Courses and webinars
Online short courses
Our online short courses are taught via Zoom by CEA fellows and industry experts and are designed for researchers and financial industry professionals who want to learn or have a deeper understanding of the most topical issues in finance, financial econometrics and machine learning applied to finance.
We offer rigours and interactive training that mix theory and practical applications with econometric and data science software like Stata, Python, or Matlab. You will be encouraged to practice assignments and will be given feedback on your progress.
Applied Machine Learning and Data Science for Finance
Running from the 8th July 2025 to the 12th August 2025, every Tuesday (18:30 - 20.30, UK time)
Delivered by Dr Jan Novotny, Nomura, London, UK and CEA, Bayes Business School.
Link to Estore page to purchase the course: https://estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalogue/centre-for-econometric-analysis/centre-for-econometric-analysis/applied-machine-learning-for-finance
Quantum Machine Learning for Finance
Running from the 4th September 2025 to the 9th October 2025, every Thursday (18:30 - 20.30, UK time)
Delivered by Dr Jan Novotny, Nomura, London, UK and CEA, Bayes Business School.
Link to Estore page to purchase the course: Https://estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalogue/centre-for-econometric-analysis/centre-for-econometric-analysis/quantum-machine-learning-for-finance
Panel Data for Finance
Running from the 2nd September 2025 to the 23rd September 2025, every Tuesday (18:30 - 20.30, UK time)
Delivered by Professor Giovanni Urga, Bayes Business School.
Link to Estore page to purchase the course: https://estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalogue/centre-for-econometric-analysis/centre-for-econometric-analysis/panel-data-for-finance
Modelling and Forecasting Financial Markets
Running from the 23rd October 2025 to the 13th November 2025, every Thursday (18:30 - 20.30, UK time)
Delivered by Professor Giovanni Urga, Bayes Business School.
Link to Estore page to purchase the course: https://estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalogue/centre-for-econometric-analysis/centre-for-econometric-analysis/modelling-and-forecasting-financial-markets
Free Webinars
The Centre for Econometric Analysis (CEA) offer a series of free webinars, led by CEA research fellow Dr Elisabetta Pellini, which is a great way to get started with econometrics and the software Stata. The webinars offer an overview of the available Stata commands for data management, data analysis and econometric modelling, and are being introduced in a hands-on approach via Zoom.
A Tour of Stata
Date and time:
- Tuesday 15th March 2022 13:00 – 14:00 (UK time)
In this free webinar we will introduce you to Stata, a powerful statistical software for data science and econometrics.
The webinar will get you started with Stata and in particular will show how to:
- Interact with Stata via the Graphical User Interface
- Load data and perform simple data management operations
- Write Stata commands in the Command Window
- Create and execute .do files to save and reproduce your work.
Throughout the session you will be able to interact with the webinar leader to ask questions and clarify doubts.
Data Analysis and Visualisation using Stata
Date and time:
- Tuesday 12th April 2022 13:00 – 14:00 (UK time)
In this free webinar we will show you how to use Stata to analyse economic and financial data.
The webinar will gently introduce you to the software with a series of practical exercises.
The webinar covers the following topics:
- Introduction to Stata
- Data management operations
- Creating and customising graphs to visualise data
- Creating and interpreting descriptive statistics to understand the features of data.
Throughout the session you will be able to interact with the webinar leader to ask questions and clarify doubts.
Linear Regression Analysis using Stata
Date and time:
- Tuesday 24th May 2022 13:00 – 14:00 (UK time)
In this webinar we will show you how to use Stata to build and estimate linear regressions to model relationships between economic/financial variables.
The webinar requires some preliminary knowledge of the software, which participants can acquire attending Data Analysis and Visualisation using Stata.
The webinar covers the following topics:
- Estimating linear regression models
- How to conduct diagnostic tests and graphical analysis of regression to check the robustness of your model
- How to use statistical tests to make inference.
Throughout the session you will be able to interact with the webinar leader to ask questions and clarify doubt
Financial Econometrics using Stata
Date and time:
- Tuesday 5th July 2022 13:00 – 14:00 (UK time)
In this webinar we will show you how to use Stata to analyse the features of financial time series and to estimate ARMA and volatility models.
The webinar requires some preliminary knowledge of the software, which participants can acquire attending the Webinars A Tour of Stata and Data Analysis and Visualisation using Stata.
The webinar covers the following topics:
- Analysing the features of financial time series data: autocorrelation and volatility clustering, stationarity
- Estimating univariate time series models (AR, MA, ARMA)
- Forecasting with ARMA models
- Fitting univariate GARCH models.
Throughout the session you will be able to interact with the webinar leader to ask questions and clarify doubts.