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Business economics workshop
Course teacher(s)
Mattia Nardotto (Coordinator)ECTS credits
5
Language(s) of instruction
english
Course content
Credit risk analysis
Business evaluation
Communication of key economic concepts to non-economists
Neogtiation and interview skills
Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)
To give you a chance to use all the tools you learned in macro, micro, finance, regulation, stats and econometrics to analsyse specific companies or countries.
The course also aims at teaching you key written and oral communications skills you will need in the business and policy world
Prerequisites and Corequisites
Cours co-requis
Teaching methods and learning activities
This class will be web-based
It will start with 3 theory lectures to force you to get through what you have learned on finance to assess the value of a firm/stock and what you have learned on macro to be able to conduct a country risk analysis (and possibly to assess the value of country bond)
There is also a lecture on how to write a report on economics issues
Additional lectures may be added to correct for any skill gap i identify as part of our interactions
Since the class size is quite large, I will teach the theory classes and the debriefing to the full class attending and I will then divide the class into groups to ease interactions. How this is done will depend on how large the class is. I will also try to make you do the work before eastern since in earlier years, students asked for this to free time to work on their MA thesis.
Contribution to the teaching profile
This class builds on everything you have learned in economics during your MA education and is intended to prepare you to use those skills in very applied economics notes similar to those many of you will have to work on as part of your first job as an economist in finance, the big 4, consulting firms or international organizations.
These are the main competencies aimed at :
- Analytical skills to take on conceptual or real life situations
- Problem solving perspective in a wide range of topics with realistic economic and financial tools
- Ability to communicate diagnostics and recommendations on typical policy issues
References, bibliography, and recommended reading
Readings matching papers to write and these need to be identified by students
I will also provide overview PPTs and suggestions as we go along in the lectures
Course notes
- Syllabus
- Université virtuelle
Other information
Evaluation
Method(s) of evaluation
- Other
Other
grades based on 2 short (8 pages max) papers you need to write in teams of 3) and on matching PPT
interactions will also be graded
presentation of ppt will be optional
Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)
grades based on 2 short (8 pages max) papers you need to write in teams of 3) and on matching PPT
interactions will also be graded
presentation of ppt will be optional
Language(s) of evaluation
- english