BE937-6-FY-CO:
Finance Research Project
2017/18
Essex Business School
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Thursday 05 October 2017
Friday 29 June 2018
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Requisites for this module
BE311 and BE313 and BE314
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BSC N390 Banking and Finance,
BSC N392 Banking and Finance (Including Placement Year),
BSC NH90 Banking and Finance (Including Year Abroad),
BSC N300 Finance,
BSC N301 Finance (Including Foundation Year),
BSC N302 Finance (Including Year Abroad),
BSC N304 Finance (Including Placement Year)
This module seeks to bring together knowledge and understanding gained during the finance courses and enables students to apply and integrate their research skills, with a view to critically investigate a contemporary issue in the broad area of finance.
The Finance capstone project is an independent, self-directed project which builds on earlier modules. Students will be provided with a list of suitable topics and be allocated a supervisor accordingly. By the end of this module, students will have developed their research skills, competencies and knowledge, which will enable them to engage in situations simulating real-life professional tasks and assignments.
The module aims to enable students to develop a deep understanding of a finance issue that is of interest to academia, companies, organisations, government and/or society more broadly. It will rely on the knowledge and skills imparted in core and compulsory modules and reinforce the research-led and critical mind-set that is a hallmark of Essex graduates. The project provides the opportunity to final year students to reflect on the application of finance theories and to develop a critical understanding of the contemporary issues in the finance area.
In their final year, students undertake an individual research project under the supervision of a member of staff. Students will be allocated a supervisor in the field of their project at the beginning of the Autumn term. The supervision entails two 30-minutes meetings with the supervisor in the Autumn term (weeks 3 and 7) and two 30-minutes meetings in the Spring term (weeks 17 and 21). Students may choose the topic from a list provided to them or on their own, provided it is accepted by their supervisor. The project may take the form of a piece of empirical work, an extensive literature review or a case study. In the Autumn term, students will attend a series of lectures designed to equip them with the tools to undertake the project. In particular, students that have chosen to conduct and empirical work and are not taking BE333 Empirical Methods in Finance have the opportunity to attend two sessions on the use econometric package (Eviews). At the end of the Autumn term, students are expected to produce a first draft, outlining the structure of their dissertation, that will be marked. Students will then present their further elaborated plans and literature review in oral presentations scheduled in the Spring term. In their presentations, students are expected to incorporate feedback received on their first draft. Students will submit a draft of their final project to their supervisor in week 22 and they will receive informal detailed feedback. The final submission of the complete project is at the end of the Spring term.
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-9 weeks*1 hour lectures/drop in sessions in Autumn term;
-10 weeks*1 hour drop in sessions for support with econometric packages in Spring term;
-Structured supervision: 2 meetings with the supervisor, allocated to students according to the topic of their project, in the Autumn term and 2 meetings with the supervisor in the Spring term, plus one informal detailed feedback on the draft prior to final submission.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
ORAL PRESENTATION |
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15% |
| Coursework |
DRAFT OUTLINE |
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15% |
| Coursework |
FINAL DISSERTATION |
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70% |
| Exam |
Reassessment Main exam: 120 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Jose Linares Zegarra, email: jmlina@essex.ac.uk.
Sina Erdal, Hardy Thomas, Jason Cen, Jose Linares Zegarra, Andrew Wood, Radu Manac
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Dr Apostolos Kourtis
The University of East Anglia
Senior Lecturer in Finance
Dr Athanasios Verousis
The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Finance
Available via Moodle
Of 71 hours, 50 (70.4%) hours available to students:
21 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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