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It is based on the Master Education and Examination Regulations (EER). In case of any discrepancies, the EER is leading!
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Master Financial Economics
Specialisation Asset Pricing 2025-2026

Year 1 Master Financial Economics - Specialisation Asset Pricing 2025-2026 (start in September)
Year S1 P1 EBC4023 ECB and Monetary Policy EBC4097 Quantitative Techniques for Financial Economics EBS4029 Writing a Master's Thesis Proposal: Financial Economics
P2 EBC4054 Institutional Investors Elective
P3    
S2 P4 EBC4058 Fixed Income Management   EMTH0001 Master's Thesis or ETIP0001 Thesis-Internship Programme 1
P5 EBC4010 Empirical Analysis of Financial Markets  
P6  

1 Master's Thesis will be registered by the Education and Exams Office once you have completed the prerequisite skill EBS4029.
The Thesis-Internship Programme allows for an alternative way to write your thesis at a company.

For the full text, see Chapter XIV SBE Master’s study programmes from the Master Education and Examination Regulations for academic year 2025-2026.

The Master’s exam for the study programme Master of Science in Financial Economics, specialisation Asset Pricing, specialisation Banking and specialisation Financial Analysis is composed of three (3) compulsory courses of 6.5 ECTS credits per course common to all specialisations, two (2) compulsory specialisation courses (amongst them one (1) integration course), which are specific to that specialisation, of 6.5 ECTS credits per course, one (1) elective course of 6.5 ECTS credits per course, one (1) compulsory skills training of 4.0 ECTS credits, and the Master’s thesis of 17.0 ECTS credits. In order to meet the exam requirements for one of the specialisations mentioned under 4 of this Article, within the available space for elective courses in the Master of Science in the FINEC programme, students need to choose one (1) elective course from the Financial Economics electives listed in Study Outline on SBE Student Intranet.