Careers in business and finance often require an economic approach. The University of Essex MSc Financial and Business Economics allows students to study the economic principles that are at the heart of finance and business, and to develop an awareness of their applications.

Students investigate topics including: topics in corporate finance, how to raise funds to maintain the activity of a firm, asset pricing algebra, defining debt and equity, and Modigliani-Miller ireelevance theorems.

Essex is top 5 in the UK for research, with over 90% rated as “world-leading” or “internationally excellent”. Much of this world-class research is related to policy, and they have particular strengths in the areas of: game theory and strategic interactions, theoretical and applied econometrics, and labour economics. The quality of Essex’s work is reflected in their stream of publications in high-profile academic journals, including American Economic Review, Econometrica, and Review of Economic Studies.