Certificate of Advanced Quantitative Methods in Economics

Syllabus

Students enrolled in the program must validate the following courses:

First year of master's degree

Microeconometrics (6 ECTS)
Micreconometrics: applications with STATA (3 ECTS)
Introduction to Matlab (3 ECTS)
Macroeconometrics (6 ECTS)
Data management, Algorithmic and programming (3 ECTS)

These courses replace those that are offered in the student's Master program in the corresponding disciplines.

Second year of master's degree

Machine Learning (6 ECTS)

These courses replace those that are offered in the student's Master program in the corresponding disciplines.

Students engaged in the Certificate must also complete a 2-month (or more) research internship during one of the 2 years of their Master program (9 ECTS). This internship can take place in one of the PSL research departments or in a partner university or in the research department of an international organisation or a governmental institution.

Teaching modalities

All classes are taught in English in lecture format in small classes. A particular emphasis is put on applying the empirical tools that are taught to the analysis and problem solving of highly-relevant economic policy issues.