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Examination in Finance for the degree of Master of Philosophy, 2002: Notice

The Degree Committee for the Judge Institute of Management Studies give notice that in the academical year 2001-02 the subjects for examination in Finance for the M.Phil. Degree will be as listed below. The method of examination is shown for each subject.

Group 1 (compulsory subjects)

(1) Either  S300 Econometrics (three-hour written examination and a project)
or  S301 Quantitative methods in economics and finance (three-hour written examination and a project)
(2) MP2   Principles of finance (three-hour written examination)

Finance

One of the following shall be taken as a Group 1 subject. Additional Finance subjects may be selected as Group 2 (optional papers).

S402 Microeconomics for finance (two-hour examination)
S403 Theory of finance (three-hour examination)
S410 Topics in industrial and financial economics (two essays of 2,000 words)
MP14 Topics in empirical finance (Paper MP14 of the examination in Management Studies: one essay of 3,000 words and one project of 1,000 words)

Group 2 (optional papers)

Financial accounting

MF1 Introduction to financial reporting (two-hour written examination and one 2,000 word essay)
MP3 Financial reporting and capital markets (Paper MP3 of the examination in Management Studies: two essays of 2,000 words)

Financial engineering (Papers from Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, 2002)

Advanced financial models (one three-hour written examination)
Mathematical models in financial management (one two-hour written examination)
Actuarial statistics (one two-hour written examination)
Numerical solution of differential equations (one three-hour written examination)
Stochastic calculus and applications (one three-hour written examination)
Applied statistics (one three-hour written examination)

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Cambridge University Reporter, 24 October
Copyright © 2001 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.