Newcastle University

Aims

The module seeks to:
- provide the technical skills necessary to pursue empirical research in economics and finance;
- provide the tools required to predict, model and analyse financial markets and their associated economic behaviour;
- offer the opportunity to develop some key skills.

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Outline Of Syllabus

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Teaching Rationale And Relationship

-Lectures provide the basic technical structure of the methods introduced and an overview of the basic empirical economic and fincancial modelling methods
- Seminars provide an opportunity to enhance both theoretical and practical aspects of modelling
- Workshops provide hands-on computer based experience of modelling exercises.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Written exam to assess the theoretical and empirical approach to financial econometrics.

Reassessment will be 100% exam.