Teaching Financial Econometrics to Students Converting to Finance

Financial econometrics is a dynamic discipline that began to take on its present form around the turn of the century. Since then it has found a permanent position as a popular course sequence in both undergraduate and graduate teaching programs in economics, finance, and business schools. Because of the breadth of the subject’s foundations, its extensive coverage in applications and because these courses attract a wide range of students with accompanying interests and skill sets that cover diverse areas and technical capabilities, teaching financial econometrics presents many challenges to the university educator. This chapter addresses some of these challenges, provides helpful guidelines to educators, and draws on the combined experience of the authors as teachers and researchers of modern financial econometrics as well as their recent textbook Financial Econometric Modeling (Hurn et al., 2021). The focus is on students converting to finance and econometrics with limited technical background