Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2025-26

This course is designed to support student's elaboration of their final MSc dissertation.

 

 

Learning outcomes / Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26

Skills/Skills

  • RA03 : Critically analyze research articles in Economics, identifying their essential contributions and weaknesses
  • RA05 : Understand how technical problems in research articles have been addressed and be able to replicate the empirical analysis and simulation experiments on which they are based

 

Conocimientos/Contenidos

  • RA01 : Understand the fundamental theoretical framework of economics at a rigorous formal level

 

Skills/Competences

  • RA04 : Formulate relevant economic problems precisely and provide appropriate solutions using theoretical, empirical, or simulation-based analysis
  • RA06 : Master effective communication of research findings, using clear and precise approaches to convey complex information in an accessible and comprehensible way
  • RA07 : Develop original ideas that help understand or solve economic problems.
  • RA14 : Be able to develop and learn autonomously about topics related to Economics and Data Science

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

  • Plan the phases and processes of a research project.
  • Apply the knowledge and skills acquired in the master program.
  • Produce a report or research article describing the problem addressed, the relevant literature, the proposed solution, and a synthesis of conclusions.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26

The objective is to finish the course with an original research paper with sufficient results to be considered relevant for academy and/or private sector.

 

 

General

Code: 49181
Lecturer responsible:
Albarrán Pérez, Pedro
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 0,00
Practical credits: 0,60
Distance-base hours: 5,40

Departments involved

  • Dept: Economic Analysis
    Area: Foundations of Economic Analysis
    Theoretical credits: 0
    Practical credits: 0,6
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught