Entrepreneurship and Organisations in Development
DescriptionGrading PolicyReading MaterialsDescription Learning objectives After completion of the course, students will be able: • to assess the potential, pitfalls, and risks of non-state organizations in development policy initiatives; • [...]
Economic Analysis of Households, Firms and Institutions
DescriptionGrading PolicyReading MaterialsDescription Learning objectives After completion of the course, students should be able to: • assess and understand the role of incentives and institutions in driving economic growth, reducing [...]
Economic Perspectives on Globalisation and Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
DescriptionGrading PolicyReading MaterialsDescription Learning objectives After completion of the course, students will be able to: • evaluate applied theories regarding international trade, trade policy, and investment and stylized facts in [...]
URBAN ECONOMICS
DescriptionCourse StructureGrading PolicyReading MaterialsDescription Urban economics is a branch of economics which stemmed from microeconomics in the 1940s and combined knowledge in this field and geography. This branch of economics [...]
HUMAN BEHAVIOR and EXPERIMENTS in DEVELOPMENT
DescriptionGrading PolicyReading MaterialsDescription Learning objectives 1. Understand the behavioral foundations of human decision-making and development 2. Differentiate types of experiments in the lab and field 3. Acquire first practical skills [...]
INTERNATIONAL TRADE and INVESTMENT POLICIES for SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
DescriptionGrading PolicyReading MaterialsDescription Learning objectives At the end of the course, you will be able to: • Critically evaluate applied international trade and investment theories and stylized facts in the [...]
RESEARCH PAPER
DescriptionGrading PolicyDescription Learning objectives Students will develop a Research Paper (RP) as the final requirement to complete the MA Programme. This course represents the individual part of the Research Paper [...]
ECONOMETRICS ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
DescriptionGrading PolicyReading MaterialsDescription Learning objectives By the end of the course students will be equipped with the necessary methodological skills required to understand published empirical papers in development studies/economics. Through [...]
GROWTH, INEQUALITY and POVERTY
DescriptionGrading PolicyReading MaterialsDescription This course will address matters related to long-term economic growth, as well as related issues in inequality (the distribution of income and wealth) and poverty that ultimately [...]
BEHAVIORAL FINANCE
The main learning aim of this MA-level course is for students to understand and critically engage with the behavioral dimensions of economic and financial decisions in the context of low […]
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes international trade as an engine for inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction, and as an important means to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals […]
MONEY BANKING
DescriptionCourse StructureGrading PolicyReading MaterialsDescription This course engages with topics related to financial markets and institutions central banking and monetary policy, economic sanction. Each topic is first motivated with relevant empirical [...]
