International Finance (MEconSc) (1MIF1)
This programme is specifically designed with dedicated courses to deepen students’ understanding of the forces driving the global economy and the operations of the international financial markets. The programme provides both a rigorous foundation in the theory of international finance and the necessary technical skills used in applied financial market analysis.
It provides an emphasis on current issues in international economic policy and on recent developments in the areas of multinational investment flows, dynamics of exchange rates, risk management and asset pricing. Students gain a deeper understanding of both the microstructure and macroeconomic implications of these issues, and necessary technical skills for analysing financial data using computer simulation-based models.
Subjects in this course are:-
- Required EC5128: Financial Econometrics
- Required EC505: Dissertation
- Required EC5104: Applied Portfolio Management
- Required EC5109: Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
- Required EC5127: Financial Data Analytics
- Required EC5119: Derivatives and Risk Management
- Required EC563: International Finance
- Optional EC501: Microeconomic Theory
- Optional EC5129: Global Financial Economics
- Optional EC5124: Economics and the Global Economy
- Optional EC5126: Financial and Macroeconomic History
* In exceptional cases a person without a 2.1 primary degree may be admitted if economics is a major part of their undergraduate degree and if they have achieved a 2.1 average in the economics courses they have taken.
** By "intermediate-level economics" we mean courses in microeconomics and macroeconomics at a level typically done in the second or third year of an undergraduate programme. Accordingly, people who have only studied one year of economics are not eligible for admission.
