First-Term Courses 2010-2011

Compulsory Courses (30 August - 17 December 2010)

Compulsory for first-year researchers. For the compulsory courses, there will be additional exercise classes by Teaching Assistants.

These are in 3 blocks, with the background course on Mathematics starting on 30 August, and the courses on Statistics and Econometrics and on Microeconomics starting on 13 September [see September schedule] and then twice a week until the middle of February 2011 (going into the second term). The macroeconomics module will start in the second block (in November).

Each block is followed by exams, which will take place in the weeks of 25 October (block I), 13 December (block II) and 21 February (block III).

• Summer excercises

• Background Course in Probability and Statistics + Matlab (Michal Markun)

• Background course in Mathematics (Antonio Villanacci);
  course notes (revised 8-10-2010); exam and solutions (Oct. 2010)

Advanced courses (for 2^nd year students only)

- David Levine and Ramon Marimon “Learning in Economics”, from October (outline)