Economics

Throughout the Economics MPhil/PhD course from The University of Exeter the skills and expertise that you build are fundamental to your continuing professional development (CPD), and will be part of your toolset throughout your working life, whether academic or elsewhere. 

The Economics Economics  MPhil/PhD course from The University of Exeter The University of Exeter key facts:

• It’s great if you can enter the programme with research training and experience of research at Masters level, but we don’t expect you to be the finished article. You’ll get together straight away with your supervisor to identify your training needs, and you’ll both monitor and adapt them as your research develops and new challenges emerge.
• In the first year of your Economics programme from The University of Exeter, the appropriate department(s) in the Business School will specify discipline and subject-specific training which may be methods training, research philosophy, or thematic modules to upgrade your knowledge of the subject. You may be asked simply to attend some modules; you may be required to pass others that are vital to your doctoral studies.

Courses include:

• advanced econometrics

• asset pricing models

• behavioural finance

• industrial organisation and contract theory

• decision theory

• econometric analysis

• economics of trade

• environmental economics