MSc in Finance and Economics (Research)
Academic-year (10 month) programme. Students must take three compulsory full-unit core courses and two optional half-unit courses. Students must apply for entry into the programme at the start of October. Entry will be upon acceptance onto EC487 and FM481 by the course leaders in the Departments of Economics and Finance respectively. Students must take courses as shown. They must submit a 10,000 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 EC400 Introductory Course in Mathematics and Statistics. The dissertation must be submitted in the third week of June.
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Course number and title | |
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Financial Economics | |
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Financial Econometrics for Research Students | |
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Advanced Microeconomics* | ||
4 |
Two half-unit courses selected from the following: | |
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Forecasting Financial Time Series (H) (Dissertation code FM4T1)** | ||
Applied Financial Valuation (H) (Dissertation code FM4U7)** | ||
Risk Management for Financial Institutions (H) (Dissertation code FM4U9) | ||
Fixed Income Markets (H) (Dissertation code FM4U1) | ||
Applied Corporate Finance (H) (Dissertation code FM4T2) | ||
Advanced Asset Pricing (H) (Dissertation code FM4U3) | ||
Corporate Finance Theory (H) (Dissertation code FM4T3) (n/a 14/15) | ||
Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (H) (Dissertation code FM4U2) | ||
Portfolio Management (H) (Dissertation code FM4T5) | ||
Global Financial Systems (H) (Dissertation code FM4T7) | ||
MATLAB for MSc Students*** | ||
International Finance (H) (Dissertation code FM4T9) | ||
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Notes |
* With the approval of the Programme Director, students who have already completed the equivalent of EC487 in their prior studies may be permitted to take EC413 Macroeconomics. | |
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** Places on this optional course are not automatically guaranteed, students must obtain approval from the Associate Programme Director to take this course. | |
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*** 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. | |
