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Learning outcomes (2024–2026)

Degree/title obtained

Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration

Learning outcomes

We divide the goals into three categories, general knowledge, specific knowledge, and skills. The goals for each category are listed below.

Specific Knowledge

• Understand how the financial markets work, how corporations are financed, and how investments are evaluated

• Understand how rational decisions are made, and what types of mistakes real flesh-and-blood people are likely to make

• Understand how globalisation and international trade affect the development of individual countries, and how national strategies affect the outcome

• Understand how investments in the public sector are evaluated, and the theoretical foundations of these evaluations

• Understand how statistics and econometrics may be used to support rational decision-making with relevant software

• Understand how to identify relevant research questions, and how to develop strategies to answer these

Skills

• Be able to use arbitrage-pricing-theory and game-theory to evaluate investment decisions and financing decisions

• Be able to use decision and game theory more generally, and be aware of behavioural pitfalls

• Be able to discuss the pros and cons of different national strategies for development and trade

• Be able to use cost-benefit analysis to evaluate public sector investments

• Be able to use empirical methods to support the skills above

• Be able to develop a research question, and to do relevant research to answer the question

General Knowledge

• Be able to communicate ideas and research effectively

• Be able to criticise ideas and research constructively

• Be able to use digital tools efficiently

• Be able to use the specific knowledge and skills in new creative ways