Economics and Econometrics Courses

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Choose an identification strategy that fits a given policy question and dataset.
• Estimate treatment effects using difference-in-differences, instrumental variables and regression discontinuity designs.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Frame a policy problem and identify where markets fail to deliver good outcomes.
• Estimate and interpret price, income and cross elasticities for policy use.

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• Describe the objectives, independence and accountability of a modern central bank.
• Compare monetary policy frameworks such as inflation targeting and monetary aggregate targeting.

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• Apply regression analysis to macroeconomic and financial data.
• Build and interpret time-series models for forecasting.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Understand core applied econometrics for macroeconomics and finance principles and how they fit together in practice.
• Apply practical techniques for Time-Series econometrics in day-to-day implementation.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Frame a policy problem and identify the economic rationale for intervention.
• Use supply and demand, elasticity and market failure analysis to predict policy effects.

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• Compare monetary policy frameworks and explain the transmission mechanism in each.
• Forecast banking system liquidity and select suitable operations to manage it.

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• Locate, import and combine economic data from surveys, administrative records and international databases.
• Clean and document data sets using reproducible scripts in Stata or R.

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• Assemble, validate and document macroeconomic and financial datasets for policy analysis.
• Apply seasonal adjustment and trend extraction to key economic series.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Organise economic analysis as reproducible, version-controlled projects in Python or R.
• Acquire data programmatically from APIs, open data portals and web sources.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Understand core econometrics techniques principles and how they fit together in practice.
• Apply practical techniques for time series econometrics in day-to-day implementation.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Apply microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts to practical policy and business decisions.
• Identify market failures and judge when intervention is justified.