This year-long unit provides an analytical introduction to the core concepts and tools of modern economics. The unit covers various topics including the role economic analysis can play in understanding different dimensions of modern economies, behaviour of economic actors in the goods, labour and credit market and analyses how institutions and policy shape economic outcomes. The unit draws on empirical data, graphical and mathematical models as well as historically and methodologically informed narrative.
This unit provides students with the opportunity to answer key economic questions, based on applied research, building upon the economic theory and econometrics cornerstones of years 1 and 2. Students study topics in two themes, the Economics of Education (previously the Economics of Health and Social Care), and the Economics of Innovation.
This unit aims to provide comprehensive training in using economic analyses to explore different aspects of the economics of health and health care. The course will cover and analyse the recent empirical evidence on certain topics and include a hands-on component, allowing students to use real-world data on a health economics topic for empirical analyses.
The aim of this unit is to teach some basic statistic and econometric methods in the context of real-world empirical problems. The first part of the course concentrates on basic statistical techniques, which are required for the study of econometrics in the second part of the course.