APPLIED MICROECONOMETRICS (FAME07)

Basic Information

• Code: FAME07
• Location: Helsinki
• Time: November 12-16, 2007
• Deadline for applications: November 5, 2007
  • Application form
  • Doctoral students not enrolled in FDPE, including students in foreign universities, are able to attend individual courses. See "How to Apply for the FDPE courses".

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Overview

The course includes 20 hours of lectures, (exercises) and an exam. FDPE recommends that the course is acknowledged by the student's own university/department with 2 credits/3 ECTS credit points (credit= a standard unit comprising 40 hours of studies; ECTS credit point = in European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) the annual student workload amounts to 1600 hours. The concept of the student workload refers to the time required to achieve the set learning outcomes of a programme. A total of 60 credits will measure the workload of a full-time student during one academic year).

FDPE arranges 4-5 field courses on varying topics each year. All courses are given in English.

The aim is to provide field courses that match the special courses available during the same academic year. Field courses provide essential background for special courses that deal with similar topics and/or use similar techniques. It is therefore strongly recommendable to view field and special courses as a package.

Field courses are intensive courses. Thus, it is strongly recommended that students acquaint themselves with the required readings before attending the courses.

Field courses organized by FDPE can be included in the student-specific field of studies. These courses have to be accepted as part of the doctoral studies by the students’ home department before the grades can be registered. Students' home departments are responsible for registering the grades according to their own requirements. FDPE gives the students, on request, a certificate of the courses passed within the programme.

See also Past Applied Microeconometrics Course 2005

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Instructor

• Dr Otto Toivanen (HECER)

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Exercises

• Exercises are due on December 7, 2007
• Exercise session: December 19, 2007, from 10 to 12, seminar room 1, Economicum building
• Lotta Väänänen is the teaching assistant.

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Exam

• Time: Friday, November 30, 2007, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
• Places:
  • AT THE PARTICIPANTS' OWN DEPARTMENTS
  • but in Helsinki only at one university where all students living in or near Helsinki can take the exam: Economicum building, Arkadiankatu 7, seminar room 1 (ground floor).
• Please register for the exam by sending an e-mail to fdpe-hecer(at)helsinki.fi (and let us know where you want to take the exam).
• Participants at foreign universities, please contact FDPE, fdpe-hecer(at)helsinki.fi.

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Travel Grants

• Nordic Network in Economics (NNE) will provide travel grants for a limited number of Nordic and Estonian doctoral economics students for participating in this course. Please apply for travel grants on line.
• The Society for economics professors and docents in Finland (Kansantaloustieteen professorien ja dosenttien yhdistys ry) gives travel grants to doctoral economics students, please see FDPE website Financial Aid.

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