Mathematical Modelling for Economists

Department of Economics, Business School

College of Social Sciences

Details

Code 11382

Level of study First Year

Credit value 10

Semester 1

Pre-requisite modules None

Other pre-requisites Co-requisites - Advanced Quantitative Economic Methods A - 11102 and Advanced Quantitative Economic Methods B - 11103

Module description

This module emphases the posing of economic problems and the process of modelling them. Its object is to help students ‘think like economists’. This accomplished by studying examples from the literature in which key insights have allowed economic problems to be understood with new clarity. This module differs from others offered in its emphasis on formulation and the modelling process itself, rather than on solving already posed problems.

Teaching and learning methods

 

2 x lecture per week