BU5025 - Quantitative Methods

Credit Points: 15

Course Co-ordinator: Professor Euan Phimister

Pre-requisite(s): Students must be registered on the Postgraduate programme in International Business, energy & Petroleum.

Co-requisite(s): None.

Note(s): The first half of this course will be common and taught in conjunction with BU5006, Introductory Econometrics for Finance. The two course will split in mid-semester with the latter half being taught separately.

This course aims to provide an introduction to econometric and mathematical methods used in economics and finance.

1x 2hr lecture per week, for 12 weeks. 1x 1hr tutorial per week, for 6 weeks.

1x 2hr written examination (80%), and 1x assignment (20%).
Resit: 100% on 2hr written examination capped at CAS 9.