FM404      Half Unit
Advanced Financial Economics

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Prof Peter Kondor

Availability

This course is available on the MSc in Finance and Economics and MSc in Finance and Economics (Work Placement Pathway). This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes. This course uses controlled access as part of the course selection process.

All students on a programme listed under the Course Availability will be given a place. The course is not capped.

Please contact finance.teachingmanager@lse.ac.uk with any queries.

This course is not capped, any eligible student that requests a place will be given one.

This course does not permit auditing students.

Course content

Advanced Financial Economics provides an introduction to the academic side of Finance. The course touches upon various topics of active research ranging from frictions in asset markets derived from asymmetric information, illiquidity, decentralized trading or speculative bubbles to the interaction of corporate finance and the macroeconomy. The course is targeted to students who are interested in how abstract models can be used to understand better the causes and consequences of existing and potential problems in financial markets.

Additional information can be found on Moodle (for current students).

Teaching

30 hours of seminars in the Winter Term.

There is no distinction between lectures and classes/seminars; there are “sessions” only, and the pedagogical approach in each session is interactive.

Formative assessment

Regular problem sets.

 

Indicative reading

Lecture notes will be provided, and journal articles will be required to be read.

Assessment

Continuous assessment (100%)


Key facts

Department: Finance

Course Study Period: Winter Term

Unit value: Half unit

FHEQ Level: Level 7

CEFR Level: Null

Total students 2024/25: 14

Average class size 2024/25: 14

Controlled access 2024/25: No
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Personal development skills

  • Application of information skills
  • Application of numeracy skills
  • Specialist skills