Economics

This interdisciplinary course addresses sustainability, climate change, and how to combine economic development with a healthy environment. The course explores greening the economy and the sustainable development goals on four levels – individual, business, city, and nation, and looks at the relationships between these levels. Practical examples of the complexities and solutions across each level are discussed. A particular focus is placed on examples from Scandinavia, but the course also features examples from Europe and around the world, which taken together provide a practical starting point for learning about greening the economy and the relationship to sustainable development goals.

This course covers the basic and important concepts in microconomics. Topics include consumer, producer, and market equilibrium, various market structures, decision making under uncertainty, and how to apply microeconomics frameworks to trade, law, politics, and blockchain.

This is a graduate level course that is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Courses in the LM in Business Administration degree program are typically not available to UCEAP exchange students. Enrollment in this course is by consent of the instructor. The course refers to the most important variables for international marketing and marketing mix investments in different markets. The course explores the following questions: what is the difference between managing a domestic market and a multinational portfolio of businesses; what are the methods to analyze foreign markets and consumers; what are success stories of international marketing strategies useful to companies that are internationalizing their business?

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course focuses on trading mechanisms in financial markets: the main challenges, the economic principles, and the statistical models for analyzing the data they generate. The course explores in detail the modeling of high frequency financial data. Special attention is placed on the structure of modern financial markets, the conceptual basics of trading, and the use of economic and econometric models in the high frequency domain.

This course starts with basic concepts in investments including time value of money, bonds, duration, and equities. Then we study the risks and the returns that are applied to Markowitz’ modern portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model. The derivative securities such as forwards and options are introduced. Topics include Bond Price and Yields, Yield to Maturity, Duration, Equity Valuation, Markowitz’ Portfolio Theory, and Forwards and Options.