Economics of Transition and Emerging Markets

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

4

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Economic Theory and Econometrics (Faculty of Economics)

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

4 year, 2 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course covers topics: Growth Theory and the Poverty Trap Pathology, Imperial History, Geopolitics and Long Run Development, Optimal and Endogenous Growth, Political Economy of Natural Resources, Economics of Conflict, Aid Effectiveness: Sceptics vs Believers, Trade Openness, Growth and Poverty, Debt and Development. The course is conducted with https://online.hse.ru/local/showcase/?cid=3485 The course analyzes challenges faced by transition and emerging-market economies, i.e., those middle- and low-income countries, which have conducted market-oriented economic reforms and become integrated into the global economy since 1990s. The course discusses the use of machine learning methods for forecasting macroeconomic variables and economic growth parameters, which is achieved level DC 0.0.2.