Business economics workshop

Credit risk analysis

Business evaluation

Communication of key economic concepts to non-economists

Neogtiation and interview skills

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

Cours co-requis

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

Contacts

aestache@ulb.ac.be

Campus

Solbosch

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