This year-long unit provides an analytical introduction to the core concepts and tools of modern economics. Starting from historical and cross-country comparisons, students learn how economic analysis can be used to understand modern economies. The unit examines behaviour in goods, labour and credit markets, explores how institutions and policy shape economic outcomes, and draws on empirical data, graphical and mathematical models, and historically informed narratives to analyse contemporary economic issues.
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.