The module is designed to help you integrate your learning from across the programme and “connect the dots” between theory and practice. The module is designed to develop your ability to plan and execute market- relevant research, addressing a real problem or issue, which you will conceive and work through as part of your industry experience.

Professor Richard Payne works in the areas of empirical market microstructure and empirical asset pricing. He has written on topics that include the determination of exchange rates, the links between exchange rates and equity index returns, algorithmic trading and market dynamics, the effects of transparency in equity markets and the effects of short selling on equity markets.