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Courses List

DELoS courses will be held throughout the first year. They are organized in three terms, each of them comprising 6 weeks of courses and two weeks of exams:

- the first term (Nov-Dec) focuses on levelling the playing field providing (i) a refresh of micro, macro, statistics and econometrics basics, (ii) some topics in micro, macro and econometrics, and (iii) an introduction to research methods in social sciences;

- the second term (Jan-Feb) focuses on (i) research methods relevant for the two curricula and (ii) some topics in development economics and local systems;

- the third term (Mar-May) focuses on advanced research topics in development economics and local systems.

The course list is as follows (40^th cycle): 

First term Courses	Hours	Instructor(s)	Curriculum
Agricultural household models	6	Donato Romano	DEV
Analysis of poverty and inequality	10	Renato Paniccià	DEV
Development Macroeconomics	12	Marco Missaglia	DEV
Econometrics 1	12	Leonardo Grilli	DEV, LOC
Economic Growth: Mathematics and Empirics	12	Gianluca Iannucci | Roberto Martino	DEV
Economy-wide Models for Policy Analysis: I/O and SAM	12	Donato Romano | Gino Sturla	DEV
Local Industrial Development	12	Marco Bellandi	LOC
Microeconomic Data for Empirical   Research	14	D. Romano S. Burrone | L. Ferrone | F. Ciani | A. Scognamillo | M. Tiberti	DEV
Qualitative Market Research	6	Silvia Ranfagni	LOC
Strategic Management and organisation theories foundation	12	Tommaso Pucci, Daria Sarti	LOC
SEMINARS			DEV, LOC
Second term Courses	Hours	Instructor(s)	Curriculum
Analysis of poverty and inequality alleviation policies	12.5	Luca Tiberti	DEV
Behavioral Economics	10	Chiara Rapallini	DEV
Development and Environment	8	Simone Borghesi, Elisa Ticci	DEV
Econometrics 2	14	Fabrizio Cipollini	DEV
Food and nutrition security	6	Donato Romano	DEV
Innovation eco-systems and startup	8	Niccolò Innocenti	LOC
Labour Markets	6	Gianna C. Giannelli	DEV
New paths of local developments and cultural creativity	14	Luciana Lazzeretti, Stefania Oliva	LOC
Population studies in low and high income countries: concepts, theories and methodological approaches	8	Valentina Tocchioni, Elisa Brini	DEV
Social network analysis	10	Francesco Capone	DEV, LOC
Spatial Analysis and GIS Lab	6	Filippo Randelli	DEV, LOC
Vulnerable Households and children	4	Lucia Mangiavacchi	DEV
Third term Courses	Hours	Instructor(s)	Curriculum
Cultural norms in economic development	4.5	Sylvain Dessy	DEV
Data science for regional science: an introduction	4	Rafael Boix	DEV, LOC
The Economics of Conflicts and Peace	18	Donato Romano, Luca Tiberti et. al.	DEV
The Economics of Corruption	9	Emma Galli	DEV
The Economics of Migration	6	Anzelika Zaiceva, Mauro Lanati	DEV
Environmental insurance	9	Ilaria Colivicchi, Gianluca Iannucci	DEV
Innovation policies	10	Annalisa Caloffi	LOC
Global value chains	8	Giorgia Giovannetti	DEV
International Business and Entrepreneurship	14	Simone Guercini	LOC
Local development in LDCs	11	Mario Biggeri	DEV, LOC
Poverty Traps, Vulnerability and Resilience	14	Donato Romano, Pierluigi Montalbano	DEV
Quantitative Research Methods for Applied Microeconomists	17	Marco Letta	DEV
Advanced spatial models for policy and international agriculture	4	Chung Song	DEV