Check out finance courses on NPTEL or course pages from colleges that offer undergrad degree in finance / econ. Not a focus area for now, atleast till the end of 2025.

• Generic Topics
  • Slightly Technical Topics
  • Finance-Focused Topics
  • What Do These Even Mean?
• IITB Dept of Economics
  • UG Curriculum
  • PG Curriculum
    • EC 802 – Advanced Economic Theory
    • EC 821 Applied Econometrics
    • EC 631 Financial Economics
    • EC 638 Financial Econometrics

Generic Topics

Slightly Technical Topics

1. Capital markets
2. Computational finance
3. Monte Carlo simulations
4. Numerical methods
5. Time series / econometrics
6. Statistics for finance

Finance-Focused Topics

1. Financial theory
2. Asset / derivative pricing
3. Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
4. Puts / Calls
5. Options
6. Risk management
7. Financial models

What Do These Even Mean?

1. Econometrics
2. Regressions
3. Time series
4. Panel data analysis
5. Volatility modelling
6. Co-integration

IITB Dept of Economics

UG Curriculum

From the course page, exciting subjects include:

1. EC 221 Intermediate Micro economics I
2. EC 223 Intermediate Macro economics I
3. EC 210 Intermediate Micro economics II
4. EC 212 Intermediate Macro economics II
5. EC 402 Game Theory

   Already in my CS topics list, which I should be covering first, as CS principles will be more useful to me in the near future.

6. EC 306 Econometrics I
7. EC 405 Econometrics II

Some really cool honours courses:

• EC 310 Corporate Investment
• EC 315 Public Finance
• EC 440 Industrial Economics
• EC 452 Economic Reforms in India
• EC 610 Cost Benefit Analysis
• EC 611 Financial Economics
• EC 700 Applied Economics
• EC 707 Empirical Analysis of Corporate Governance

PG Curriculum

From the course page, with much more depth than the bachelor level courses.

EC 802 – Advanced Economic Theory

• Consumer theory
• Producer theory
• Choice under uncertainty
• General equilibrium models
  • Walrasian and Marshallian stability analysis: existence, uniqueness, stability
• Game theory topics
  • Bayesian games
  • Signaling
  • Mechanism design
  • Decision theory
  • Cooperative game theory
• Applications in corporate investment
  • Distributed lag models, adaptive expectations, investment accelerators
• Applications of difference equations
  • Competitive market models with perishable products
  • Market models with inventory
• Growth models
  • Neoclassical growth model without money (wealth demand model)
  • Solow growth model
  • Solow with automation
  • Endogenization of investment in physical capital
  • Automation and wage inequality
  • Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model (with automation)
  • Overlapping Generations (OLG) model (with automation)
• Open economy macroeconomics

EC 821 Applied Econometrics

• Linear regression
  • Multiple regression, violations of classical assumptions
  • GLS, Seemingly Unrelated Regressions
  • Simultaneous equations models
• Limited dependent & qualitative variables
  • Linear probability model
  • Probit, logit, multinomial logit
  • Conditional logit, nested logit, nested multinomial logit
  • Ordered logit / probit
  • Poisson regression, negative binomial, Tobit, hurdle model
• Time series
  • Stationarity, ARIMA, VAR
  • Cointegration, ARCH, GARCH
• Panel data
  • Fixed effects (LSDV), random effects
  • Fixed vs random effects, dynamic panel models
  • Errors in variables, unit root tests
• Matching methods
  • Counterfactuals, propensity score matching
  • Average treatment effect, quantile treatment effect
  • Regression + matching
  • Ordered & continuous treatment
• Instrumental variables regression
  • IV and causality, 2SLS
  • IV with heterogeneous outcomes
• Difference-in-differences (DiD)
  • Individual fixed effects
  • Regression-based DiD

EC 631 Financial Economics

• Financial markets and the economy
  • Real vs financial assets
  • Users of the financial system
  • Role of financial intermediation
• Choices under risk
  • Utility theory under uncertainty
  • Axioms of choice, risk aversion
• Financial instruments
  • Types, characteristics, financial innovation
• Bond pricing & term structure theories
  • Expectations Hypothesis
  • Liquidity Preference
  • Market Segmentation Theory
  • Preferred Habitat Theory
• Derivatives basics
  • Futures and options definitions
  • Rights & obligations of parties
  • Taxonomy of options
• Portfolio theory
  • Return–risk tradeoff
  • Efficient diversification
  • Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
  • Risk premium determinants, empirical CAPM tests
• Financial intermediation
  • Role of banks
  • Types of intermediaries

EC 638 Financial Econometrics

• Properties of financial returns
• Univariate time series models
  • Applications in finance
• Multivariate time series models
  • Applications in finance
• Cointegration & error correction models
• Volatility modelling
  • ARCH, GARCH
  • Historical, realized, implied volatility
• Markov & regime switching models
  • Applications in finance
• Multivariate volatility & correlation models
  • Applications in finance