2nd-year courses

During their second year students will choose with the help of their supervisor six more courses, consistent with their field of specialization among the available options (see below). All second-year students are required to present a paper in the second-year Fall PhD Forum (in 2011 it will be held on Wednesday, December 14): all doctoral students, supervisors and other members of the DSE are invited to the PhD Forum in which second-year students will present a complete draft of the first paper of their thesis. The admission to the third year is conditional on passing the six second-year courses, on receiving a positive assessment of the presentation in the PhD Forum by the PhD Faculty (Collegio dei Docenti) and on active participation to the seminars and workshops organized by the DSE. Students will be informed by the end of June about their admission to the third year.

Advanced courses for second-year PhD will be available in the following fields (the list is provisional and will be updated with more details and instructors):
  • Advance Math
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • Econometrics
  • Finance
  • Industrial Organization and topics in Microeconomics
  • Law and Economics
  • Macroeconomics, Growth and Development

    • Some of the courses will consist of reading groups where students actively participate in presenting relevant papers.

    More courses can be chosen among those offered by other programs within the University and theDoctoral School in Economics and Statistics; please note in particular the following programs and their teaching activities:

    - European Doctorate in Law and Economics

    - PhD in Statistics