Program Details

Applied Microeconomic Analysis

This course aims to introduce students to economic fundamentals like preferences, costs, demand and supply, perfect and imperfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and market failure. These fundamentals are critical to understanding how markets work, to design successful business strategies and policies that increase social welfare.

Instructor: Andreas Menzel, Ph.D.

Macroeconomic Policy Analysis

In this course, students learn to think and analyze real world phenomena, such as economic growth, business cycles and the role of economic policy through the lens of state-of-the-art macro models, such as general equilibrium models built from explicit micro foundations.

Instructor: Ctirad Slavík, Ph.D.

Quantitative Methods I and II

The first part of this sequence series will provide students with knowledge of the elements of statistical inference, namely multivariate statistics and multivariate data analysis methods. Topics in the second part include non-linear regression functions, instrumental variables regression, regression with panel data, and regression with a limited dependent variable. Upon completion, students will understand and be able to perform standard descriptive and inferential data analysis, investigate and test the relationship between variables as well as specify, use and interpret multivariate models. These techniques are widely used in economic research carried out in governmental institutions, international organizations, central banks, as well as in the financial and business environment. Both courses will also emphasize empirical analysis and focus on the use of data in practice along with the use of available statistical software (R, Stata).

Instructor of QM I: Prof. RNDr. Jan Hanousek, CSc., DSc.

Instructor of QM II: Pavla Vozárová, Ph.D.

Project Seminar

The purpose of the project seminar is for students to use their data-analytical abilities to solve problems in a real world setting. Students will divide themselves into small teams, each team working for a real world client coming from business, public or NGO sphere. Our past clients included Cogvio (health care information startup), Moody’s Analytics, Nielsen A.G (marketing data company), Liftago, ČSOB bank or Platform for social housing Brno. Read more about the previous projects in out blog.

Over the course of one semester, students will cement their abilities to problem solve, analyze data, communicate with a client, coordinate projects, and work in a team setting. They will be mentored by both internal faculty and mentors appointed by the client. Their final output will be presented both to clients as well as during a public presentation held at the end of semester, and evaluated by a jury.

Instructor: Doc. RNDr. Filip Matějka, Ph.D.

Communication for Impact I, II and III

In the writing part, the course aims at the development of the core writing skills required to submit an effective and accurate academic and professional text. In the presentation skills part, students learn how to create a memorable message and engage with the audience. Finally, in the negotiation part students practice scenarios in which they have to defend a proposal, persuade a business partner and come up with a comprehensive solution.

Instructor: Paul Whitaker, M.A.

Students need to take 7 electives classes to complete their studies. Each year a list of offered electives is slightly different, in accordance with students' interest and professors' availability. The portfolio of the elective courses taught in the last three years includes the following courses:

• Corporate Finance and Valuation
• Development and Behavioral Economics
• Forecasting and Stress Testing Risk
• Human Resources Economics
• Introduction to Time Series Analysis
• Machine Learning Techniques
• Monetary Theory and Policy
• Policy Evaluation
• Strategic Thinking: Theory and Practice
• Time Series Applications in Finance
• Topics in Applied Finance
• Topics in Macroeconomics

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