Are you looking for a career in banking and finance or would like to have a solid theoretical foundation for further PhD studies?
Become a Master of Financial Economics. Join the HSE International College of Economics and Finance for an information webinar on Tuesday, February 13th, 2018 from 2:00 p.m. to 3 p.m.
The webinar is an opportunity to gain more insight into the Master programme and chance to ask our international faculty your questions live! This online information session is targeted at students in their final years of a bachelor programme.
The Master’s in Financial Economics is a unique 2-year programme successfully implemented in collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) since 2007. Since 2017 the MSc in Financial Economics has developed into an international joint programme offering its students a double-degree track with LUISS, a leading private Italian university placed 1st in the 2017 Sole 24 Ore Ranking of Italian Universities. The HSE ICEF diverse team of teaching and research fellows consists of PhD holders of top-ranked universities of the world.
The programme is designed for candidates with a Bachelor degree or equivalent with concentration on economics and quantitative subjects and at least a year of university level mathematics and statistics.
Our graduates build their careers as economists or analysts in investment banking, strategic consulting and real economy worldwide (Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company, Oliver Wyman, Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs. A growing part of them get admission to leading PhD programmes abroad (LSE, University of Oxford, MIT, University of Cambridge, University of California, Berkeley, Imperial College London, Bocconi University) and proceed with their academic career.
Speaker:
Maxim Nikitin is an Academic Supervisor of the MSc programme in Financial Economics and a tenured Professor of Economics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His research focuses on law and economics and has published in leading international journals including Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the Canadian Economic Association and the Econometric Society.
He graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University with the Candidate of Sciences degree in Economics and received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh.
Udara Peiris is an academic economist and a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His research focuses on macroeconomics, monetary policy and financial stability and has published in leading international journals including Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Financial Stability and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He has presented his research in universities and institutions around the world including the IMF, Bank of England and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserver System.
He completed his MSc with distinction and PhD in Financial Economics at the Said Business School and University College at the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar. He completed his Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Finance at the University of New South Wales.
