Leeds City Region is a leading hub for financial, professional and business services. With access to support from the Business School’s Employability and Opportunity team, you’ll have many opportunities to develop your professional network throughout your studies. You will learn the necessary skills and knowledge to build a career in finance.
As you progress, you’ll learn how to identify problems with the models and how to address these problems. In lectures you’ll learn about the techniques, and in seminars you’ll apply these techniques to a variety of economic problems and estimate models with real data. In the second part of the module you’ll apply the techniques learnt in the first part to problems in financial economics. These applications include estimation of the Capital Asset Pricing Model , testing the Efficient Markets Hypothesis , and using stock price data to in the valuation of options. Throughout the module, seminars take place in computer labs and you will gain skills in analysing data using the widely used econometric computer package STATA. By the end of the module, you’ll be able to estimate appropriate regression models, identify problems which may arise and know how to address them.
Concentration in Management (4.0 credits)
In our Financial Markets Lab you can harness the software used in financial markets worldwide to gain vital insights into the fast-paced environment of the trading floor. On this course you have the option to apply to spend a year in industry with organisations across the public, private and voluntary sectors, in the UK or overseas. If you take this option, your degree will be extended to a four-year programme with the third year spent on placement.
- With its lively, state-of-the-art facilities and a close-knit international community, Southend is the perfect environment for living and learning.
- DMU offers a range ofundergraduateandpostgraduatescholarships and bursaries to help you realise your academic ambitions.
- English language requirement for entry to this programme is IELTS 6.5 with no component lower than 6.0.
- The B.I.B. defines a Language Core consisting of the required 4.0 credits in the language of specialization.
Students will engage in an approved international experience, abroad or within Canada, that fosters the development of a global mindset. Capital investment and financing decisions in the context of risk and return tradeoffs. Mergers, corporate restructuring, the theory of principal-agent relationships, and financial planning, forecasting, and control.