PGT Course Information

Your individual timetable will be to see online via Campus Connect and you candownload this to a personal calendar if you wish. We advise that the timetable is regularly checked as it links to the live Timetabling system, so will update automatically to reflect any changes. Timetable changes within two working days of the event will be notified by email to your Royal Holloway account.

You will recieve seperate communciations by email and on Campus Connect about exactly how to access and download your timetable and further information can be found here.

Seminars start week commencing 2nd September 2017. You will be notified of your seminar group before that time.

PGT Assessment Deadlines V2

The progression requirements for the Masters programmes offered can be found here.

The personal adviser for all postgraduate taught students is Dr Vinay Nundlall.

PGT Resource Summary

The aim of this course is to give students the mathematical background necessary for studying and working in economics. The mathematical part of the course will cover basic analytical methods with a particular emphasis on optimisation, but will also introduce basic matrix analysis.

This module includes three elements, all of which have some contribution to your final mark for this module; 10,000 word Dissertation, Research Methods course and Stata Course.

You will be equipped with the necessary skills required for research. While conducting research sounds like an easy task, it is paved with various difficulties. This course aims to help you avoid these traps so that you can conduct an efficient piece of research (i.e. dissertation) at the end of your degree.

The dissertation (EC5000/5001) is an original piece of work that students undertake in the summer term, conditional upon passing all the courses in which the students are examined. It is an extended essay based on empirical investigation and is up to 10,000 words in length.. A Research Methods course which is part of EC5000 will take place in the second half of the autumn term. In addition a Stata course will take place in Week 2. For MSc Economics students, part of the grade in the dissertation will come from an individual presentation of the dissertation proposal. This presentation will take place in the Spring Term.

This course aims to analyse how corporate governance structures influence the behaviour of the relevant actors inside and outside of organisations. As both internal and external systems of corporate governance are explored, the module builds on the student's knowledge gained during their previous studies.

This is a course intended to familiarise students with the principal methods of econometric analysis. The emphasis is on applied econometrics and will try to ensure that you are comfortable when reading and evaluating the econometric work of others and that you can also produce good quality applied econometric work of your own.

The first half of the course is designed to ensure a sound understanding of the basics, assuming that you have already completed a core undergraduate course in econometrics. You will be introduced to the principles and assumptions underlying ordinary least squares. The second half of the term will then study the consequences of any departure from these assumptions, how to test for this and what to do about it.

The aim of this course is to give students a mathematical and statistical background necessary for studying Economics at postgraduate level. The course will cover basic analytical methods used in Economics and Finance with a particular emphasis on optimisation, but will also introduce basic matrix analysis and statistics.

Offered in the Autumn term,this course is a graduate level introduction to microeconomic theory. During the course, the students will learn the core tools that economists use to analyse problems of resource allocation in market settings. The topics include the theory of the optimising behaviour of producers and consumers, partial and general equilibrium theory, basic game theory, and the theory of oligopoly.

Offered in the Spring term, his course is a graduate level introduction to static and dynamic games, games with incomplete information, Bayesian decision theory, and common knowledge.

This course gives an introduction to modern intertemporal macroeconomics with an emphasis on the determinants of economic growth. During the course we will also develop and apply tools for dynamic economic analysis that are useful in all fields of economics.

The course aims to give students broad advanced-level training in the economics of policy evaluation. Students will be provided with the facility to apply economic models to evaluate actual policy interventions. By the end of the course students should be able to able to apply quantitative techniques and qualitative methods to evaluate actual policy interventions in particular fields and countries.

This course will cover selected topics in modern macroeconomics. It will cover theoretical and empirical analysis of (1) economic growth, (2) technological change, (3) inequality, and (4) time allocation.

The aims of this post-graduate level course in corporate finance theory and policy are to introduce students to the techniques used in financial decision making in the modern corporation. It describes how the corporation in the business environment appraises investment opportunities, raises finance to fund such projects and increases shareholder wealth via sound management and planning. The concepts developed in this course form the foundation of most elective finance courses.

The course is designed to provide students with the tools necessary for analyzing financial markets. It introduces students to the foundations of choice under uncertainty and then familiarizes them with the modern theory of asset pricing. Thereafter, a general approach to asset valuation, which builds on state contingent prices, is employed to introduce the fundamental concept of arbitrage pricing and the notion of market completeness.

The main objective of this course is to introduce students to the underlying theory and empirical evidence in portfolio management while familiarizing them with its practice in the financial sector. The techniques developed should be useful for both students interested in practicing professions such as asset management or financial planning and for those interested in research. The course blends portfolio theory with practical issues encountered in the investment process. Topics include identifying investor objectives and constraints, recognizing risk and return characteristics of investment vehicles, developing strategic asset allocations among equity, managing portfolio risk, increasing portfolio return and evaluating portfolio and manager performance relative to investment objectives and appropriate benchmarks. The focus is on understanding how funds are allocated in portfolio construction while other relevant topics such as security analysis, optimal portfolio selection and delegated portfolio management are also covered. The bias in the course will be towards equity markets rather than derivatives.

The aims of this course are to introduce the basic tools of quantitative analysis for financial markets. The course starts with a detailed treatment of probability theory, mathematical statistics and hypothesis testing. It then moves to the empirical analysis of financial time series and their applications. Students will also be taught the skills to estimate and interpret models and therefore, part of the course will be data-driven. As such, some time will be spent learning statistical and econometrics software.

This course introduces students to the main econometrics techniques used to study macro and financial time series. The core knowledge embodied in the course will enable students to understand and critically assess the extant literature in in empirical time series econometrics applied in the field of macroeconomics and finance. 

Students on MSc Economics and Statistics should note that this course is complemented by the course MT5436 Applied Probability.

The course provides a theoretical economic analysis of the economics of banking and the potential fragility of the financial system.  The course will include analysis of why banks exist and why bank runs may occur, with reference to the most recent global financial crisis of2007-2008

The course provides a theoretical economic analysis of the economics of banking and the potential fragility of the financial system. The course will include analysis of why banks exist and why bank runs may occur, with reference to the most recent global financial crisis of 2007-2008.

The aim of the post-graduate level course is to give a more in-depth look at corporate finance issues related with company evaluation and with the main user of those evaluations e.g. private equity and Venture Capitalist (VC). It also aims at giving a practical approach to key aspects of corporate valuation, for example leverage. Finally this course will detail the dynamic and the valuation specificity for the different stages of the company from the start up, to the IPO to the mature company doing merger and acquisition..