MASTER IN ECONOMICS

The Master in Economics / Economics is a fully taught in English classroom training 60 ECTS. The goal is to train students for both research and for decision -making in private and public institutions in the fields of management in companies, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Eco.Experimental.

Description of Materials:

• 4 ECTS 13 subjects to choose from 30 optional subjects (52 ECTS )

• Master's Thesis (8 ECTS)

Advantages of this Master:

• Study a second year in a business school in France (IBS) or Germany (SRH) at no extra charge tuition!

• Tackle the language barrier and difference your profile!

• An unforgettable intercultural experience and improve your employability

• High degree of employment

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Tuesday, 17 May, 2016

SEMINAR: "The Role of Global Value Chains During the Crisis: Evidence from Spanish and European Firms" joint With Marcell Jansen. Aranzazu Crespo (Middlesex University, UK). 

Aranzazu Crespo is Assistant Professor at the University of Middlesex. Her research focuses on international trade, economic development, competitiveness and economic policy. She has been Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute. She holds a PhD  in Economics from the Carlos III University of Madrid in June 2013 under the supervision of Professor Klaus Desmet.

This seminar focuses on the role played by global value chains in the European debt crisis as well as political challenges facing Spain. To do this, Aranzazu Crespo will provide a comparative analysis of Spanish exports, identifying the industries whose shares of value added are more important and, finally, she analyzes the capacity of global value chains to amplify or stabilize the economic crisis.

This seminar will be taught in the classroom D011 of the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales on Tuesday 17 at 10.30.

We hope it will be of your interest.

Friday, 6 May, 2016

SEMINAR: José Javier Domínguez Ramírez Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Universidad de Granada Economistas sin Fronteras 

José Javier Domínguez is a PhD student of Economic Analysis Area at University of Granada and ex-alumni of Master in Economics 2013/2014. His research involves the study of discriminatory behaviors based on prejudices and stereotypes on educational environments through an experimental methodology. His first investigation is framed on his master thesis that was selected with a third prize of the international contest New Economic Talent 2015. He belongs to research area of Economists without Borders Foundation through which is developed the project that present in the seminar and that is funded by Agencia Andaluza de Cooperación Internacional al Desarrollo.

The project that presents has the main goal on the study of discriminatory attitudes on educational environments. Based on an experimental methodology, it is tried to extract the main economic preferences such as altruism, selfishness or egalitarianism. However, the goal of this research is not only the determination of the distribution of the preferences but check if economic behavior differs when people are interacting with other-cultural people showing the existence of prejudices and stereotypes and its impact on economic behavior. 

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Seminar: “Parametric and non parametric tests for research in management and economics”. Snježana Pivac University of Split (Croatia).

Snježana Pivac is Full Professor at the University of Split, Croatia. She has a bachelor degree in Economics, and she also holds a Master and a PhD degree in Economics by the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Her main research interests are focused on Quantitative Methods in Economic Analysis,  Quantitative Analysis in Management, Financial Management, Financial Modeling, Multivariate and Multicriteria Methods. She has also published in several international journals such as International Journal of Social, Education, Economics and Management Engineering, Croatian Operational Research Review, and Panoeconomicus.

Actually,  Snježana Pivac is member of the Executive Committee of Croatian Operational Research Society,  member of Croatian Statistical Association and member of American Statistical Association.

She has also founded the journal “Croatian Operational Research Review” and she has collaborated in the development of the international encyclopaedia of statistical science “Springer's International Encyclopaedia of Statistical Sciences”.

The topics of this seminar are research (scientific) hypothesis and statistical hypothesis testing, non-parametric tests, independent samples and related samples. She will also present some  examples using SPSS software.

This seminar will take place on May 12^th, 10:30 hs, at room D011 of the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales. 

We hope you enjoy this seminar. 

Seminar: IT Governance & IT security. Implementation Roadmap for healthcare sector

Vladimir Stantchev is the executive director of the Institute of Information Systems at SRH Hochschule Berlin, Germany, where he is also a full professor. His major research interests are in the areas of IT governance, cloud computing architectures, IT strategy, as well as methods for service and software engineering. 

Stantchev is a senior member of the ACM, IEEE (Computer Society, Communication Society, and Standards Association), member of the University Professors Advisory Board of the German Informatics Society GI e.V., as well as board member at international conferences, journals and technology companies.

He is going to teach the seminar of the May 20th tittled as IT Governance & IT security, Implementation Roadmap for healthcare sector. The summary of this seminar is:

"Healthcare and the life sciences are one of the most challenging application domains for IT.

He will present an analysis of the legal regulations for cloud computing in healthcare based on decades-long industrial and academic expertise in cloud-based data processing for healthcare and life sciences organizations.

He will also outline and apply an implementation road map that helps organizations govern health data processing and storage."

If you are interested in that topic, you should be at room D-011 at the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales at 12.30 hs on May 20th. We hope you enjoy this seminar. 

SEMINAR: “IoT and Data Analytics as enablers for developing Servitization strategies. The application in Project Based Firms”

Carlos Galera Zarco is a researcher PhD candidate in Economics and Business from the University of Granada. 

He also holds a Master in Economics & International Management (Univ. of Granada & SRH Berlin, 2012) and a BSc. in Civil Engineering (Univ. of Granada, 2008). He has developed professional activity as a civil engineer at SACYR. He has been visiting lecturer at the MBA of Aston Business School (U.K.) and a scholarship student in the course on Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy by Warwick Business School (U.K.). His main area of research focuses on the development of innovation within Business Strategy, with special focus on Servitization and application of new technologies. He has published articles in scientific journals and has presented his research at several international conferences.

Servitization may be conceptualised as the transformation in the firm strategy from a focus on selling products to selling complete solutions. This strategy, based on the addition of associated services, offers several advantages which are suggested by Academy and practical experiences. The irruption of new technologies such as Internet of things, cloud computing or data analytics allow developing innovative strategies based on new advanced services. These strategies are transforming the business models in several industries as well as the way in which companies relate each other.

During this seminar we are also going to explain the application of these theories and the emergence of servitized business model in Project based firms.

If you are interested in that topic, you should be at room D-011 at the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales at 12.30 hs on April 29th. We hope you enjoy this seminar. 

Seminar: Francisco Javier Valverde García

Francisco Javier has both a bachelor degree in Pharmacology, and a bachelor degree in senior management of companies. He has also a master degree in Marketing in Pharmacology, and a master degree in Marketing and Consumer Behavior. 

He is currently working as manager at the Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo del Alimento Funcional (CIDAF) in the Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de Salud. Francisco Javier is also associate professor at the Departamento de Comercialización e Investigación de Mercados at the Universidad de Granada.

He has been Marketing Director and/or Managing Director in companies like Aguas de Lanjarón, Danone, Energizer, and Cervezas Alhambra. He has also worked in the pharmacology sector in companies like ASAC Pharma, Lipharma, and Lorgen.

He has also a strong research activity, mainly focused on marketing activities, biotech companies, and commercial communication.

Francisco Javier will teach the seminar “Acerca de la gestión en empresas del sector biotecnológico”, on June 1st.  If you are interested in that topic, you should be at room D-011 at the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales at 10.30 hs. We hope you enjoy this seminar.