Master's Programme in Economics and Economic policy

Economics and Economic policy

New program

The purpose of this program is to prepare students for future work in academia, government agencies, private companies, and centers for economic analysis. Graduates of the applied economics track are trained to analyze and forecast the consequences of decisions in business and public policy. The research track provides thorough knowledge of economic theory and methods to carry out advanced theoretical and empirical research and prepares students for their future academic careers.

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Career Opportunities

Students of the Research Track receive intensive training in theoretical economics. The majority of the Research Track alumni choose an academic career, either to continue study at the HSE University Ph.D. program, since the Research Track is an excellent foundation for this or to continue to top Ph.D. programs abroad or in Russia.

Applied Economics and Economic Analysis tracks open up great prospects for an analytical career in the real sector. Deep knowledge of applied economics and quantitative skills of independent analysis will be acquired during the master studies are in high demand

• In central and transnational banks
• in international audit and consulting companies
• in analytical and financial-economic divisions of companies of the real and financial sector
• in research institutes and think tanks

The Research Track of the program inherits the experience of the master's program Economics: Research program, which first commencement took place in 2016. In four graduating classes, thirteen alums have entered top-ranked graduate schools, seven graduates received double degrees from European universities, and we expect this trend to continue.

Applied Economics and Economic Policy tracks succeed the Master's program in Applied Economics. Graduates of Applied Economics and Economic Policy tracks will acquire the following competencies:

• knowledge of economic theory at a sufficient level to be able to predict and analyze the consequences of decisions in the field of public policy or company policy;
• ability to develop projects of innovations and institutional design within the framework of state policy or company policy;
• economic data analysis, including data collection, descriptive analysis, statistical testing of hypotheses, identification of statistically significant patterns and causal relationships based on different data sets: spatial samples, time series, panel data, qualitative data.

The acquired competencies and skills will allow graduates of the program to find work in key segments of the labor market (on the examples of employment of graduates of the programs Applied Economics and Economics: research program):

• Ministries and Central Banks,
• Transnational banks
• Morgan Stanley
• Goldman Sachs
• Multinational audit and consulting companies:
• Ernst & Young
• Deloitte & Touche
• KPMG
• PwC
• Interbrand
• Analytical and financial-economic divisions of companies of the real and financial sector, like:
• IBM
• RenaissanceCapital
• IFC
• IMF
• Independent think tanks and academia, including HSE