Economics

Economics plays a crucial role in analysing and addressing societal problems by understanding how individuals, businesses, and governments make choices in the face of limited resources, like time or money. While united in the methodological approach, the questions economics seeks to answer are diverse:

• What is the best way to reduce CO2 emissions?
• How do households decide how much to save for retirement?
• Why do some markets need regulation and others not?
• How should you design monetary policy to keep inflation low?
• Why are some countries rich and some poor?
• How to make healthcare more accessible and affordable?
• How do social norms affect behaviour and policies?
• Why do women earn less than men?

As an economist, you have an analytical mindset and you use data to study and assess economic policies: In short, you keep a cool head when it comes to making decisions for burning social problems.

To equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to impact societies, our MSc Economics combines rigorous thinking, empirical evidence, and practical applications in three core courses (microeconomics, macroeconomics, empirical methods) and a selection of over 25 elective courses from our programme and other master’s programmes. You will study state-of-the-art research articles and learn about the important modern tools economists use. Based on the empirical evidence that you analyse, you will be able to come up with policy recommendations and apply economic thinking to societal problems and policy dilemmas. Upon finishing your degree, you can write clear policy reports with well-informed analyses and solutions, deeply rooted in the relevant economics literature and backed by data.