Area
social Sciences
Sub-Discipline
Economy and business
University of Santiago, Chile
- City: Santiago,
- Municipality: Central Station,
- Region: Metropolitan Region
goals
General objective:
The overall objective of the Program is to train professionals capable of understanding the interrelationship between real economic variables and the financial sector through the analysis of the effects of economic policy on financial markets, for the purpose of making investment and financing decisions applied to different public and private institutions.
Specific objectives:
a) Apply economic and financial models in order to improve decision-making in public and private institutions.
b) Identify, project and explain the behavior of economic-financial variables in the national and international market through computational tools.
c) Analyze and predict the behavior of economic and financial agents from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Applicant Profile
Applicants must hold a professional degree and/or Bachelor's degree of at least eight semesters from a national or international university in the fields of engineering, finance, economics, or business administration. Additionally, applicants must demonstrate basic knowledge in finance, statistics, economics, and calculus.
Graduate profile
Graduates of the Master's Program in Financial Economics will be able to:
a) Identify and propose financial strategies based on the selection of appropriate financial market instruments for each scenario, supporting decision-making related to corporate financial management in an efficient and informed manner, taking into account the risks and financial and organizational implications within both public and private institutions.
b) Employ modern econometric and statistical tools to identify the most relevant economic and financial variables in the national economy in order to explain and/or predict the behavior of the variables of interest, based on a solid understanding of the interaction between the national financial market and the global economy.
c) Use an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing the behavior of economic agents to analyze and predict their effects on the financial market, considering contemporary theoretical models and experimental data on the effects that different economic and psychological variables have on decision-making.
Lines of investigation
1. Economic and financial analysis 2. Applied econometric modeling 3. Interdisciplinary analysis of economic and financial decisions
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