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

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

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

Choose one elective course from either the programme-specific elective course list or from the general elective course list.

Programme-specific elective courses

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

Course	Credits	Semester
Grand Strategy and the Multipolar World (Dutch)	6	1
Strategic Management and Policy (Dutch)	6	1
Bayesian Statistics	6	2
Agricultural and Food Economics (Dutch)	6	2
Labour Law and Social Security Law (Dutch)	6	2
Environmental Law (Dutch)	6	J
Urban and Regional Economy (Dutch)	6	1
Insurances (Dutch)	6	1
Transport Economics (Dutch)	6	2
Introducion to European Union Law (Dutch)	6	1
Internship	6	J
Economics of Development	6	1
Advanced Macroeconomics: Equilibrum and Dynamics	6	2
Advanced Microeconomics: Game Theory and Asymmetric Information	6	1
Advanced Econometrics: Non-linear Methods	6	2
Research Seminar	12	2