Corso di studio in Economia

Il corso di microeconomia è propedeutico per tutti i canali di questo modulo.

Prerequisiti canale A
Anche se non formalmente propedeutici, il docente considera come acquisite le conoscenze dei corsi di macroeconomia, econometria e storia economica.

Pathway A: Modern Economic History (Canale A: Storia Economica Moderna)

This Lab provides students with the necessary knowledge for the management and analysis of databases, with particular reference to economic history topics.

Its main objective is to enable students to:

1) Identify the relevant sources and the set of information most suitable to address specific topics

1) Gather information by exploring a variety of sources.

2) Turn qualitative information into quantitative data

The statistical software used is mainly maicrosoft Excell and e-views

Pathway B: Public policy analysis (Canale B: Analisi della public policy)

After a new policy is enacted, we often want to estimate what effects the policy had. This Lab provides students with an introductory knowledge for estimating the effects of new policies using difference-in-differences (DID) models.

Pathway C: Labour market, health and well-being: economic analysis using panel data (Canale C)

Longitudinal data allow observing changes in individuals’ circumstances over time and are commonly used in labour and health economics to investigate empirical problems.
This lab aims at introducing students to the use of longitudinal household surveys to investigate empirical research questions related to individuals’ and families’ health, well-being and labor market experiences.

Pathway F: Microeconometric Methods and Applications 

This lab aims at investigating advanced topics in applied micro-econometrics that are of great relevance in modern economic and finance applications. In particular this lab deals  with panel data, instrumental variables and quasi-experiments.

Pathway A: Modern Economic History (Canale A: Storia Economica Moderna)

Focusing on a specific theme, course participants will learn how to import data, manage datasets, deal with missing data, manipulate data, create graphics, run regression models, and present their results.

Pathway B: Public policy analysis (Canale B: Analisi della public policy)

Course participants will learn how to manage datasets, estimate DID models and present their results.

To achieve these results, students will be provided with data sets and will use them to evaluate policies.

Pathway C: Labour market, health and well-being: economic analysis using panel data (Canale C)

Course participants will learn how to construct longitudinal datasets starting from cross sectional data and will use these datasets to investigate empirical questions using basic techniques from panel data econometrics.
Students will understand the main advantages of longitudinal data and the relevance of random and fixed effects methodologies, using various examples from longitudinal household surveys in various countries.

Pathway F: Microeconometric Methods and Applications 

The student will learn to master some advanced econometric techniques to be used in economic and finance applications.

Pathway A: Modern Economic History (Canale A: Storia Economica Moderna)

The Lab consists of 24 hours of activity, with a mix of frontal lectures, in-class interaction and discussion, and independent (supervised) work

Pathway B: Public policy analysis (Canale B: Analisi della public policy)

The Lab consists of 24 hours of computer lessons, with interactions between teachers and students. 

Pathway C: Labour market, health and well-being: economic analysis using panel data (Canale C)

The Lab consists of 24 hours of computer lessons, with interactions between teachers and students.

Pathway F: Microeconometric Mehods and Applications  (Canale F)

The Lab consists of 24 hours of activity, with a mix of standard lectures, in-class interactions, and computer lectures.

Pathway A: Modern Economic History (Canale A: Storia Economica Moderna)

For students attending the classes (attendence is registered) the assessment is based on class activities (50%) and an independent project (50%). 

Students not attending the classes are assessed on a one hour exam, made of two open questions (worth 50% of the final grade each) based on the knowledge of the readings and the lectures content.

Pathway B: Public policy analysis (Canale B: Analisi della public policy)

Practical test in the computer classroom

Altre informazioni pratiche verranno rese disponibili prima dell'inizio del corso

Pathway C: Labour market, health and well-being: economic analysis using panel data (Canale C)

For students attending the class: Class group presentation (35%) + Mini group research project (65%)

For students not attending there will be a 1 hour written exam in the exam session

Pathway F: Microeconometric Methods and Applications

The exam consists in a one hour written test.  Self-evaluation exam papers  are made available on the course Moodle page.

Pathway A: Modern Economic History (Canale A: Storia Economica Moderna)

• Introduction to quantitative economic history
• Sources and methodology
• Growth in the long run and its measurement
• Government borrowing up to WWI and panel data analysis
• Central banks operations and time series analysis

Pathway B: Public policy analysis (Canale B: Analisi della public policy)

• Data set managing: from Excel to Stata
• DID models: an intuitive explanation
• Estimating DID using Stata and presenting the results

Pathway C: Labour market, health and well-being: economic analysis using panel data (Canale C)

• Cross section and panel data
• Advantages of longitudinal data
• How to construct longitudinal datasets
• Random effects models
• Fixed effects models
• Tests and diagnostics

Pathway F: Microeoconometric Methods and Applicarions

- Regressions with panel data

- Regressions with instrumental variables

- Experiments and quasi experiments

Releant readings are indicated on the moodle page of the module.