PhD/Research MSc course on Structural Change and Aggregate Implications

The aim of the course is to review and evaluate recent advances in the research on structural change, in particular, how structural change helps us to understand various macroeconomic phenomena. By the end of the course students expected to have a good understanding of the data and measurement issues related to multi–sector models, and to able to work with various variations of multi–sector growth models.
  • PhD/Research MSc course on Structural Change and Aggregate Implications
  • 2019-11-11T00:00:00+02:00
  • 2019-11-15T13:00:00+02:00
  • The aim of the course is to review and evaluate recent advances in the research on structural change, in particular, how structural change helps us to understand various macroeconomic phenomena. By the end of the course students expected to have a good understanding of the data and measurement issues related to multi–sector models, and to able to work with various variations of multi–sector growth models.
  • When Nov 11, 2019 12:00 AM to Nov 15, 2019 01:00 PM (Europe/Helsinki / UTC200)
  • Where Helsinki, Arkadiankatu 7, Economicum building, seminar room 1 and 2
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Instructor: Akos Valentinyi (University of Manchester)

Place: Helsinki, Arkadiankatu 7, Economicum building, seminar room 1 and 2

Schedule:

Mon

November 11

12-15

lectures

seminar room 2

Tue

November 12

10-13

lectures

seminar room 1

Wed

November 13

10-13

lectures

seminar room 2

Thu

November 14

10-13

lectures

seminar room 1

Fri

November 15

10-13

lectures

seminar room 1

 

The course includes 15 hours of lectures, and writing an essay

Host University: Aalto University, Finnish Doctoral Programme in Economics

Instructions on how to apply/register for the course:
Please send a message to info-hgse@aalto.fi and provide following information:

  • Name of the course
  • First name(s)
  • Family name
  • Social security number (or birthday if you don’t have the Finnish social security number yet). As soon as you have received your Finnish Identity Code you are obliged to inform the university about it.
  • Home university
  • Student ID number at home university
  • Major
  • Doctoral or master student
  • Mobilephone number
  • E-mail address that you use regularly
  • Home address
  • Postal code
  • City
  • Gender
  • Nationality

This data is required by the host university in order to create a study right and to register the student’s course credits in the university’s data base and also to communicate with the participants. The data will not be used for any other purposes.

Description:
The aim of the course is to review and evaluate recent advances in the research on structural change, in particular, how structural change helps us to understand various macroeconomic phenomena. By the end of the course students expected to have a good understanding of the data and measurement issues related to multi–sector models, and to able to work with various variations of multi–sector growth models.

Syllabus (PDF)

Assessment:
After the end of the course you have to choose two articles in the area of structural change or two articles on multi–sector growth models, compare, and critically compare them in an essay of 5-8 pages. You will be assessed on the basis of this essay.

In order to transfer the credits to your home university, please ask for a transcript of records from Aalto university by ordering an online transcript of records or sending a message to study-biz@aalto.fi. The approval of the credit transfer is done according to your home university’s procedures.