Compulsory Courses 2015-2016

These courses are compulsory for first-year research students. For each compulsory course there are additional exercise classes by teaching assistants.

The compulsory courses are in 3 blocks, with the background course on Mathematics starting on 25 August 2015, and the courses on Statistics and Econometrics and on Microeconomics starting on 7 September 2015 [see September schedule] and then twice a week until the middle of February 2016 (going into the second term).

The Macroeconomics module will start in the second block (in November 2015) and will continue until the middle of April 2016.

Each block is followed by exams, which will take place in the weeks of 19 October 2015 (block I), 14 December 2015 (block II) and 15 February 2016 (block III), while the Macro block III exams will take place in the first week of April 2016.

• Summer exercises

• August-October programme

• Background course in Mathematics (Antonio Villanacci), starts 25 August 2015. Course material.

• Course in Probability, Statistics and Econometrics (Filip Lazaric and Andrea Ichino), starts 31 August 2015.