MSc in Economics and Business Administration in Finance and Investments
Household Finance
About the course
What you will learn
Students should come away from this course with the foundational knowledge that is common to most researchers within the field of household finance, along with a sense of where the active research frontier in the field lies. An important secondary objective of the course is to teach students the art of empirical research: (1) identifying important and interesting questions, (2) identifying the challenges to answering those questions convincingly, (3) understanding common empirical methodologies to overcome those challenges, along with each method’s strengths and weaknesses. The last part will include learning how big data is being harnessed to answer some of the most pressing questions of our time. Another objective of the course (and benefit to the students) is that students should be able to base their master thesis on the final assignment.