Political Economics

After completing the course the student is expected to be able to:

Knowledge:

• Account for the basic and more advanced theoretical models of different aspects of political-economic process as well as methods and results of empirical assessment of these models.
• Account for the tools of modeling as well as empirical methods and results within the topics listed under the course content above.

• Of the methods and results within the topics covered in the course

Skills:

• Apply methods and results from the list of topics above, to analyze variations and extensions of these and closely related topics within political economics.
• Discuss and assess the underlying assumptions and methods within these topics and their impact on the analytical results.
• The ability to apply these methods to analyze variations and extensions of these and closely related topics within political economics
• The ability to critically discuss assumptions and methods used within these topics
   

Competences:

• Initiate and participate in discussions about political economics within both a national and international practical and empirical context.
• Plan and execute independent theoretical and empirical analyses that address issues within the topics listed above, as well as other related topics in political economics
• The ability to discuss the topics of the course within both a national and international practical and empirical context at the level corresponding to that presented in class.