Courses 2012-13
The courses in the Economics for Public Policy Program are organized into three terms. In September, students will be provided with review courses on Mathematics and Statistics. These courses are not mandatory but very highly recommended to assure a smooth start in the program.
Mathematics and Statistics Review Course Syllabus
Fall Term (Ciutadella Campus)The first term provides students with core concepts in Economics (individual decision making, strategic interactions among agents, markets, the role of government, role of information in economic decisions, basic quantitative techniques). The main purpose of these courses is to create a common language among students who possibly come from different backgrounds. In this term, the students will also take a course on Introduction to Economics of Public Policy that will introduce them to the basic issues in identifying causal effects of public policy on economic behavior. |
Course Title
| ECTS | Professor(s) |
| Quantitative Methods ** | 6
| Javier Gómez Biscarri |
Part I (20 hour courses) Economic Agents and Markets ** | 3 | Pau Olivella |
| Strategic Thinking ** | 3
| Juan-José Ganuza |
Part II (20 hour courses) Macroeconomics | 3
| Nezih Guner |
| Information Economics ** | 3
| Guillaume Haeringer
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| Introduction to Economics of Public Policy | 3
| Caterina Calsamiglia |
** Course offered jointly with Competition and Market Regulation / Health Economics and Policy master programs
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Winter Term (Bellaterra Campus)The second semester courses will focus on key public policy issues and endow students with more advanced empirical tools specific to public policy evaluation. The students will also be exposed to cost-benefit aspects of public policy evaluation in the Economics of Policy Evaluation course. Students will emerge from the second term with a command of the fundamental tools of public policy evaluation and ready to use these tools in practice. |
Course Title
| ECTS | Professor(s) |
Quantitative Methods for Policy Evaluation *** | 6
| Gabrielle Fack Stephan Litschig Joan Llull (TBC)
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Part I (20 hour courses) Labor Economics | 3 | Ana Rute Cardoso |
| Political Economy | 3
| Humberto Llavador |
Public Economics
| 3
| Joan de Martí |
Part II (20 hour courses) Economics of Policy Evaluation | 3 | Pere Riera |
*** 4.5 ECTS (30 hours) shared with Health Economics and Policy; 1.5 ECTS (10 hours) independent (Economics of Public Policy students only)
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Spring Term (Ciutadella and Bellaterra Campuses)The third term will provide the students with a broader view on public policy, focusing on more specific tools, such as Survey Methods, and on different areas of public policy, such as economic demography, health, development, and migration. Students will be able to take courses offered by the Economics of Public Policy master program as well as several other courses on public policy offered by other master programs within Barcelona GSE. Students will be guided to select courses to achieve a more in-depth knowledge of particular areas. Students will be exposed to the views of experts from fields other than Economics to have an appreciation of the multidisciplinary nature of public policy design and evaluation. In this term particular attention will also be given to institutional structures and how they shape the design, implementation and outcomes of public policies. A master project, which will be supervised in weekly meetings, will allow students to put their knowledge into practice and improve their writing and expositional skills.
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Course Title
| ECTS | Professor(s) |
Survey Methods
| 3 | Manuel Arellano Olympia Bover |
| Public Policy in the European Union (Social Policies, Science and Education Policies) | 3 | Ramon Marimon TBA |
| Development and Public Policy | 3 | Giacomo de Giorgi
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Economics and Politics of Conflict
| 3 | Laia Balcells Joan M. Esteban |
Demography: Economic and Sociological Perspectives
| 3 | Gosta Esping-Anderson Nezih Guner |
Master Project
| 6
| Caterina Calsamiglia Gabrielle Fack Nezih Guner |
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