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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 (38° cycle): 

First term Courses	Hours	Instructor(s)	Curriculum
Analysis of poverty and inequality	14	Renato Paniccià	DEV
Econometrics 1	12	Leonardo Grilli	DEV, LOC
Development Macroeconomics	18	Marco Missaglia	DEV
Economy-wide Models for Policy Analysis	24	Donato Romano, Gino Sturla, Emanuele Ferrari	DEV
Local Industrial Development	12	Marco Bellandi	LOC
Mathematical Methods of Economic Growth	12	Gianluca Iannucci	DEV
Microeconomic Data for Empirical   Research	18	D. Romano, Federico Ciani, Antonio Scognamillo, Marco Tiberti	DEV
Qualitative Market Research	6	Silvia Ranfagni	LOC
Strategic Management and organisation theories foundation	12	Tommaso Pucci, Daria Sarti	LOC
Second term Courses	Hours	Instructor(s)	Curriculum
Analysis of poverty and inequality alleviation policies	12	Luca Tiberti	DEV
Behavioral Economics	10	Chiara Rapallini	DEV
Data science for regional science: an introduction	6	Rafael Boix	DEV, LOC
Development and Environment	12	Simone Borghesi, Elisa Ticci, Gianluca Iannucci	DEV
Econometrics 2	14	Fabrizio Cipollini	DEV
Economics of malnutrition - Joint seminar	8	Donato Romano, Sebastian Vollmer	DEV
Innovation policies	10	Annalisa Caloffi	LOC
New paths of local developments and cultural creativity	14	Luciana Lazzeretti	LOC
Poverty Traps, Vulnerability and Resilience	8	Donato Romano, Pierluigi Montalbano	DEV
Social network analysis	10	Francesco Capone, Domenico De Stefano	DEV,LOC
Spatial Analysis and GIS Lab	6	Filippo Randelli	DEV, LOC
Trade and poverty	4	Pierluigi Monatlbano	DEV
Vulnerable Households and children - seminars	4	Lucia Mangiavacchi	DEV
Third term Courses	Hours	Instructor(s)	Curriculum
Cognitive skills development and school attainment	6	David Sahn	DEV
Cultural norms in economic development	6	Sylvain Dessy	DEV
Data science for regional science: an introduction	6	Rafael Boix	DEV, LOC
Ecosystem and Innovation	10	Silvia R. Sedita	LOC
Global value chains	8	Giorgia Giovannetti	DEV
Institutional Economics and Sustainability	10	Ermanno Tortia, Filippo Randelli	LOC
International Business and Entrepreneurship	14	Simone Guercini	LOC
Local development in LDCs	10	Mario Biggeri	DEV, LOC
Migration	2	Simone Bertoli	DEV
Population studies in low and high income countries: concepts, theories and methodological approaches	8	Elena Pirani, Valentina Tocchioni	DEV
Writing, presenting & publishing in DevEcon	14	Derek Headey	DEV
School of Social Science Seminars			DEV, LOC