A curriculum that builds expertise across financial fields
The Financial Economics specialisation offers a flexible and rigorous curriculum that allows you to explore a wide range of topics essential to modern finance. The programme is structured across five blocks of eight weeks and includes core courses, electives, seminars, and a master thesis.
Programme structure
- Core courses and electives introduce key topics in corporate finance, investments, and financial innovation, and prepare you for the seminars.
- Seminars are intensive and interactive. You will present literature, analyse cases, and engage in discussions. Active participation is essential.
- Master thesis is written individually in the final block, under close supervision.
Curriculum overview
- 33% Corporate Finance
- 33% Investments
- 33% Financial Innovation
In class
In class, you will work on real-world cases that mirror the challenges faced by financial professionals. For example:
How do you decide on a company acquisition?
You will learn how to value a company, assess its strategy and business model, evaluate industry competition, and forecast cash flows. You will also explore financing options and bidding strategies. In one case, you will work with insights from experienced private equity investors and investment bankers to develop an optimal acquisition strategy—just as you would in practice.
Study schedule
The Take-Off is the introduction event for all new students of Erasmus School of Economics. During this interesting introduction event, you will be provided with useful practical information and receive an introduction to your studies, meet your fellow students and our School.
Students choose six of the listed courses (24 ec) or five of the listed courses (20 ec) and one other Economics and Business master’s course (4 ec), with the exception of the core courses from the specialisation Data Science and Marketing Analytics.
In addition, students are advised to follow the "Workshop on Sustainable Finance and Business Ethics" (0 ec).
- Advanced Corporate Finance and Strategy
- Asset Pricing
- Advanced Money, Credit and Banking
- Advanced Investments
- Advanced Corporate Finance and Governance
- Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrencies
- Financial Risk Management
- Advanced Behavioural Finance
- Fixed Income Securities and Portfolio Management
- International Finance
- Empirical Methods for Finance
Students choose two seminars (20 ec) from the listed seminars:
- Seminar Advanced Investments
- Seminar Behavioural Investing
- Seminar Four Centuries of Finance
- Seminar Data Science in Finance
- Seminar Advanced Corporate Finance: Private Equity
- Seminar Risk Management
- Seminar Advanced Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance
- Seminar Advanced Corporate Finance: Corporate Governance
- Seminar Advanced Money, Credit and Banking
- Seminar Finance for Sustainability
- Seminar Behavioural Finance
- Seminar Institutional Asset Management
- Seminar Topics in FinTech
- Seminar Commodity Trading
- Seminar International Financial Markets
The thesis is an individual assignment about a subject from your Master's specialisation. More information about thesis subjects, thesis supervisors and the writing process can be found on the Master thesis website.
Disclaimer
This overview provides a general impression of the 2026-2027 curriculum. It is not the current study schedule. Enrolled students can find the most up-to-date version on MyEUR. Please note that minor changes may occur in future academic years.