In this course, you’ll study the collective economic behavior of governments, businesses and households through topics such as gross domestic product, national income, economic growth, unemployment and inflation, the business economic cycle, and fiscal and monetary policy.

Blend basic macroeconomic theory with time- and country-specific studies to understand specific market dynamics, such as how interest rates affect real estate prices, or how regulation impacts energy prices.

Dive into microeconomic theory and its real-world applications with an introduction to decision-making from the lens of the uncertainty principle and the expected utility theory.

You’ll then study the law of supply and demand and understand the basic forces behind competitive equilibrium. Throughout the course, you’ll analyze the behavior of consumers and companies, learning to solve optimization and surplus problems along the way.

Understand the traditional and contemporary theories of international trade, tariff and non-tariff trade barriers and efficient trade policy. In this course, you’ll also examine international finance theories and their influence on interest rates between interconnected economies. By the end, you’ll understand the factors behind global financial crises and appreciate the complex interplay between sovereign debt, monetary policy, international trade and economic growth.

Learn how to leverage microeconomic analysis tools to analyze government spending, taxation and regulation. Through this course, you’ll explore welfare economics, the role of government in resource allocation and public intervention policies within different historical, political and economic contexts. Additionally, you’ll analyze the key challenges facing market economies, such as the inadequate supply of public goods, information asymmetries and the presence of negative externalities.

This course takes a microeconomics approach to identify optimal government behavior, but its content will also help you understand why decision-makers choose particular macroeconomic policies.

This course explores fundamental principles of financial economics and their role in effective decision-making. Learn to evaluate risks, time, uncertainty and opportunity cost, and analyze the assumptions of rationality behind economic decision-making models. Furthermore, you’ll develop the skills required to evaluate investments, oversee financial and management accounting, and gain actionable insights from financial data and reports to make better business decisions.

Harness the power of quantitative methods for economic analysis using software programs such as R, Stata and Python. You’ll start with an in-depth introduction to probability theory and its relevance to statistical analysis and development economics. Afterward, shift your focus to econometric applications such as maximum likelihood as well as linear and nonlinear models. Through our hands-on approach, you’ll apply relevant techniques to real-world datasets and learn to communicate the results through visualization and simplification.

Explore the primary and secondary capital markets and become an expert on debt issuance and purchase. With this course, you’ll understand the economic function of various financial instruments. Differentiate between stock markets and bond markets, and examine the distinctions between capital markets, money markets and bank loans. What’s more, you will learn to navigate monetary and fiscal policy challenges stemming from micro-financial linkages, and how to assess financial vulnerabilities using various analytical tools.

Leverage microeconomic and game theory to understand how strategic competitors behave in different market conditions. To help you accomplish this, the course delves into topics such as product differentiation, strategic investment and new markets, among others.

Investigate how companies make advertising or R&D decisions and explore advanced concepts like the Nash equilibrium, dominance, backward induction, credibility and asymmetric information. Further, you’ll study the practical applications of game theory, including oligopoly models, bargaining, labor market signaling and more.

Understand the practical applications of time series econometrics from a macroeconomic context. In this course, you’ll study autoregressive moving average processes, nonstationary time series models, unit root tests, vector autoregression models and cointegration analysis.

Learn how to forecast macroeconomic activity using various econometric approaches—ranging from simple time series analyses to complex simultaneous equations—and gain the know-how to leverage your results for effective decision-making.

This course provides the advanced econometric tools you will generally need for the empirical analysis of microdata. You will acquire a thorough grasp of estimation techniques for both panel data and non-linear models.

You’ll model microeconometric data, applying different linear models as alternatives to the multiple linear regression model. By the end of this course, you’ll gain a range of advanced techniques through topics like the generalized method of moments, systems of regression equations, likelihood ratio tests, and analysis of limited dependent variables, among others.

In this course, you will study the different programming languages used in economic analytics, including Python and R. Through hands-on approaches, you’ll learn essential techniques required for the management, manipulation, analysis and visualization of different types of data.

Study a wide range of topics, including variables, databases, basic mathematical and statistical modeling, iterations, DataFrames, arrays and more. During this course, you’ll pay special attention to advanced concepts related to different data structures and their sources, gaining practical skills for real-world economics.

Develop advanced project management skills in this highly practical course. You will study the operational and design needs of corporate projects, as well as the soft and managerial skills to lead effective teams. Learn how to work with stakeholders, manage risks and anticipate critical variables, and refine your expertise with common project management tools and resources.

Uncertain times call for strategic responses. In this course, you’ll acquire the knowledge and strategic leadership and management skills economists need to address social, political and economic challenges. Learn how to align mission with objectives, track growth, motivate teams and spearhead change initiatives.

Labor Economics explores the forces and processes that determine labor demand, labor supply, labor mobility and wages.

You will assess the role of government policy and regulation in determining labor force dynamics and gain an understanding of the factors that affect both individual decisions to enter the labor market and those taken within it.

You will explore the role of employment and unemployment in the economy, examining the factors that influence firms in making decisions about hiring or firing workers, selecting certain profiles, or determining career paths.

You will also study the role of institutions and government policies on job creation and quality.