NES ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
2004-2005 Academic Year
To complete ME program each student has to fulfill the following academic requirements:
- One has to get 20.5 credits in total.
- One has to get 14.5 credits for the Obligatory Courses (for all students)
(see Table 1).
- One has to get not less than 1.5 credits for the General Fields (Table 2); some courses from at least three different General Fields have to be taken.
- Each student has to choose one out of three options:
A) to get 3.5 credits for the General Fields (Table 2), or
B) to get 2.5 credits for one of the Special Fields described in Tables 3-6, or
C) to get 2.5 credits for one of the Special Fields, described in Tables 7-8, and not less than 2.0 credits for the General Fields (Table 2)
- One has to write a term paper and Master Thesis.
Second year students have to announce their choices not later than November 5, 2004.
Table 1. Obligatory Courses for all students
No / Course / Credit1 / Macroeconomics1-6 / 3.0
2 / Microeconomics 1-5 / 2.5
3 / Math. for economists / 1.0
4 / Probabilities / 0.5
5 / Math. Statistics / 0.5
6 / Game Theory / 1.0
7 / Econometrics1-4 / 2.0
8 / Hist. Of Econ. Thought / 1.0
9 / Research Seminar / 2.0
10 / English / 1.0
Total / 14.5
Table 2. General Fields and Field Courses
No / Field / Course / Teacher1 / Development Economics / Growth and Development
Theory of Economic Reform / O. Moav
V. Polterovich
2 / Industrial Organization / Industrial Organization I
Industrial Organization II / O. Eismont
A. Bremzen
3 / International Economics / International Trade
Open Macroeconomics / V. Polterovich
R. Sosunov
4 / Labor Economics / Labor Economics I
Labor Economics II / R. Gronau
I. Denisova
5 / Public Economics / Public Economics I
Public Economics II / V. Makarov
L. Polishchuk
Table 3. Special Field: Finance
Special Obligatory Courses
No. / Course / Teacher1. / Theory of Investment / A. Goriaev
2. / Applied Time Series Econometrics / S. Anatolyev
3. / Corporate finance / A.Goriaev
4. / Continuous Time Finance / C. Kaner
5 / International Finance / G. Ovcharova
6 / Advanced Asset Pricing / G. Ovcharova
7. / Empirics of Financial Markets / A. Goriaev
8 / Risk Management / A.Goriaev
Table 4. Special Field: Data Analysis
Special Obligatory Courses
No / Course / Teacher1 / Applied Time Series Econometrics / S. Anatolyev
2 / Topics in Econometrics / S. Anatolyev
3 / Russia’s Financial System / E. Gurvich
4 / Transition / V. Popov
5 / Empirics of Financial Markets / A. Goriaev
6 /
Topics in Empirical Auctions
/ G. Kosenok7 / Topics in Empirical IO / G. Kosenok
Table 5. Special Field: Economic Policy
Special Obligatory Courses
No / Course / TeacherSpecial obligatory
Courses
1 / Public Economics I / V. Makarov
2 / Public Economics II / L. Polishchuk
3 / Theory of Economic Reform / V. Polterovich
4 / Transition / V. Popov
5 / Law and Economics / L. Polishchuk
6 / Regulation / O. Eismont
7 / Trade Policy / K.Yudaeva, N.Volchkova
8 / Antitrust / R. Pittman
9 / Russia’s Financial System / E. Gurvich
Table 6. Special Field: Industrial Organization and Trade
Special Obligatory Courses
No / Course / Teacher1 / Industrial Organization I / O. Eismont
2 / Industrial Organization II / A. Bremzen
3 / Regulation / O. Eismont
4 / International Trade / V. Polterovich
5 / Contracts / S. Guriev
6 / Antitrust / R. Pittman
7 / Trade Policy / K. Yudaeva,
N. Volchkova
8 / Topics in Empirical IO / G. Kosenok
Table 7. Special Field: Advanced Microeconomics
Special Obligatory Courses
No / Course / Teacher1 / Contracts / S. Guriev
2 / Topics in Empirical Auctions / G. Kosenok
3 / Behavioral Economics / A. Suvorov
4 / Law and Economics / L. Polishchuk
5 /
Economics of Corruption
/ M. Levin6 / Topics in Game Theory / G. Kosenok
Table 8. Special Field: Advanced Macroeconomics
Special Obligatory Courses
No / Course / Teacher1 / Monetary Theory / A.Deviatov
2 / Recursive Macroeconomics I / A. Deviatov
3 / Recursive Macroeconomics II / A. Deviatov
4 / Open Macroeconomics / A.Sosunov
5 / Natural Resources / O. Eismont
6 / Growth and Development / O. Moav
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