MSc Financial Economics

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MSc (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £16,600
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £35,300

The fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

Fees for entry are subject to yearly review. The University reserves the right to increase your tuition fee by up to 7% each year for courses lasting more than one year, including to reflect rising costs associated with delivering our educational and wider student experience. Postgraduate fees information .

Always contact the admissions team if you are unsure which fee applies to your qualification award and method of attendance.

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

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The aim of this course is to introduce students to the models and methods that form the core of modern
macroeconomics.

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the models and methods that form the core of modern macroeconomics.

At the end of this course, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding (including relevant policy applications) in macroeconomic topics such as economic growth, business cycles, consumption and savings, labour markets, inflation, monetary policy, and fiscal policy. 

Lectures and Tutorials

Mid-term exam: 30%

Final exam: 70%

Main textbook:

David Romer, Advanced Macroeconomics, 5 th edition, McGraw-Hill Education, 2019 (ISBN 978- 1260185218)

Other textbooks:

Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, 4th Edition, MIT Press, 2018 (ISBN 978-0262038669)

Jordi Galí, Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle: An Introduction to the New Keynesian Framework and Its Applications, 2nd Edition, 2015 (ISBN 978-0691164786)