Professor Gerard Padró i Miquel and Dr Ethan Ilzetzki

This course is compulsory on the Executive MPA. This course is not available as an outside option.

There are no pre-requisites for this course.

The course is an introductory graduate course providing an economics background suitable for high-level public policy-making. The emphasis is on acquiring sound models and methods suitable for appraising policy-making issues and applicable in a wide variety of contexts. The course will cover both key microeconomic policy issues, such as externalities, public goods and principal-agent problems and macroeconomic issues such as unemployment, fiscal and monetary policies, international trade and finance and the determinants of long-run growth.

A one-week modular teaching block.

One mock examination will be provided.

A full reading list will be distributed at the beginning of the course.

Project (50%, 2000 words) and online assessment (50%).

Please note that online examinations take place on the third Friday after module teaching concludes. The project will consist of a 2,000 word data analysis exercise. Data analysis exercises are due on the sixth Friday after module teaching concludes. Further details will be provided at the Executive MPA programme induction.