As a master’s candidate you are expected to acquire in-depth and specialised disciplinary competence. You are expected to have comprehensive knowledge of the discipline’s methodology and scientific foundations. This study option prepares you for participation in research projects and for doctoral studies. You will be able to analyse problems requiring high skill levels.
Knowledge
- advanced knowledge within the core areas of microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics that are required for doing research in economics.
- insigt in to advanced and up-to date methods used by researchers in economics, including familiarity with the literature on these issues
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