. With over 200 graduate students selected from a pool of top applicants world-wide, a faculty recruited from the top departments internationally, and a steady flow of distinguished visitors, we provide a stimulating environment for research and learning that is on par with the best in the world.

MRes/PhD Finance

Visiting Research Students

This programme aims to produce students whose research is of the highest international quality, and is designed to provide a broad-based training in theoretical and empirical research methods in finance.

Our programme is unique in its integration of finance and economics. You will take first-year micro and macro courses together with PhD students in Economics, but will differentiate by taking advanced courses in financial econometrics, asset pricing and corporate finance during the first two years of the programme. You will leave with a broad understanding of finance and its relations to other fields in economics.

As one of the largest finance departments in the world, we are able to offer opportunities for research in virtually any field in finance. We have strengths in both theory and empirics, asset pricing and corporate finance, as well as financial econometrics, behavioural finance, macro-finance, and microeconomic analysis of financial markets and institutions.

The department has close links with the Financial Markets Group enabling students to attend regular seminars, workshops and conferences given by internationally renowned speakers.

Taught programmes

• MSc Finance (full-time) programme
• MSc Finance (part-time) evening programme
• MSc Finance and Economics
• MSc Finance and Economics (Research)
• MSc Finance and Private Equity
• MSc Risk and Finance
• MSc Accounting and Finance (joint degree with Department of Accounting)
• Diploma in Accounting and Finance (joint degree with Department of Accounting)