Economics (ECON501_INTS)

The aim of the course is to provide students with a the main concepts of economic analysis and economic methodology (introduction to modelisation and empirical approach). The range of topics is broad since the course tackle growth economics (introduction to Solow Model), Labour economics (introduction to matching theory and randomized experiment), and environmental economics (main intuitions)

No prerequisite, yet the rythm is quite fast and some basic mathematics is helpful (functions, derivative, simple optimization)

What is economics?

How to model growth?

Why is there unemployment in market economies?

How to deal with unemployment?

How to cope with climate changing?