Finance and Economics The University of Milan

Overview

The study program is designed to provide students with a solid background through the development of topics of economic theory, analysis of financial markets and the theory of decision making under risk and uncertainty. It includes study of financial markets from both the point of view of international law, history and economics.

The first year courses, common to both curricula, also provide capabilities in statistics, mathematics and computational techniques for the analysis of financial data and economic time series.

The second year of the master program is organized in two curricula. The first, Quantitative Economics, is dedicated to the training of professional economists capable of operating at national/international, public/private institutions (including the academia) or at the level of central government in both the financial and economic spheres.

The second curriculum, named Quantitative Finance, is aimed at preparing financial specialists capable of operating in the areas of pricing of derivatives, portfolio management, risk management and control in the financial sector intended in a broad sense.

Career

• The master course in Finance and Economics from The University of Milan, aims at forming the following professional profiles.

• Consultant and financial adviser

• Operator and analyst of financial markets

• Academic researcher, or researcher in research-departments within economic and financial institutions, both national and international

• Operators in the management and implementation of programs and projects of international development