MSc Finance and Economics

Academic-year programme. Students must take three compulsory courses and optional courses to the value of one full unit. They must submit a dissertation in one of the optional courses and take a two-hour examination in the other. Students are also required to attend the September Courses EC400 and FM458. The dissertation must be submitted by the last week of June.

Paper	Course number and title
1	EC411 Microeconomics for MSc Students *
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): FM402 Financial Risk Analysis (H) (Dissertation code FM4T0) FM404 Forecasting Financial Time Series (H) (Dissertation code FM4T1)** FM413 Fixed Income Markets (H) (Dissertation code FM4U1) FM421 Applied Corporate Finance (H) (Dissertation code FM4T2) FM440 Corporate Finance Theory (H) (Dissertation code FM4T3) FM445 Portfolio Management (H) (Dissertation code FM4T5) FM446 Trading and Institutions (H) (Dissertation code AC4T6) (n/a 08/09) FM447 Global Financial System (H) (Dissertation code FM4T7) FM448 Financial Intermediaries (H) (Dissertation code AC4T8) (n/a 08/09) 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 for MSc Students ** Students taking this course can apply for a place on FM457 MATLAB for MSc Students, a non-assessed computer course.