Core Electives in MEcon

Students cover 16 - 26 ECTS credits with core electives in the Master of Economics.

The core electives for the MEcon are divided into core courses and other core electives. From the core courses at least 3 out of 10 courses (12 ECTS) must be selected.

Core Courses (3 out of 10)
Course	ECTS	Lecturer	Language	Semester
Advanced Macroeconomics III: Money and Prices	4	Gottlieb, Charles, Prof. Ph.D.	E	Spring
Advance Microeconomics III: Game Theory and Strategic Decisions	4	Bühler, Stefan, Prof. Dr.	E	Spring
International Trade	4	Föllmi, Reto, Prof. Dr.	E	Spring
Public Economics - The Economics of Taxation	4	Keuschnigg, Christian, Prof. Dr.	E	Spring
Political Economics	4	Hodler, Roland, Prof. Dr.	E	Fall
Industrial Organisation and Digitalisation	4	Bühler, Stefan, Prof. Dr.	E	Fall
Economics of Strategy	4	Gärtner, Dennis, Prof. Dr.	E	Fall
Theory of Finance	4	Söderlind, Paul, Prof. Ph.D.	E	Fall
Big Data Analytics	4	Matter, Ulrich, Prof. Dr.	E	Spring
Corporate Finance, Banking and Venture Capital	4	Keuschnigg, Christian, Prof. Dr.	E	Spring

In other core electives, you have a broader choice of courses. The information contained in the table below, shows the situation according to our current knowledge and plans. It is, however, not binding. Please refer to the official lecture programme of the University.

* Where codes of other Master’s programmes are shown this means that the course from this programme is open to MEcon students.

other Core Electives
Course	ECTS	Lecturer	Language	Semester
Advanced Econometric Methodes	4	Bonev, Petyo, Prof. Dr.	E	autumn
Data Handling III: Databases	4	Grossniklaus, Michael, Prof. Dr.	E	autumn
Debt and Fiscal Policy	4	Mankart, Jochen, Ph.D.	E	autumn
Economics of Central Banking	4	Nicolas Cuche-Curti, Nicolas, Dr.	E	autumn
Introduction to Web Mining for Social Scientists	4	Matter, Ulrich, Prof. Dr.	E	autumn
Quantitative Risk Management	4	De Giorgi, Enrico, Prof. Ph.D.	E	autumn
Real Estate Modelling (MBF*)	4	Adams, Zeno, Prof. Dr. Füss, Roland, Prof. Dr.	E	autumn
Recent long-run Macroeconomic Trends	4	Boppart, Timo, Prof. Dr.	E	autumn
Statistics (MiQE/F*)	4	Audrino, Francesco, Prof. Ph.D.	E	autumn
Theoretical Behavioural Finance	4	De Giorgi, Enrico, Prof. Ph.D.	E	autumn
Theory of Finance (MiQE/F*)	4	Söderlind, Paul, Prof. Ph.D.	E	autumn
Theory of Risk and Insurance (MBF*)	4	Schmeiser, Hato, Prof. Dr.	E	autumn
Asset Liability Management for Insurance Companies (MBF*)	4	Schmeiser, Hato, Prof. Dr.	E	spring
Asset Liability Management für Schweizer Pensionskassen	4	Baumann, Roger, Dr. Schiess, David, Dr.	D	spring
Asset Pricing (MiQE/F*)	4	Fengler, Matthias, Prof. Dr.	E	spring
Beyond Homo Oeconomicus: Decision Making and Well-being in Economics	4	Kolmar, Martin, Prof. Dr.	E	spring
Derivatives (MBF*)	4	Ammann, Manule, Prof. Dr. Schau, Nic, Prof. Dr.	E	spring
Econometric Methods for Financial Instruments	4	Fengler, Matthias, Prof. Dr.	E	spring
Financial Econometrics (MBF*)	4	Söderlind, Paul, Prof. Dr.	E	spring
Financial ModelingWorkshop: Asset Allocation (MBF*)	4	Kessler, Stephan, Dr.	E	spring
Financial Volatility (MiQE/F*)	4	Audrino, Francesco, Porf. Ph.D.	E	spring
International Macroeconomics	4	Muendler, Marc, Prof. Ph.D.	E	spring
Machine Learning	4	Horlemann, Anna-Lena, Prof. Dr.	E	spring
Microeconometrics	4	Lechner, Michael, Prof. Dr. Strittmatter, Anthony, Prof. Ph.D.	E	spring
Monetary Policy and Financial Markets (MBF*)	2	Ranaldo, Angelo, Prof. Dr.	E	spring
Multivariate Statistical Analysis with Python	4	Fengler, Matthias, Prof. Dr.	E	spring
Quantitative Economic Policy	4	Valladares-Esteban, Arnau, Prof. Ph.D.	E	spring
Real Estate Economics	4	Füss, Roland, Prof. Dr.	E	spring
Real Estate Finance	4	Adams, Zeno, Prof. Dr. Füss, Roland, Prof. Dr.	E	spring
Risk Management and Insurance (MBF*)	4	Braun Alexander, Prof. Dr. Schmeiser, Hato, Prof. Dr.	E	spring
Selected Topics in Swiss Public Finance	4	Schaltegger. Christoph, Prof. Dr.	E	spring
Time Series Econometrics	4	Fengler Matthias, Prof. Dr.	E	spring