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.
Requisites
Co-requisite:
Students must complete FM436 either before taking this course or in the same year as this course.
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: YesCourse selection videos
Some departments have produced short videos to introduce their courses. Please refer to the course selection videos index page for further information.
Personal development skills
- Application of information skills
- Application of numeracy skills
- Specialist skills