Economics and Econometrics Courses

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Explain how economic and policy analysis feeds into the budget cycle and resource allocation.
• Estimate the full capital, recurrent and contingent costs of a policy or programme.

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• Explain scarcity, opportunity cost, incentives and marginal thinking in everyday policy settings.
• Use supply, demand and elasticity to predict the effect of taxes, subsidies and price controls.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Establish governance arrangements, roles and sign-off procedures for economic and policy analysis.
• Conduct a regulatory impact assessment that compares options and estimates compliance costs.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Identify and assess financial risks across key financial processes.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of existing internal controls and identify control gaps.

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• Understand core international economic relations principles and how they fit together in practice.
• Apply practical techniques for world trade organization in day-to-day implementation.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Frame a policy problem as a clear, answerable economic question.
• Apply market-failure, incentive and welfare concepts to the design of policy options.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Understand core macroeconomics fundamentals: GDP, inflation, and monetary policy principles and how they fit together in practice.
• Apply practical techniques for role of the central bank in day-to-day implementation.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Frame a policy or investment question so that it can be answered with economic evidence.
• Select the right analytical tool, such as cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness or impact evaluation, for a given decision.

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• Explain the mandate, independence and governance arrangements that shape central bank decisions.
• Compare monetary policy frameworks and trace how policy signals travel through the economy.

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• Construct a theory of change and results framework for an economic policy or programme.
• Select economic outcome indicators and assess the quality of administrative and survey data.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Frame policy problems in economic terms, identifying market failures and the case for intervention.
• Apply supply, demand and elasticity analysis to taxes, subsidies, tariffs and price controls.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Frame a policy problem with clear objectives, counterfactuals and decision criteria.
• Plan an analytical work programme with proportionate methods, data and timelines.