Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313384 Applied Research in Economics and Business | OB | 0 | 1 |
None.
To provide the students with the basic analytical tools to understand the main features of applied research in economics and business.
Themes:
1- Demand and consumer behaviour
2- Technology, costs and production efficiency
3- Property Rights, markets and public policies.
4- Basic Game theory
5- Regulation of natural monopoly
6- Institutions and political economy in microeconomics
7- Financial Markets
8- Market Power and Empirical Industrial Organization
Themes:
1- Financial institution structures, lending infrastructures, legal and information environments: effects on credit availability for SMEs
2- Overcoming growth constraints through access to funding: internal versus external funding, transparent versus opaque SMEs
3- Some funding alternatives: Leasing, factoring, venture capital, business angels, and microfinance.
Productive Efficiency and Innovation
Themes:
1- Conventional productivity and efficiency concepts
2- Output and input measurement: Partial productivity measures and aggregation.
3- The frontier approach to efficiency analysis
4- Extensions on frontier evaluation
5- Innovation and technical change. The indices of Total Factor Productivity
Themes:
1. DSGE/RBC modern macroeconomics models.
1. The origin of modern macroeconomics
2. The Ramsey/Central Planner Model.
3. The Decentralized Economy Model.
4. Introducing the Government.
5. Monetary Economy.
2. Growth theory: neoclassical, endogenous growth model an comparative development.
1. The Neoclassical Growth Model.
2. Introducing Environmental Constraints.
3. The Endogenous Growth Model.
4. A source of ideas Immigration and Innnovation.
5. Introduction to Comaparative Development.
Combination of theory and problem-solving classes, essays and autonomous study and research.
The proposed teaching methodology may undergo some modifications according to the restrictions imposed by the health authorities on on-campus courses.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Theory and problem-solving classes | 93.75 | 3.75 | 1, 9, 3, 8, 14, 12, 11, 13, 15 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Essays and tutorials | 56.25 | 2.25 | 1, 9, 3, 8, 14, 12, 11, 13, 15 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Study and research activities | 222 | 8.88 | 1, 9, 3, 8, 14, 12, 11, 13, 15 |
Module Assessment (general rules)
Calendar of evaluation activities
The dates of the evaluation activities of the module (final exams, exercises in the classroom, assignments,...) will be announced well in advance during the semester.
"The dates of evaluation activities cannot be modified, unless there is an exceptional and duly justified reason why an evaluation activity cannot be carried out. In this case, the degree coordinator will contact both the teaching staff and the affected student, and a new date will be scheduled within the same academic period to make up for the missed evaluation activity." Section 1 of Article 115. Calendar of evaluation activities (Academic Regulations UAB). Students of the Faculty of Economics and Business, who in accordance with the previous paragraph need to change an evaluation activity (mainly final exam/s) date must process the request by filling out an Application for exams' reschedulehttps://eformularis.uab.cat/group/deganat_feie/application-for-exams-reschedule
Grade revision process
After all grading activities have ended, students will be informed of the date and way in which the module grades will be published. Students will be also be informed of the procedure, place, date and time of grade revision following University regulations.
Retake Process
"To be eligible to participate in the retake process of the module, it is required for students to have been previously evaluated for at least two thirds of the total evaluation activities of the module." Section 3 of Article 112 ter. The recovery (UAB Academic Regulations). Additionally, it is required that the student will have achieved an average grade of the module between 3.5 and 4.9
The date of the retake exam will be duly announced by the coordination of the program. Students whotake this exam and pass, will get a grade of 5 for the module. If the student does not pass the retake, the grade will remain unchanged, and hence, student will fail the module.
Irregularities in evaluation activities
In spite of other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with current academic regulations, "in the case that the student makes any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation in the grade of an evaluation activity, it will be graded with a 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that can be instructed. In case of various irregularities occur in the evaluation of the same module, the final grade of this module will be 0" Section 10 of Article 116. Results of the evaluation. (UAB Academic Regulations).
Not Assessed Grade
A student can obtain "Not Assessed" grade in the module only when he/she has not participated in any of the evaluation activities within it. Therefore, students who perform even one evaluation component cannot obtain "Not Assessed" grade in the module.
The proposed evaluation activities may undergo some changes according to the restrictions imposed by the health authorities on on-campus courses.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Class attendance | 5% | 0 | 0 | 1, 4, 9, 2, 3, 8, 10, 14, 12, 11, 13, 7, 5, 6, 15 |
Essays | 35% | 0 | 0 | 1, 4, 9, 2, 3, 8, 10, 14, 12, 11, 13, 7, 5, 6, 15 |
Exams | 60% | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 4, 9, 2, 3, 8, 10, 14, 12, 11, 13, 7, 5, 6, 15 |