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Top Summer Schools 2017: Economics

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By INOMICS Team

28 March 2017

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If you want to learn about a new topic, to brush up on your skills, or to meet more people in your field, then summer schools are an ideal opportunity. Generally aimed at undergraduates, masters students, PhD students, researchers and professionals, these short courses involve teaching, discussion, and group projects.If you're an economics student, today we're listing the top summer schools for you to attend in 2017:

The Economics of Education: Analyzing the Effects of Programmes and Policies

Organizer: UB School of Economics, University of Barcelona

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Duration: Jul 3, 2017 to Jul 7, 2017

Details: This summer school aims at providing students with a set of tools to address current challenges in the area of the analysis and evaluation of different elements of the educational system. These tools cover both theoretical and methodological issues at the knowledge frontier of this field of study. Apply now to participate in this unique academic and personal experience during the first week of July in Barcelona!

CIMS Summer School: Foundations and Advanced Courses on DSGE Macroeconomics Modelling

Organizer: University of Surrey

Location: Surrey, United Kingdom

Duration: Sep 4, 2017 to Sep 8, 2017

Details: This course is designated for PhD students and academics who want to develop or extend their knowledge of DSGE modelling. Applications from researchers and practitioners working at central banks, as well as at other private and public institutions, working or interested in DSGE modelling are also welcomed. The School will consist of two parallel four-day courses and four parallel one-day stand-alone courses on day five. Participants can register for all five days, or for only one of the stand-alone one-day courses. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as the places will be allocated using a rolling selection process.

11th Edition of the Barcelona GSE Summer Schools in Economics

Organizer: Barcelona GSE

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Duration: Jun 26, 2017 to Jul 7, 2017

Details: The Barcelona Graduate School of Economics welcomes the summer with a diverse range of summer schools in economics and related fields. These short summer programs are addressed to researchers, professionals and graduate students who want to improve their competences in specific fields of knowledge. Renowned academics and leading practitioners teach the summer school courses, which draw participants from all over the world.

PSE Summer School

Organizer: Paris School of Economics

Location: Paris, France

Duration: Jun 19, 2017 to Jul 7, 2017

Details: PSE Summer School offers research-oriented teaching by leading experts in their fields. It seeks to gather Master and PhD students, post-doctoral students, academics, and professionals. PSE proposes four intensive one-week programmes, each being a full-time mix of coherent courses on topical issues, taught by PSE professors.

EcoMod Modeling School Prague

Organizer: EcoMod

Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Duration: Jun 26, 2017 to Jun 30, 2017

Details: EcoMod is the world’s leading research, advisory, and educational not-for-profit network dedicated to promoting advanced modeling and statistical techniques in economic policy and decision making. Its summer school curriculum includes courses in general equilibrium modeling, GVAR, DSGE, fiscal and budgetary policy and macro-econometric modeling using GAMS, Matlab, dynare and Eviews. The training is fully practical and provides 'hands-on' experience through intensive use of exercises on the computer. EcoMod offers a limited number of partial scholarships to candidates from developing countries and transition economies.

12th Advanced Summer School on Nonlinear Cross-Section and Panel Regression Models with Focus on Count Data

Organizer: University of Crete

Location: Crete, Greece

Duration: Jul 30, 2017 to Aug 6, 2017

Details: This course taking place in a beautiful city of Crete will cover regression methods for count data, such as number of doctor visits, where the dependent variable is a nonnegative integer. While the focus is on count data, most of the methods are applicable to nonlinear regression models in general, and the relevant general frameworks will be presented ahead of specialization to counts. All methods will be carefully illustrated in full detail by applications to cross-section and panel count data examples.

Warwick Economics Summer School

Organizer: University of Warwick

Location: Coventry, United Kingdom

Duration: Jul 16, 2017 to Aug 4, 2017

Details: The Department of Economics at The University of Warwick offers a three week programme aimed at current undergraduates studying economics, students progressing to Masters level study as well as professionals. All courses on offer are taught by world leading economists. It is an excellent opportunity for students to further enhance their skills and knowledge in economics through studying at one of the leading economics departments in Europe.

The 9th Summer School International - Global & Chinese Economy

Organizer: Peking University

Location: Beijing, China

Duration: Jul 3, 2017 to Jul 28, 2017

Details: This summer program offers a wide variety of academic courses in economics taught in English. It also provides Chinese language courses to students at beginner's level. All courses will be held at the Peking University campus. Upon completion of the programme, students will receive an official transcript and earn academic credits from Peking University.

International Summer School in Economics Education

Organizer: Hebrew University

Location: Jerusalem, Israel

Duration: Jul 10, 2017 to Aug 10, 2017

Details: A five-week summer school in economics includes a series of courses in economics and finance designed to prepare students for graduate studies (in the U.S. and Europe). The courses are taught by leading Hebrew University faculty and supported by teaching assistants who meet with the students throughout the program.

ÊSTIMATE - Early Summer Tutorial In Modern Applied Tools of Econometrics

Organizer: Michigan State University

Location: East Lansing, MI, United States

Duration: Jun 9, 2017 to Jun 11, 2017

Details: Econometrics has long been a strength of the Economics Department at Michigan State University. Their summer program gives empirical practitioners, academic researchers, industry/government researchers/analysts, and graduate students, access to econometrics training usually reserved for students formally enrolled in PhD programs at MSU. ÊSTIMATE is an intensive weekend workshop taught by world class econometricians. ÊSTIMATE’s focus is modern econometric tools as used in practice. Participants learn methods and techniques to use immediately in their empirical research. ÊSTIMATE’s goal is to broaden and improve the practice of econometric methods throughout empirical research and data analysis in academics, industry and government.

Harvard Summer School in Economics

Organizer: Harvard Summer School

Location: Cambridge, MA, USA

Duration: Jun 19, 2017 to Aug 6, 2017

Details: This course covers both micro- and macroeconomics. The microeconomic subjects studied include the workings of the market mechanisms—how supply and demand determine the quantities and prices of goods and factors of production and international trade, and how quantities and prices are affected by government intervention. The macroeconomic subjects include the determinants of economic growth, financial institutions, short-run fluctuations in output and employment, inflation, macroeconomics of the open economy, and the role of government policy.