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The coursework was structured in 5 main courses at the S. Anna School in Pisa:
- Mathematics for Social Sciences
- Statistics and Econometrics
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
- History of Economic Thought and Economic History.
Each course was organized into modules. The current list of compulsory first-year modules was:
1. Mathematics for Social Sciences
- Linear Algebra
- Calculus
- Differential Equations
- Static Optimization
- Dynamic Optimization
- Introduction to Stochastic Processes
2. Statistics and Econometrics
- Basics of Statistics and Econometrics
- Time Series
- Microeconometrics
3. Microeconomics
- Consumption Production
- Markets and Intro to Equilibrium
- Topics in General Equilibrium
- Game Theory
- Decision Theory
- Industrial Organization
- Organizational Economics
- Information, Knowledge and Innovation
- Technical Change and Industrial Dynamics
4. Macroeconomics
- Stylized Facts
- Introduction to Macroeconomics
- Economic Growth: Theory and Empirics
- Dynamic Macroeconomics I and II
- Topics in Macro: Consumption and Investment
- Evolutionary Macroeconomics
- History of Economic Thought and Economic History
- Economic History
- History of Economic Thought.
At the beginning of the second year of the program, short intensive modules in a few ed areas were offered in order to introduce the students to the international state-of-the-art of research. Modules might include:
- Innovation and industrial dynamics (Advanced);
- Neuroeconomics and cognitive foundations of economic and social behavior;
- Philosophical foundations and implications of economic theory and other social sciences;
- Economic and human development and welfare;
- Analysis and management of extreme risks;
- Law and Economics.
Student had access to one module available at the S. Anna School in Pisa., which included: Agent-based Computational Economics, International Trade, Labor Economics, Evolutionary models of innovation, growth and growth fluctuations.