Master Economic and Financial Research | Specialisation Econometrics 2024-2025

Year 1 Master Economic and Financial Research \| Specialisation Econometrics
Year	S1	P1	EBC4004 Stochastic Processes	EBC4188 Game Theory and Optimisation or Elective or Core Course	EBS4032 World of Research
		P2	EBC4008 Time Series and Dynamic Econometrics or EBC4005 Collective Decision Making or EBC4049 Algorithms and Optimisation	Elective or Core Course
		P3	EBS4044 Computational Research Skills (Research Master)
	S2	P4	EBC4006 Panel Data Econometrics or EBC4007 Industrial Economics or EBC4051 Advanced Operations Research	Elective or Core Course
		P5	EBC4010 Empirical Analysis of Financial Market or EBC4009 Equilibrium Theory and Financial markets or EBC4187 Operations Research Applications	Elective or Core Course
		P6

Year 2 Master Economic and Financial Research \| Specialisation Econometrics
Year	S1	P1	Elective	Elective
		P2	Elective	Elective
		P3	EBS4021 Research Communication Skills
	S2	P4	EMTH0005 Master's Thesis or Thesis Internship Programme
		P5
		P6		EBS4024 Writing a Referee Report

EBS4024 is only available to Research Master students who are missing 2 ECTS or less in their study plan in order to graduate.
Small ECTS deficits may arise if students have taken courses outside UM with different ECTS per course.

Master's Thesis will be registered by the Education and Exams Office once you have completed the prerequisite skill EBS4021.

For the full text, see Chapter XIV SBE Master’s study programmes from the Master Education and Examination Regulations for academic year 2024-2025.

The Master of Science exam for the study programme in Economic and Financial Research, specialisation Econometrics5 is composed of four semesters. The first two semesters of the programme comprise four (4) courses of 6.5 ECTS credits per course, and four (4) elective courses of 6.5 ECTS credits per course, and two (2) compulsory skills trainings of 4.0 ECTS credits per skills training. The third and fourth semester consists of one (1) compulsory skills training of 4.0 ECTS credits, four (4) elective courses of 6.5 ECTS credits per course: these courses are offered at the SBE, or at selected universities (abroad), and in joint graduate programmes in which the SBE participates, and the Master’s thesis of 30.0 ECTS credits. In order to meet the exam requirements within the available space for elective courses in the Master of Science EFR, specialisation Econometrics programme, students need to choose eight (8) elective courses from the electives list, as provided in the Outline Study Programmes of the Economics and Financial Research programme as published on MySBE Intranet. Courses from the BR research master can also be taken as electives upon approval by GSBE and the Board of Examiners. In the fourth semester, an extra skills training of 4.0 ECTS credits is available for students who are missing 2.0 ECTS credits or less to graduate because of the combination of elective courses with different ECTS credits per course.