Economics and Econometrics Courses

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Describe how legislation, regulation and agency mandates form the policy framework for a sector.
• Diagnose market failures and match them to suitable policy instruments.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Diagnose the market and government failures that justify, or argue against, public intervention.
• Estimate and interpret price and income elasticities and the incidence of taxes and subsidies.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Understand core price statistics and index numbers principles and how they fit together in practice.
• Apply practical techniques for price index construction in day-to-day implementation.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Execute key processes and workflows in prices statistics
• Apply best-practice frameworks and methodologies

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• Frame a policy problem and set out options and evaluation criteria.
• Apply microeconomic concepts such as elasticity, incidence and market failure to policy design.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Understand core program and budget analysis using microsoft excel principles and how they fit together in practice.
• Apply practical techniques for conditional calculations in day-to-day implementation.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Understand core public expenditure budgeting and management principles and how they fit together in practice.
• Apply practical techniques for public expenditure module 1 in day-to-day implementation.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Understand core public sector governance and budgetary reforms principles and how they fit together in practice.
• Apply practical techniques for public sector governance in day-to-day implementation.

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• Distinguish risk, uncertainty and ambiguity, and identify their sources in economic and policy analysis.
• Perform sensitivity analysis, switching value tests and scenario analysis on cost-benefit models.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Frame a policy problem and select suitable economic tools to analyse it.
• Conduct cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis, including discounting and sensitivity testing.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Compare monetary policy frameworks and explain how mandates and independence shape decisions.
• Trace the transmission of a policy rate change through markets to inflation and growth.

Key Skills You'll Learn

• Frame policy problems using problem trees, objective hierarchies and clear counterfactuals.
• Appraise policy options with cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis, including discounting and sensitivity tests.