MA Economics

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MA (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £16,600
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £35,300

The fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

Fees for entry are subject to yearly review. The University reserves the right to increase your tuition fee by up to 7% each year for courses lasting more than one year, including to reflect rising costs associated with delivering our educational and wider student experience. Postgraduate fees information .

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The following is illustrative of the material that may be covered in the classes:

• Introduction to the dissertation process
• Formulating an appropriate research project
• Exploratory Data Analysis and Database
• Software for Applied Economics
• Writing Economics
• Graphs and tables
• Presentation of econometric results
• How to do Presentations

The course will discuss how to formulate a research project and assist the students in the production of an applied economics dissertation It will also give some instruction into how the research project is conducted, how it is written up, and how to give a presentation of the results.

By the end of the course students who have studied successfully will have demonstrated that they have:

• the ability to formulate an appropriate research project
• experience of using information technology as a research resource
• experience of writing a Research Project using appropriate information    technology
• appropriate knowledge of software packages: e.g. Excel, Stata, Eviews, R, Gretl
• used basic statistical and graphical techniques to explore and analyse the appropriate data
• had experience of accessing such data from public sources
• clearly demonstrated appropriate use of library and other appropriate resources.

Formal Lectures using PowerPoint or OHP depending on availability.

Tutorials - students will work in groups, including meetings between tutorials, and make presentations to the rest of the group.

Project proposal - 1,500  -2,000 words (10%)
Exploratory Data Analysis - 1,800 - 2,500 words plus figures and diagrams (10%)
Database (10%)
Presentation - 15 minutes (10%)
Final Dissertation - 6,700 words (+/- 700 words) (60%)

• Mukherjee, Chandan , White, Howard and Wuyts, Marc (1998) Econometrics and Data Analysis for Developing Countries, Routledge
• Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. (2008), Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, Fourth Edition, Thomson South-Western publishing
• Lecture Material from both ECON60611 Introduction To Econometrics and ECON60622 Further Econometrics

Information
Level: PG (MA Economics only)

Tutor: Nick Weaver

Timetable
Summer