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European Economic Policy
Social Economics
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European Economic Policy & Social Economics

Tracks in MSc Programme International Economic Studies (IES)

 The department of economics, AEII, proudly presents two new tracks with a macroeconomic focus within the master programme in International Economic Studies (IES) that teaches students to raise, understand, analyse and answer important social economic and economic policy questions from a theoretical and empirical point of view.

The MSc tracks in European Economic Policy (EEP) and in Social Economics (SE) focus on the most difficult challenges of economics in a rigorous and stimulating manner and replace the current three tracks in International Economic Studies (IES). This newly developed curriculum offers high-level technical training with a professional economics approach. The MSc tracks are designed to prepare the next generation of applied economists and policy makers for employment in business and government organizations. It is a programme with a macroeconomic focus, combining rigorous training in analytical and quantitative methods with an emphasis on economic policy and practice.

The structure of the programme is developed to provide students the opportunity to learn how real policy issues can be analyzed from an economic perspective. These tracks are likely to be of particular interest and value to students who intend to work as professional economists in government departments or other agencies, where they will be expected to provide economic analysis and advice on specific issues of policy, including new and unfamiliar issues about which standard textbooks say rather little. Analyzing newly emerging policy issues is not simply a translation of economic theory to practice. Social problems often require an economic perspective that is not available in the existing theory.

From this perspective characteristic elements in both tracks are a thorough knowledge of both theoretical and empirical research in the relevant fields, an understanding of relevant policy issues and a keen interest to approach policy dilemmas in an innovative way. Bachelor programmes are broad programmes to prepare students for specialized master programmes, while master students look for specialized and clearly labelled programmes – either thematic or in terms of the nature of economics. Hence, the proposed tracks are compulsory in all core courses, much more focussed and clearly labelled compared to the old IES curriculum. In addition, the proposed set-up makes the programme more manageable for all stakeholders.