Computational Economics, Financial Markets and Policy (Taught)

The financial crisis and global recession have triggered a search for new perspectives in economics training that can deal with the challenges posed by highly interconnected and globalised financial and industrial organisations. Our course provides a revolutionary way to address the many issues raised in macroeconomics and financial regulation. By using a multi-agent computational and simulation modelling approach to complement your work in statistics and econometrics, you investigate a wide array of economic phenomena that can also aid in policy design. You will be given laboratory based instruction to build a range of agent based models that include global macro-net models, systemic risk analysis with financial networks and market micro-structure of stock markets. Our Expert Lecture module gives you exposure to policy oriented issues given by experts and practitioners.