BU5565 - Empirical Methods in Financial Research

Credit Points: 15

Course Co-ordinator: Julian Williams

Pre-requisite(s): Students must be registered for Postgraduate programmes in Finance & Investment Management, Corporate Finance or Real Estate Finance and have successfully completed 1st semester courses.

Co-requisite(s): None.

Note(s): None.

The course will develop quantitative skills by focusing on key concepts and techniques used in the econometric analysis of financial data. From this framework the course aims to extend students' capacity to evaluate and analyse financial data.

12x 2-hour lectures and 11x 1-hour computer lab seminars.

2 hour written examination (80%); individual project report 2000 words (20%)