Economics

The course examines the main characteristics of the world economy, in the light of the globalization of economy, politics, and culture taking place over the last decades. Shifts in the center of gravity of the global economic system are outlined, as well as how various regions and countries relate to that system in different ways. Main actors and institutions that influence globalization are identified and analyzed, including multinational corporations, international institutions, and states. Examples from different economic sectors are studied, including how chains of production and consumption have changed and what the impacts have been for places and regions.

This course covers statistical and mathematical methods to analyze economic data. It emphasizes both the theory behind different statistical methods and estimators and their practical applications. The two main goals of the class are to prepare students for graduate work in economics or other social sciences and to teach data analysis skills to students who intend to work in industry or government. 

This course equips students with the tools and the knowledge required to understand, analyze, and manage the creation, development, and exploitation of innovation within companies. The course consists of three parts. Part one discusses industry dynamics of technological innovation, topics include sources of innovation, types and patterns of innovation, S-curves and diffusion of innovation, and network effects and platform markets. Part two discusses technology commercialization strategy and protection, topics include profiting from innovation; protecting innovation through Patents; and Trademarks, Copyrights, and trade secrets. The third part of the course discusses managing the innovation process, topics include selecting innovation projects, managing the R&D portfolio, organizing for innovation, managing new product development teams, and managing the new product development process.

This course discusses the Spanish economy, its current state and recent developments in different areas such as economic growth, productive structure, economic institutions, labor and capital markets, macroeconomic policies, and external sector.

This course provides an overview of long-term developments in the world economy and reviews how the theoretical insights of social scientists help us to understand world history better. The main emphasis is on understanding the two main problems of social and economic history: what are the origins and drivers of economic growth, and why does that process result in wide disparities in wealth?  Students independently carry out a research project and acquire skills relating to social and economic historians, for example, source criticism, and working with data and theory.

This course examines historical knowledge about the process of productivity growth since the Middle Ages. It cover the standard neoclassical (Solow) growth model and some augmentations; basic endogenous growth models; and the process of productivity growth.