Business economics workshop

Credit risk analysis

Business evaluation

Development of communication skills for adavenced finance and macro concetpts

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 ni 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 au profil d'enseignement

COMME LE COURS SE DONNE EN ANGLAIS, LA DESCRIPTION QUI SUIT SE FAIT EN ANGLAIS

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

Références, bibliographie et lectures recommandées

paper specific and students need to find them
i will provide overview PPTs and suggestions as we go along in the lectures

Support(s) de cours

• Syllabus
• Université virtuelle

Contacts

aestache@ulb.ac.be

Campus

Solbosch

Méthode(s) d'évaluation

• Travail de groupe

Travail de groupe

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

Construction de la note (en ce compris, la pondération des notes partielles)

roughly 20% per paper and 20% for the  ppts, 10% for participation + 10% for compliance with deadlines and attendance to theory and discussion groups (which is required for this class)

Langue(s) d'évaluation

• anglais