Economics
Overview
The BSc in Economics is a program focused on economics with a solid quantitative foundation and a rich interdisciplinary nature. The program prepares students to understand economic and social phenomena using mathematical models and statistical techniques.
Our students learn to predict the future evolution of employment, growth, inflation, globalization, development and inequality, and to understand the interaction between crime, health conditions, climate, and economic and social outcomes. The approach to these topics is highly quantitative with a combination of statistics, mathematics, machine learning, econometrics, microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, and the applications of these techniques in the field.
This BSc is ideal for students with an international vocation and an ambitious intellectual disposition: its quantitative training offers a method easily transferable to many different work environments and allows graduates to solve decision-making problems with a broader vision. The program prepares students for a higher level of specialization with an MSc or a career in managerial consulting, economic consulting, finance, governmental and non-governmental institutions, or research.
Starting from the second semester of the second year, it allows students to tailor their curriculum according to their professional interests, choosing one of two tracks:
- Economic Sciences, which combines mathematical models, data analysis and cognitive sciences to understand economic choices and economic and social phenomena. This is the best fit for students drawn to policy, consulting or a graduate program in economics or other areas of the social sciences.
- Economic and Data Sciences, which explores the application of algorithmic techniques and machine learning to data analysis and the interpretation of economic phenomena. This is the best fit for students drawn to data science, AI or a graduate program in economics, statistics or other areas of quantitative methods.
The program is offered entirely in English.
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What is the likely effect of Artificial Intelligence on labor markets and inequality? Why are tech giants under the close scrutiny of antitrust agencies around the globe? How can we achieve the goal of making our society more sustainable in the long run and what are the pros and cons of current policies? What are the welfare effects of social media? What are the implications of ageing societies? What are the benefits of belonging to the EU or adopting the Euro? What are the benefits and costs of globalization? Why are some countries unable to escape the poverty trap?
This Bachelor of Science tackles these and many more questions. You will discover how theoretical models — simplified representations of complex phenomena — are designed to understand logical connections and cause-effect relationships among the variables affecting the economic and social environment.
The program’s approach blends the study of models describing ideal rational economic behavior with an analysis of real-world behavior, allowing you to understand social phenomena and predict their evolution.
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