M.Sc. FINANCIAL ECONOMICS - Madras School of Economics

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M.Sc. FINANCIAL ECONOMICSM.Sc. Financial Economics is a two-year Post Graduate degree program in Financial Economics.Globally, the financial sectors have, in recent years, been expanding at phenomenal rates andwitnessing dramatic changes in their range and sophistication of operations. Hence, there isincreasing demand for financial practitioners who are not only equipped with a good foundation ineconomics, mathematics and statistics but who are also well trained in the emerging theoretical andempirical tools for a better understanding of the sector. The Financial Economics course is meantto basically cater to this demand.The course is divided into four modules. Each module consists of four papers. In the first-year,there will be 8 core courses. In the second year, the first module comprises two core papers andtwo optional (elective) papers. The second module comprises of one core paper and three optional(elective) papers. It will be taught under the guidance of an Advisory Committee comprisingeminent persons from both the analytics industry as well as academics.The core courses lay the foundations for the basic theory and give students a feel for how it isbeing played out in real economies. The courses in Statistics, Mathematical Methods,Econometrics and Applied Econometrics equip them with a good range of skills and tools forquantitative analysis. In addition, a range of one-semester elective courses to choose from areoffered in the following specialized subjects- Risk Management, Investment Banking, FinancialRegulation and Banking Supervision, Games and Information, Stochastic Models, Economics ofInsurance, Empirical Methods in Finance. All these courses are application oriented and veryrelevant for today's liberalized financial environment. There is also an emphasis on independentresearch. Students are required to do term papers in most of the courses and each studentundertakes a significant research project during the second year. Interested students take up asummer internship programme at the end of the first year, which greatly helps them to get anorientation in applied work. With this view, Madras School of Economics jointly with CentralUniversity of Tamil Nadu aims to introduce a two-year post-graduate degree course in FinancialEconomics.2
Draft OutlineM.Sc. (FINANCIAL ECONOMICS)SEMESTER 1Course Code Course Name CFE:01 Microeconomics I 4FE:02 Macroeconomics 4FE:03 Statistical Methods 4FE:04 Mathematical Methods 4SEMESTER 2Course Code Course Name CFE:05 Financial Mathematics 4FE:06 Microeconomics II 4FE:07 Econometric Methods 4FE:08 Financial Economics I 43
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Page 9 and 10: Second SemesterFE:05 FINANCIAL MATH
Page 11 and 12: FE:07 ECONOMETRIC METHODS1. Regress
Page 13 and 14: 1. Stationary Time SeriesThird Seme
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