PhD Finance

[NeFall]

How important is economic classes in getting into a top PhD Finance program such as Game Theory, Intermediate Micro and Macro, Econometrics, etc?

[rcwlhk]

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Actually, if I may add to this question; if one has to choose between more math courses or graduate level economics courses (i.e. the ones as listed by NeFall), what should one choose?

Thx!

[ginmanga]

I think background in micro and econometrics is a plus. By looking at some b-schools websites you can probably find this out.

At Goizueta they list as "Recommended Pre-program course work" the following: Math(calc, real analysis, lin algebra), statistics and econometrics, and microeconomics.

I think these should be very standard across other b-schools.

[Prawler]

Well in my opinion, Micro, Game Theory, Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, any variation of calculus, matrix algebra is considered in applications.

[rcwlhk]

So it would seem that econ courses > math courses, all else being equal?

Now, for the sake of pushing this discussion further, what is more important?

Pure Maths (i.e. Real Analysis, Measure Theory, Functional Analysis, etc)

OR

Economics (i.e. Micro, Game Theory, Econometrics, etc)

[Prawler]

I don't think that you will face a situation in which all else are equal.
Both mathematical and economical courses are important, but for Finance Econometrics, Pure Math and research you have done in these courses are more important in my opinion.