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These courses are open to visiting students and to students participating in the Erasmus exchanges directly negotiated by
the Department of Economics or by the Departments of Business Studies, or Political Science, or Sociology. Students
participating in other Erasmus programmes will only exceptionally be permitted to take these courses, and then only by
agreement with the Head of the Department of Economics.
EC3090 Econometrics
Special requirements: Knowledge of quantitative methods
Duration: Academic year
Contact hours p/w: 2 lectures; weekly classes
Assessment: 1 project; 1 term test; 1 x 3 hour exam
Weighting: 10 ECTS
Description: This is a course for economists - for those who should understand and may want to use
modern econometric techniques. Therefore, it is not designed to make excessive mathematical demands of the
student. An essential part of the course is a project done during Christmas and Easter vacations. This project
involves the collection of data and the use of regression packages on the computer.
EC4010 Economic Theory
Duration: Academic year
Contact hours p/w: 2 lectures; fortnightly classes
Assessment: 1 project; 1 essay; 1 x 3 hour exam
Weighting: 15 ECTS
Description: This course covers recent research in core areas of microeconomic and macroeconomic
theory. The first part of the course introduces modern analytic tools. The remainder of the course deals with recent
advances in the areas of microeconomic theory and macroeconomic theory. The emphasis will be on simple
exposition of the basic models with applications to policy areas.