Programme Overview
Master programme “Economics and Economic Policy” is a successor of master programmes “Applied Economics” and “Economics: Research Program”, but it is evolving in response to current demands of the labor market. Perspective students will choose an educational track according to their research interests and career expectations.
Students are expected to customize their curricula by choosing one of the three educational tracks:
- Applied Economics Track (general trajectory)
- Economics Research Track: groups "Microeconomics and Macroeconomics" and "Behavioral Economics" (research trajectory)
- Quantitative Methods in Economics and Finance Track (general trajectory)
Procedures of students’ assignment to academic tracks for 23/24
1. Applied Economics Track (Firms and Markets, Public Sector, and Economic Policy)
Scientific Supervisor: prof. Boris Kuznetsov
Language: either Russian or English (knowledge of Russian language is not required)
Special courses:
Public Spending
Institutional Economics
Microeconometrics of Qualitative Data
Industrial Organization and Competition Policy
Other courses available on this track
Webinar with Leonid Polishchuk, former scientific supervisor of the track
2. Economics Research Track
Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
Scientific Supervisor: Olga Kuznetsova
Language: English (knowledge of Russian language is not required)
Special courses:
Microeconomics: Applications
Macroeconomics: Additional Chapters
Industrial Organization: Empirical Research
Monetary Economics
DSGE Modelling
Other courses available on this track
Webinar with scientific supervisor of the track
Behavioral Economics
Scientific Supervisor: Alexis V. Belianin, Laboratory Head, International Laboratory for Experimental and Behavioural Economics
Language: English (knowledge of Russian language is not required)
Special Courses
Behavioral Economics
Behavioral Policy
Experimetrics
Other courses available on this track
Webinar with scientific supervisor of the track
Useful resources:
- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking fast and slow.
- Richard Thaler and Cass Sunshein, Nudge
- Dan Ariely Website www.predictablyirrational.com
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
Microeconometrics of Panel Data
Russian Macroeconomic Dynamics Estimation
Webinar with scientific supervisor of the track (in Russian)