Fundamental Courses

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Fundamental Courses

The four fundamental courses of the master program are compulsory and are always offered in the winter term. The topics are as follows.

Fundamentals of Microeconomics

Based on a solid understanding of the theory of the firm and the household, this course covers issues like regulation, game theory, welfare effects of government-induced price distortions, and the theory of market failures. Furthermore, the course provides students with modern tools while enabling them to understand and work with scholarly articles in areas such as public finance and industrial organization.

Fundamentals of Macroeconomics

This course introduces basic concepts and key tools that are central to the understanding of macroeconomic issues, ranging from short-term economic fluctuations to long-term growth. Students will learn how models are used to understand key empirical facts in macroeconomic data, how to use mathematical tools for the analysis of model economies, how to develop and use the most common models for understanding the relationship between aggregate output, inflation and interest rates, and the key drivers of macroeconomic growth and cycles, and how to develop policy recommendations and conduct practical policy analysis. At the end of the course, students should be able to apply the modern macroeconomist's toolkit to macroeconomic questions of current importance. While the course makes frequent use of mathematics, mathematical expertise is not a goal in itself: Mathematics provides a systematic approach for making sense of complicated economic relationships. The course includes problem sets with practice questions.

Fundamentals of Econometrics

The course in Econometrics introduces the methods behind the empirical analysis of micro- and macro-data as they are encountered in cross-sectional and time series studies, respectively. Application of these methods will be demonstrated with real data examples solved with standard computer software. Students learn how to carry out empirical studies of the nature of economic relationships. The course presumes that students are familiar with linear regression models and material from elementary econometrics or empirical economics.

Capital Markets and Asset Pricing

The course on Capital Markets and Asset Pricing is designed to provide a solid understanding of theoretical concepts related to capital markets and to equip students with practical application skills. The course will discuss a series of institutional and methodological issues required to understand the more advanced problems which are addressed in subsequent semesters. These issues include: utility theory, modern portfolio theory, asset pricing models, and option pricing theory.

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