This course focuses on skills students will need for their writing projects in the second year at ISET. Students read academic journal articles, present, discuss, and prepare a literature review on a series of articles. The class also prepares students for both the oral and written proficiency exams, and includes writing and speaking practice. Weekly recitation sessions focus on improving oral proficiency.

This course continues the focus on reading and writing. Students write an academic critique, and compare/contrast various points of view. The class continues work on logical presentation and connection of ideas, and sentence structure. We also begin to prepare for the oral proficiency exam, with speaking practice, both individually and in small groups. Weekly recitation sessions focus on sentence structure.

The main goal of this course is to supple the building blocs of microeconomic analyzys: Monopoly, Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly and Game Theory and Externalities, coupled with numerious examples of their applications. These topis higlithes significant development in microeconomics theoty in the last ten years at the level that is accesible for first year graduate studnets.

The aim of the course is not only to deliver mathematical concepts, which are necessary for most of modern economical problems, but also the ability to apply them. We want to avoid so called “cookbook approach” (the term from Simon & Blum), that is just a set of problems and algorithms for their solutions. Real ability to handle mathematical problems of economics comes only with deep understanding of mathematical ideas and concepts of the course.

The main aim of this course is to provide students with rigorous training in econometric theory and applications. Statistics and Econometrics III focuses on the fundamental building block of econometrics – the single linear regression model. Students successfully completing this course should be able to apply basic econometric tools in their own empirical work and to understand and critically evaluate research results reported by academic literature

This course aims at providing students with understanding of important macroeconomics concepts and knowledge and ability to use computational techniques and procedures necessary for graduate macroeconomics.