Economics with Data

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• use data for basic statistical inference on the quantitative or qualitative workings of economic policies.
• be familiar with using standard software (such as Excel) for statistical computations and economic data analysis
• retrieve, organise, analyse and present economic data in an informative manner.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the relationship between economic policy recommendations and the theoretical and empirical features of the economic analysis that underlie such recommendations
• the application of basic economic theory and economic reasoning to the analysis of economic policy

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• select and access a range of data sources to use for addressing economic policy question
• use quantitative reasoning and analyse and interpret data using standard software tools.

The module presents a number of policy cases (involving e.g. problems of pollution, credit rationing, taxation), deriving possible implications and consequences of different economic policies and interventions, both analytically and empirically. Empirical methods and use of data are taught as and when needed to address the specific policy cases.

Lectures, tutorials, computer lab sessions

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.