Program Description
This Middlesex University degree will equip students with key skills in economics, including data analysis, group presentation and discussion, writing and report preparation. It's been designed for students who are interested in starting up their own businesses, involved in running and managing businesses or becoming financial and economic analysts.
Students will gain a working knowledge of both theoretical and empirical methods that can be applied to the industry and world context. The topics they'll study include:
- Individual and firm behaviour under uncertainty
- Price determinism and discrimination
- Game theory and oligopolistic pricing using game theory
- World financial markets
- Regulators and financial instruments
- Securities analysis and investment
- Econometrics and sampling techniques
- Risk and probability distributions
Students will also develop a robust ability to use Excel, Stata and other statistical software, interpret financial data and write business reports.
