Master of Applied Economics and Econometrics

This course provides professional education for those wishing to become economic or econometric professionals. It has a strong emphasis on developing analytical skills and offers a solid grounding and professional competence in aspects of commerce required for careers in the corporate sector, government and the professions.

The course will enable you to build a high level of expertise in one of the following specialisations:

• Applied econometrics
• Applied economics and econometrics
• Business economics.

The course allows you to focus your studies from the start, blending a conceptual theoretical framework with practical applications and covers basic discipline material through to more specialised discipline requirements.

Applied econometrics provides students with coursework and research components, and equips them with the required skills in econometric techniques and research experience, to undertake major applied econometric projects. Students will engage in a comprehensive curriculum across applied econometrics, time series analysis, financial econometrics, macro-econometrics and micro-econometrics, and they will develop skills to design and implement applied econometric projects for the government and business sectors. Equally this program may be used to prepare high performing students for a subsequent PhD program.

Applied economics and econometrics provides students with advanced knowledge in microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics (theory, methods and applied). Through a core research element in applied economics, students will learn to use economic or related theory and econometric models for assessing economic and public policies. Students will have required knowledge and research experience to seek jobs in the private, public or institutional sector as economists.

Business economics provides students with an advanced theoretical understanding of economics and its application to government and business decision-making. It is designed for early career economists and recent economics graduates who want to develop their expertise in applied economic tools and to undertake independent research. It is ideal if you are looking to extend your knowledge of economic analysis in the global economy, and focuses on areas of business strategy, competition policy, economic policy, project evaluation, pricing and risk and regulation.

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