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Finance Program

                    

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Courses 2010-11

 

In September, Master in Finance students are required to take the Mathematics and Statistics review course. Another review course, Computer Tools is highly recommended. To find out more about these course, click here.

 

Review Course in Maths and Statistics

Syllabus

 

Computer Tools Course

Syllabus

Schedule (both courses)

 

The Master degree requires the successful completion of 60 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credits of graduate courses (6 credits are approximately equivalent to 40 hours).  The academic performance of each student is reviewed regularly. Attention is given to the maintenance of normal academic progress, through a combination of formal written examinations and coursework. Core courses will award grades. Some optional courses may be evaluated on a pass/fail or pass with honors/pass/fail basis.

 

Fall Term: Compulsory

CourseECTSProfessor
Stochastic Processes

6

O. Papaspiliopoulos
Asset Pricing

6

Francisco Peñaranda
Statistics and Econometrics for Finance

9


Vasco Carvalho

Kurt Schmidheiny

 

Winter Term: Compulsory

CourseECTSProfessor
 Corporate Finance 6

Albert Banal

 Empirical Finance6

Gonzalo Rubio

Enrique Sentana

 

Winter Term: Electives (choose one)

 Course ECTS Professor
Continuous-time Finance 6

 Sebastian del Baño

Elisa Alòs

Thomas Björk

Financial Institutions Management
6
 Xavier Freixas
 

Spring Term: Compulsory

CourseECTSProfessor
Master Project
 6Tutor
Financial Institutions Seminars
 -TBA - view past speakers

 

Spring Term: Electives (choose a total of 15 ECTS)

CourseECTSProfessor
Banking Theory 6
Xavier Freixas
Investments in Emerging Markets and Hedge Funds
6

Javier Gil-Bazo

 Angel Leon

Financial Engineering

3

Manuel Moreno

Financial Risk Forecasting 3
Jon Danielsson
Market Microstructure
 3

Roberto Pascual

 Ariadna Dumitrescu

Topics in Finance I 6

Ander Pérez

Andrea Caggese

Topics in Finance II  6 Alberto Martin

 

Financial Institutions Seminars

The Finance master program offers its students the opportunity to meet with professionals from top financial institutions. Seminars cover areas such as Hedge Funds, Venture Captital, Central Banks Reserve Management, Investment Banking, etc.

During these seminars, our guest speakers share with students the insights of their organizations and provide their views on recent developments in their industry segment.


The Financial Institutions Seminars have featured representatives from organizations such as Credit Swiss First Boston (CSFB), Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers, and Omega Capital, among others.

Master Degree in Economics and Finance awarded jointly by:

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Program Spotlight Video

Why study finance in the current economic environment? Why study it in Barcelona? Students tell us what they think. Watch video (01:55)

 

Watch the video
 Ekin Teymen '09 
 

Also of interest:

 

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Finance Brochure [pdf]
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