Program Curricula
Curricula
The PhD program includes two curricula, focusing on the following topics:
Development economics:
- analysis of poverty and inequality, labour markets and informality, population and household economics, agriculture and rural development, gender economics, social protection, conflicts
- macroeconomics of development, financial crises, global economic integration and regulation
- international trade, international finance, global value chains, migration, international cooperation and foreign aid
- natural resource management, sustainable development, climate change, shocks and resilience
- evaluation of the impact of policies and programs, program and project management
Local development:
- industrial and spatial economics and policy
- entrepreneurship and eco-systems
- business economics, management, organization theory
- economics and management of innovation
- inter-organizational network analysis
- industrial district and cluster theory
- urban and regional economics
- evolutionary economic geography
- sustainable local development patterns
- culture, creativity and innovation in local systems
- cultural heritage, digitization and AI
- AI, marketing, management and regional sciences
- international business, firm internationalization, multinationals
- Supply chain, local systems and deglobalisation