This module will provide transferable research skills, set in the context of recent developments in the Financial Economics academic literature. It will...

Topics in Financial Economics (MSIN0234)

This module will provide transferable research skills, set in the context of recent developments in the Financial Economics academic literature. It will consist of two parts. Part A will relate recent developments in Financial Intermediation and Regulation, and advances in Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance, to the existing literature and especially to seminal contributions to the field. Part B will be linked to UCL Finance Seminars (joint between the School of Management and the Department of Economics), where world leading experts come to present their current research (e.g., in 2018-2019, speakers came from institutions such as Yale, Berkeley, Chicago and Columbia, and included Nobel laureates).

Since the building of explicit models for analysing decisions is an important task for every manager, the first part of the module will focus on different...

Decision Making and Analytics (MSIN0116)

Since the building of explicit models for analysing decisions is an important task for every manager, the first part of the module will focus on different techniques used for this decision-making process. Sessions are devoted to modelling concepts that are applicable to a variety of different management situations. Modelling can be seen as a kind of art in which one needs to use one's creativity, imagination and business understanding, the modeller also needs to have strong technical knowledge. The first part of the course brings a mix of the two and will focus on the different techniques that can be used in modelling.
The second part of the module investigates how leading companies are using data and analytics to improve their strategy processes as well as fundamental tenets of data and analytics. The second part of the module also exposes students to aspects of strategy that are tied to data and analytics.