MSc Finance

Suggested pre-programme reading

Offer-holders sometimes ask if they can do any preparation before joining the course. This typically means any suggested pre-reading that you could do to bring yourselves reasonably up to speed on a topic.

For any students who wish to prepare prior to joining the course, we can recommend the following textbooks which offer an abridged version of much of the content we cover on the programme:

• Bodie, Z; Kane, A; Marcus, A. (2014). Investments. Global Edition. McGraw-Hill
• Berk, J; DeMarzo, P. (2019). Corporate Finance. Global Edition, 5th Edition. Pearson
• Wooldridge, J. (2019). Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, 7th Edition. Cengage Learning

Additional pre-programme reading for MSc Finance (Financial Technology and Banking)

• Antonopoulous, A.; Wood, G. (2019). Mastering Ethereum. O’Reilly.
• Pompella, M; Matousek, R. (2021). The Palgrave Handbook of FinTech and Blockchain. Springer.
• Harvey, C; Ramachandran, A; Santoro, J. (2021). DeFi and the Future of Finance. Wiley. Short version.