Postgraduate course 2024/2025

Quantitative Methods for Assessing Reform and Regulatory Impact

Type: Elective course

Area of studies: Postgraduate Studies

Delivered by: Department of Applied Economics

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Elena Kotyrlo

Language: English

ECTS credits: 2

Contact hours: 40

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course focuses on complexity of identifying the precise effects of a policy. It provides a comprehensive overview of methods and approaches in designing and evaluating programs and policies under uncertainty and confounding conditions. Several reform cases and their evaluation that will be presented in the course. The topics of the study are aimed to review various areas of economics, where policy evaluation can be implemented. The cases will be mostly based on Russian experience.