Financial Economics

Explore how financial systems & markets shape economies & everyday life. Develop skills in economics & finance, with optional placement or study abroad. The BA Financial Economics is a three-year degree, or four years with an optional placement or study abroad year.

You’ll study how financial systems work, how markets allocate capital, and how financial decisions shape economies, governments, and everyday life. Combining core economic reasoning with applied financial insight, you’ll develop the skills to understand markets, institutions, and policy - and to interpret financial events with clarity, context, and confidence. The BA Financial Economics gives you the insight to understand how money, markets, and financial institutions shape the real economy - and the judgement to assess their impact beyond the headlines.

This degree is about finance with meaning: not just prices and products, but how financial systems affect people, opportunity, stability, and long-term economic outcomes. You’ll explore how banks, financial markets, currencies, and contracts operate, and how financial shocks spread through economies to affect employment, housing, inequality, and growth. You’ll learn why financial crises happen, how financial systems are regulated, and how policy and institutions can either amplify risk or promote stability.