MRes/PhD Finance & Economics

This module aims to provide you with the fundamental knowledge of asset pricing theory and the tools required to evaluate and use asset pricing in real life situations.

This second module of Asset Pricing aims to examine asset pricing focusing on the development of stylised facts and the tools required for the investigation of financial data.

This module aims to provide you with an introduction to the theoretical foundations of corporate finance and to understand empirical implications and formulate empirical predictions of corporate finance models.

This second module of corporate finance aims to enable you to be able to understand and critically reflect on key and recent innovative empirical research while preparing you to do research in empirical corporate finance.

This module aims to provide the training and tools required to conduct research in finance. In particular, to provide you with the foundations, topics and current research in market microstructure, banking, financial institutions, financial innovation, and financial crisis.

In the second year of your MRes, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to autonomously investigate and carry out novel research in your chosen area of finance.