Semester one

Core
Microeconomic Analysis 
Microeconomics is concerned with the behaviour of individuals, households and firms, and their interactions. This module aims to develop the skills required for you to analyse microeconomic problems and theories. Provide an introduction to recent developments in advanced microeconomics. Develop your mathematical and analytical skills and further develop your skills of critical evaluation and appraisal in the context of advanced microeconomic theory.

Macroeconomic Analysis
This module aims to build a coherent microeconomics based framework for understanding macroeconomics and to analyse the aims of monetary policy in advanced economies, including the design of optimal monetary policy. It aims to provide students with an advanced understanding of fiscal policy, debt dynamics with references to sovereign debt crises and introduces students to the concept of financial frictions in the context of the recent financial crisis.

Econometric Methods
This modules aims to provide thorough grounding in econometric techniques of the classical linear regression model; hypothesis testing and problems of non-spherical disturbances; introduce students to topics in microeconometrics including modelling discrete binary variables, censoring and sample selection; introduce students to topics in macroeconometrics including economic forecasting, stationarity, and cointegration; enable students to grasp the essentials of regression output to allow them to access journal articles; develop experience of using specialist econometric software STATA.

Optional
Modern Theory of Banking & Finance
The aim of this module is to introduce you to concepts associated with money, financial institutions, monetary policy and the economy. Particular attention will be paid to the role of money and interest rates in the economy and how they are interconnected to determine monetary policy.

Health Economics
The aim of this module is to apply economic analysis to the market for health and health care and develop the skills required for the analysis of key issues in health economics.

The content of our courses is reviewed annually to make sure it is up-to-date and relevant. Individual modules are occasionally updated or withdrawn. This is in response to discoveries through our world-leading research, funding changes, professional accreditation requirements, student or employer feedback, outcomes of reviews, and variations in staff or student numbers. In the event of any change we'll consult and inform students in good time and take reasonable steps to minimise disruption.

Semester two

Core modules
Applied Microeconometrics
Applied Microeconometrics builds on the skills provided in Econometric Methods in order to develop further your econometric skills, using examples from different areas of applied microeconomics.

Public Economics
The module provides you with a comprehensive grounding in public economics. Government policies, through fiscal policy instruments, can have a massive impact in the allocation of resources and the distribution of income in the economy.

This module evaluates the government’s ability to identify and achieve more efficient and equitable outcomes than the situation without intervention. Then it seeks to apply the theory in the analysis of real world public policy programmes, which might include fiscal redistribution, education and health.

Public Policy Evaluation
This module offers a grounding in public policy issues at local, regional and global levels, and explains various possible techniques of quantitative evaluation that are commonly used in economics and applied in the ‘real world’. Examples are drawn from health, labour, education, and development economics.

Optional 
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Applied Macroeconometrics
The module aims to; enable you to understand recent applied literature in core journals of macroeconomics and finance which uses time series methods and prepare you for possible later research involving time series.

Development Finance
Development Finance aims to give you the skills necessary to analyse the main sources of financing for development and the manner in which they may optimally contribute to the development process.

Asset Pricing
Asset Pricing aims to introduce you to advanced principles of derivative asset pricing in finance theory and to understand the use of derivatives in risk management.

Industrial Organisation
This module covers contemporary topics in Industrial Organisation (IO) with a particular emphasis on the role of economic analysis in strategic decision making by senior managers.

Monetary Economics
Monetary Economics aims: to provide a formal analysis of Monetary Economics and an understanding of how monetary policy works, to provide an understanding of the role of monetary policy in the macro economy, to expose students to the latest theoretical developments in monetary theory and policy, to equip students with the analytical framework for solving dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models, to understand some of the limitations of monetary policy.

International Trade
International Trade covers the key theoretical models in international trade and search for evidence for and against them. The module puts the same weight on theory and on empirical evidence. During the module you will use a number of analytical tools as well as different empirical methods for analysing international trade, and its related policy issues.

The content of our courses is reviewed annually to make sure it is up-to-date and relevant. Individual modules are occasionally updated or withdrawn. This is in response to discoveries through our world-leading research, funding changes, professional accreditation requirements, student or employer feedback, outcomes of reviews, and variations in staff or student numbers. In the event of any change we'll consult and inform students in good time and take reasonable steps to minimise disruption.

Dissertation

Once you've successfully completed your taught modules, you will need to produce a dissertation of no longer than 10,000 words. The dissertation presents your research findings on an approved topic of your choice, which is related to the course and chosen in consultation with academic staff. Normally this involves the equivalent of at least ten weeks' full-time study. You must achieve a pass mark at the dissertation stage to be awarded an Masters.

During the second semester, we'll support you in developing a suitable and detailed proposal for your dissertation. The dissertation is then supervised through a series of research seminars and workshops. It tests your ability to apply the skills developed in the taught part of the programme to put together an original and academically critical and robust piece of research.