Courses in Financial Economics major

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Courses in Financial Economics major

Select courses equivalent to 45 ECTS according to the plan below for a major in Financial Economics. Together with your master thesis (30ECTS), this constitutes your major.

The core courses in the master's programme provide a foundation for the elective courses in finance. You are encouraged to take the core courses and the course in empirical methods during the two first terms to have flexibility in your choice of electives.

Please note: All students starting in the autumn of 2024 and later are required to take at least 7,5 ECTS credits from the courses designated "Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability" (ERS).

Select your starting year/semester

Major in Financial Economics

Minimum 15 ECTS credits

Code Name Stp Semester
FIE400E FIE400E Investments 7,5 Autumn Spring
FIE400N FIE400N Investments (N) 7,5 Autumn
FIE402 FIE402 Corporate Finance 7,5 Autumn Spring

Empirical methods - choose one

Code Name Stp Semester
ECN402 ECN402 Econometrics 7,5 Autumn Spring
FIE401 FIE401 Financial Econometrics 7,5 Autumn Spring

Electives - 22,5 stp

Code Name Stp Semester
ACC421A ACC421A Valuation (N) 7,5 Spring
ACC421B ACC421B Valuation (N) 7,5 Autumn
ACC421E ACC421E Valuation with financial statement analysis 7,5
BAN432 BAN432 Applied Textual Data Analysis for Business and Finance 7,5
ECN430 ECN430 Empirical Macroeconomics and Finance 7,5 Spring
ECO420 ECO420 Corporate Governance 7,5 Spring
ECO421 ECO421 Asset Pricing 7,5 Autumn
ECO422 ECO422 Advanced Corporate Finance 7,5 Autumn
ECO423 ECO423 Advanced Derivatives 7,5
FIE403 FIE403 Business Cycle Analysis and Macroeconomic Policies (E/N) 7,5 Autumn Spring
FIE420 FIE420 Money and Banking (N) 7,5 Autumn
FIE421 FIE421 Macroeconomic Analysis and Sustainability 7,5 Spring
FIE423 FIE423 Fixed Income (N) 7,5 Spring
FIE425 FIE425 Derivatives and Risk Management 7,5 Autumn
FIE426 FIE426 Asset Management (N) 7,5 Spring
FIE431 FIE431 Crashes and Crises (N) 7,5 Autumn
FIE432 FIE432 Private Finance (N) 7,5 Autumn
FIE432E FIE432E Personal Finance and Taxation 7,5 Spring
FIE433 FIE433 International Finance 7,5 Autumn
FIE434 FIE434 Behavioural Finance and Wealth Management 7,5 Spring
FIE435 FIE435 Financial Modelling with Excel 7,5 Spring
FIE436 FIE436 Venture Capital, Private Equity and IPO's 7,5 Spring
FIE437 FIE437 Valuation 7,5 Autumn
FIE441 FIE441 Taxes and Business Strategy 7,5 Spring
FIE442 FIE442 Growth and Architecture of Financial Systems 7,5 Autumn
FIE443 FIE443 Mergers and Acquisitions 7,5 Spring
FIE445 FIE445 Infrastructure and Project Finance 7,5 Spring
FIE446 FIE446 Financial Engineering 7,5
FIE447 FIE447 Trading, Liquidity, and Pricing in Securities Markets 7,5
FIE448 FIE448 Banking and Fintech 7,5
FIE450 FIE450 Programming with Applications in Finance 7,5
FIE451 FIE451Asset Management with Programming Applications (not offered) 7,5
FIE453 FIE453 Big Data with Applications to Finance 7,5
FIE457 FIE457 Entrepreneurial Finance 7,5
FIE458 FIE458 Deep Learning and LLMs with Applications to Finance 7,5
FIE459 FIE459 Sustainable Finance 7,5 Autumn
FIE460 FIE460 Ship Finance and Marine Insurance 7,5 Autumn
FIE461 FIE461 Risk and Insurance 7,5
FIE462 FIE462 Finance Innovations in Insurance 7,5 Spring
FIE463 FIE463 Numerical methods in Macroeconomics and Finance using Python 7,5 Spring

Master's Thesis

Code Name Stp Semester
FIETHE FIETHE Independent work/thesis 30,0