Economic Seminar
- Credits: 5
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 26sP
- Semester: winter
- Year: 1
- Faculty of Economics and Finance
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
The course consists of a series of seminars, selected topics are delivered by invited external lecturers or researchers from the home university. Students actively participate in the discussion by questioning assumptions, analyzing the methodology or the presentation of results.
By the end of the course students will
• Knowledge: get to learn about cutting-edge research from researchers in their respective fields
• Skills: interactively engage in scholarly debate
• Skills: successfully present their own research
• Competence: critically assess the analysis of other researchers
Indicative content
The presented research papers are beneficial for students in terms of research and / or methodology used. Students will prepare themselves for a moderated discussion on pre-distributed materials.
Discussed topics may include areas such as:
Industrial Economy
Assessment of socio-economic development "beyond GDP"
Evaluation of interventions and public policies
Income and opportunity inequalities: microeconometric analyses
Regional analyzes and spatial effects
Support literature
Papers to be discussed sent out beforehand.
LÁBAJ, M. - LUPTÁČIK, M. - NEŽINSKÝ, E. Data envelopment analysis for measuring economic growth in terms of welfare beyond GDP. In Empirica : Journal of European Economics. - Cham : Springer., 2014, vol. 41, pp. 407-4241.
LUPTÁČIK, M.- NEŽINSKÝ, Eduard. Measuring Income Inequalities Beyond the Gini Coefficient. In Central European Journal of Operations Research. - Heidelberg : Springer, 2019.
Requirements to complete the course
At least 80% attendance (monitored by sign-up sheets)
Total study load (in hours): 130 (participation at seminars 26 hours, studying research papers 52, preparation for discussion 52)
Language whose command is required to complete the course
English langauge
Date of approval: 12.03.2024
Date of the latest change: 14.06.2021