Economics

 

The Department of Economics

Welcome to the Department of Economics at Hanken!
Below you will find information on staff, research, doctoral studies, and studies for Master's degree.

Details of all courses can be found in the Study Handbook

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Economics

Economics forms the basis for the systematic thinking on economic interaction in society. The subject offers a basic perspective and analytical tools that can be applied on an individual, on a corporate level, and all the way up to the global level.

Economics builds on a logically consistent structure, which relies on rational criteria for decision making. The subject offers perspective on essential features of all types of markets ranging from local retailers to global currency markets. Economics is the subject to choose if you want to obtain deeper insights into how markets work and interact.

The courses oriented towards microeconomics deal with analyses of competition with a focus on how firms, organisations and industries should be organised to achieve efficiency.

Issues covered include analyses of corporate strategies to create sustainable competitive advantage and of assets market characterized by incomplete information.

Courses offered in macroeconomics focus on wide-ranging issues of economic policy. Examples of topics are: Why do we have structural unemployment and how can it be reduced ? Why should monetary policy be conducted by an independent central bank? What kind of distortions will be generated by politician, who depend on support from voters at regularly organized elections

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Research in Economics

Studies for Ph.D

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Seminars

The department is an active partner within the framework of Helsinki Centre of Economic Research (HECER). HECER organises regular seminars within four different seminar series. For closer information please see www.hecer.fi/Seminars/

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