As a master’s candidate you are expected to acquire in-depth and specialised disciplinary competence in modern academic economics. You are expected to have comprehensive knowledge of the methodology and scientific foundations of the discipline. This programme option prepares you for participating in analytical studies that aid decision-making in business and economic policy. You will be able to undertake work-related tasks with high-level skill requirements.
Knowledge
- in-depth understanding of the thories with in at least one of the fields of environment-, resource-, and or development economics
- solid foundations for further study through compulsory advanced courses in macro- and microeconomics, statistics/econometrics and mathematics, sufficient for fulfilling entry requirements for doctoral studies at most universities
Skills
- analyse existing economic models and evaluate their relevance for theoretical and practical problem solving
- use relevant models and methods, independently but under supervision,
- undertake applied work and research projects in economics
- concretise economic problems to be analysed and understand how the theoretical framework and actual empirical conditions are connected
Competences
- undertaking specialised and concrete problem solution on your own
- analysing relevant economic literature, concretise economic problems, and have insight into how you may draw the connection between theory and empirical conditions
- using economic models and communicating both the underlying assumptions of these models, as well as the results from theoretical and empirical model-based analysis