Elective courses in the Master in Economics
In the Master in Economics you can choose a major (18 credits) and an elective course (6 credits).
A detailed description (course content, teaching method, ...) of each course can be found in the Course Catalogue.
Below you can find a short overview of all courses within the two majors and an overview of all the elective courses.
Major
Choose one major: Financial Institutions and Markets or Economic Policy. Within one major you have to follow 18 credits.
| Major: Financial Institutions and Markets | ||
| Name of the course | Credits | Semester |
| Economics of Banking | 6 | 1 |
| Economics of Financial Markets | 6 | 1 |
| Investment Analysis | 6 | 1 |
| Institutional Economics | 6 | 2 |
| Monetary Policy | 6 | 1 |
| Major: Economic Policy | ||
| Name of the course | Credits | Semester |
| Public Economics | 6 | 2 |
| Fiscal Policy | 6 | 2 |
| Environmental and Energy Policy | 6 | 1 |
| Trade and Migration Policy | 6 | 1 |
| Monetary Policy | 6 | 1 |
| Institutional Economics | 6 | 2 |
| Social Policy | 6 | 2 |
Elective course
Choose one elective course from either the programme-specific elective course list or from the general elective course list.
| Programme-specific elective courses | ||
| Name of the course | Credits | Semester |
| Trade and Migration Policy | 6 | 1 |
| Environmental and Energy Policy | 6 | 1 |
| Economics of Banking | 6 | 1 |
| Economics of Financial Markets | 6 | 1 |
| Investment Analysis | 6 | 1 |
| Public Economics | 6 | 2 |
| Fiscal Policy | 6 | 2 |
| Social Policy | 6 | 2 |
| General elective courses | ||
| Name of the course | Credits | Semester |
| Grand Strategy and the Multipolar World | 6 | 1 |
| Public Strategy and Behavior | 6 | 1 |
| Ecological Economics | 6 | 2 |
| Agricultural and Food Economics (Dutch) | 6 | 2 |
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Labour Law and Social Security Law (Dutch) |
6 | 2 |
| Legal Framework for Environmental Technology (Duch) | 6 | 1 |
| Urban and Regional Economy (Dutch) | 6 | 1 |
| Insurances (Dutch) | 6 | 1 |
| Competition and Regulatory Policy (Dutch) | 6 | |
| Transport Economics (Dutch) | 6 | 2 |
| Introduction to European Union Law (Dutch) | 6 | 1 |
| Economics and Ethics | 6 | |
| Internship* | 6 | J |
| Economics of Development | 6 | 1 |
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Advanced Macroeconomics: Equilibrum and Dynamics |
6 | |
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Advanced Microeconomics: Game Theory and Asymmetric Information |
6 | 1 |
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Advanced Econometrics: Non-linear Methods |
6 | 1 |
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Networks in Socio-economic Systems |
6 | 2 |
|
Research Seminar |
12 | 2 |
|
Powerful Learning Environments (Dutch) |
6 | 1 |
|
The Teacher within School and Society (Dutch) |
4 | 1 |
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Psychology of Adolescence (Dutch) |
4 | 1 |
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Classroom Management and Reflection (Dutch) |
4 | 2 |
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EU and global justice |
6 | |
|
Complexity economics and agent-based modelling |
6 | 2 |
|
Advanced topics in international macroeconomics |
6 | |
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Quantitative methods for dynamic economics |
6 | 2 |
* Enrolment for the internship is bound to deadlines, which depends on the period in which students wish to take the internship. In addition: it is only allowed to enrol for the internship after the internship coordinator has approved the internship agreement. More information about the internship.