Programme Overview
Students are expected to customize their curricula by choosing one of the four educational tracks:
- Applied Economics Track (general trajectory)
- Research in Economics Track (research trajectory)
- Quantitative Methods in Economics and Finance Track (general trajectory)
- Economic and Financial Behavior (research trajectory)
Procedures of students’ assignment to academic tracks for 24/25
1. Applied Economics Track (Firms and Markets, Public Sector, and Economic Policy)
Scientific Supervisor: assisstant professor Timur Natkhov
Language: either Russian or English (knowledge of Russian language is not required)
Special courses:
Public Spending
Fiscal Policy Models
Models With Qualitative Dependent Variables
Industrial Organization and Competition Policy
2. Research in Economics Track
Scientific Supervisor: Olga Kuznetsova, assistant professor with the Department of Theoretical Economics.
Language: English (knowledge of Russian language is not required).
For students enrolled in 2023 the track is divided into two groups: "Micro-and Macroeconomics" (supervisor: Olga Kuznetsova) and "Behavioral Economics" (supervisor - Alexis Belianin).
Special courses:
Microeconomics: Applications
Macroeconomics: Additional Chapters
Industrial Organization: Empirical Research
Monetary Economics (Adnavced Level)
DSGE Modelling
Behavioral Economics
Experimetrics
Experimental Economics
Other courses available on this track
Webinar with scientific supervisor of the track
"Behavioral Economics" group
Supervisor - Alexis Belianin, Head of the International Laboratory for Experimental and Behavioural Economics.
Language: English (knowledge of Russian language is not required).
The group educational process is supported by the International Laboratory for Experimental and Behavioural Economics.
Special courses:
Behavioral Economics
Experimetrics
Experimental Economics
Behavioral Policy
3. Quantitative Methods in Economics and Finance
Scientific Supervisor: Elena V. Kossova
Language: Russian (knowledge of Russian language is required)
Special Courses:
Time Series Analysis
Panel Data Analysis
Russian Macroeconomic Dynamics Estimation
Machine Learning for Economics Research
Spatial Econometrics
Webinar with scientific supervisor of the track (in Russian)
4. Economic and Financial Behavior
Scientific Supervisor: Mikhail Mamuta
Language: Russian and English
Special courses:
Experimental Economics
Behavioural Economics
Experimetrics
Behavioral Macroeconomics