The concepts and methods course is a review of basic economics. Its goal is to facilitate the mastering of the concepts and methods in more advanced courses, seminars and in the development of a personal study project. The course covers 4 topics: macroeconomics, microeconomics, quantitative methods and econometrics.
1/ Macroeconomics - Review of basic concepts and mechanisms :
2/ Microeconomics - Fundamental microeconomic models :
Consumers' choices, producers' choices, competitive equilibrium, monopoly and characterisation of resulting allocations
3/ Quantitative methods - Review of the analytical tools for economists
4/ Econometrics - Review of basic econometrics using Stata :
Each topic will be evaluated separately and is worth one quarter of the final grade.
For QM:
- 20% of the final grade: assignments
- 10% of the final grade: participation to the online or in-class sessions
- 70% of the final grade: written, in-class exam
For Macro:
- 20% of the final grade: project
-80% of the final grade: written, in-class exam
For Micro:
- 20% of the final grade: assignments
- 80% of the final grade: written, in-class exam
For Econometrics:
- 20% of the final grade: assignments
- 80% of the final grade: written, in-class exam
Videos of the recorded lectures and slides will be made available to the students.