MSc Quantitative Financial Economics is a one year applied training degree designed to develop your knowledge and understanding of the economics of quantitative financial economics with an emphasis on financial markets and asset pricing models. The course provides you with a firm grasp of some of the methods, models and techniques currently used by firms in the financial services sector and beyond. You will take compulsory modules in economics, financial econometrics, financial markets, international finance and risk management and trading. You will also have the opportunity to study specialist modules, including Financial Markets – a technical module involving the study of financial models that can explain equilibrium asset prices and the term structure of interest rates; and Risk Management and Trading – which includes an introduction to techniques designed to measure market and credit risk and provide you with an insight into how trader behaviour contributes to bubbles and crashes. It is appropriate either for graduates with no economics background who wish to understand how markets work and to develop the analytical skills of an economist, or for graduates in economics who wish to develop specialist expertise without committing to full research training. This course provides training that places specialist areas in a wider economic context and shows how the insight from economics can improve workplace performance.