MSc International Financial Economics

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• Academic title
  MSc International Financial Economics
• Course description
  MSc: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time
  
  This programme offers training in the core areas of macroeconomics, microeconomics and financial economics. It has a specific international macroeconomic and financial economics slant.
  
  Graduates from this programme gain employment in financial institutions, including banks, investment banks and asset management firms and government organisations involved in financial decision-making. This programme also offers a suitable grounding for working in international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and for those wishing to work in the academic sector. In particular graduates from this degree should be suitable for working in international organisations involved in financial transactions and provision of finance.
  
  Content
  
  You will take five core courses
  
      * Macroeconomics
      * Microeconomics
      * International finance and money
      * Basic econometrics (or Advanced econometrics, subject to the approval of the programme director)
      * Economics of finance.
  
  Plus one option and a dissertation.  The list of options includes:
  
      * IMF, World Bank and economic growth
      * Financial institutions and markets in developing countries
      * Advanced econometrics (if not taken as a core)
      * International trade
      * Money, finance and growth
      * Other MSc options subject to approval.

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