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ECON-S531

Business economics workshop

academic year
2024-2025

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 consist in group assignments, with the possibility of group sessions with the instructor.

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

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

Other information

Contacts

mattia.nardotto@ulb.be

Campus

Solbosch

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

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