Topics in Financial Economics (MSIN0234)

Key information

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering Sciences
Teaching department: 果冻影院 School of Management
Credit value: 30

Restrictions: This module is available for students on the MRes Financial Economics, MRes Management and MRes Economics. Other postgraduate students can join subject to the approval of the module leader.
Timetable

Alternative credit options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

This module will provide transferable research skills, set in the context of recent developments in the Financial Economics academic literature. It will consist of two parts. Part A will relate recent developments in Financial Intermediation and Regulation, and advances in Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance, to the existing literature and especially to seminal contributions to the field. Part B will be linked to 果冻影院 Finance Seminars (joint between the School of Management and the Department of Economics), where world leading experts come to present their current research (e.g., in 2018-2019, speakers came from institutions such as Yale, Berkeley, Chicago and Columbia, and included Nobel laureates).

Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Terms 2 and 3 听听听 Postgraduate (FHEQ Level 7)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study: In person
Methods of assessment: 50% Coursework

50% Dissertations, extended projects and projects
Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year: 2
Module leader: Dr Frederic Malherbe
Who to contact for more information: amy.evison@ucl.ac.uk

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.

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Important information

The catalogue has been updated with key information about the modules that will run during the 2024/25 academic session. Current and prospective students can browse through the catalogue to consider possible module choices for the coming year.

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Centrally managed exam durations will be provided on students' individual exam timetables. Arrangements for locally managed exams and in-class activity will be confirmed by the teaching department for the module.

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