business and econ programs at Ivys

shyboy13
Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:45:30 +0000

Econ and finance can be related or they cannot be related. If someone majors in econ they can take classes like wage theory, political economics, and history of economic thought that have nothing to do with finance. But, they can also take classes like mathematical finance, forecasting, and financial markets that can be found in any finance curriculum. In fact, I believe modern finance gets most of its material from research economists. Many professors of finance have PhD’s in economics.

Alexandres list of economics departments is pretty good. I have a masters degree in econ and thus happen to know a little bit about the subject and what programs are strong.