Jena - Trento (2018)

This page describes a proposal for the syllabus for students who participate in the Double Degree Master Program in cooperation with the Universitá degli Studi di Trento and who spend their first year in Jena and their second year in Trento.

From 2020/21 students follow the Syllabus for the “Laurea Magistrale in Behavioural and Applied Economics - Economia Comportamentale e Applicata”.

It assumes that students in Trento are enrolled in the “Laurea Magistrale/specialistica in Economics (MEC)”. This degree will expire soon. It may no longer be available in 2020/21. Students who have started the Double Degree before 2016 can follow the old syllabus.

This syllabus recommends one possible path through the study regulations of Jena and Trento. It is possible to deviate from this path. However, Students who plan to deviate from the syllabus do this on their own responsibility. They have to make sure that they are still studying in accordance with the regulations in Jena and in Trento. They are advised to make explicit learning agreements to ensure that the courses they are taking can be credited in Jena and in Trento.

All students must to apply for their seminars in Jena through the central seminar registration. To register, students must use either their @uni-jena.de or their @studenti.unitn.it Email address. Please do not miss the deadline — the application procedure starts several months before the first seminar!

Students can choose one out of two Specialisation areas:

• Innovation and Change
• Economics and Strategy

1st year in Jena (60-66 ECTS)

Compulsory (42 ECTS):

• MW26.1-Approaches to Economic Science (6 ECTS) (equivalent to Advanced Data Analysis and Mathematical Models 1 (6) in Trento).
• MW24.5-Quantitative Economics III (6 ECTS) (equivalent to Advanced Data Analysis and Mathematical Models 2 (6) in Trento).
• MW26.5-General Key Qualifications (6 ECTS) (equivalent to Management and Business Decisions (8) in Trento).
• MW24.1-Empirical Methods (6 ECTS) (equivalent to Econometrics (8) in Trento).
• MW20.1-Advanced Microeconomics (6 ECTS) (equivalent to 1/2 Microeconomics and Game Theory (10) in Trento).
• MW20.3-Economics and Innovation: Innovation Decisions (6 ECTS) (equivalent to 1/2 Microeconomics and Game Theory in Trento).
• MW21.1-Advanced Macroeconomics (6 ECTS) (equivalent to Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy (10) in Trento).

Alternative 1: Seminar (6 ECTS):

• Seminar (6 ECTS) (equivalent to a Laboratory in Trento).
  (DD students should explain in their seminar application in Jena that they need this specific seminar for the DD).

  Alternatively: Students can take a Laboratory in their 2nd year in Trento.

Specialisation (18 ECTS)

Students take one of the following two specialisations:

Innovation and Change

• MW20.4-Industrial Dynamics and Evolution (6 ECTS) (equivalent to Industrial Organization (8) in Trento).
• MW22.3-Innovation Systems (6 ECTS) (counts as Area Economics (6) in Trento).
• MW21.4-Growth and Innovation (6 ECTS) (counts as Area Economics in Trento).

Economics and Strategy

• MW24.2-Quantitative Economics I (6 ECTS) (counts as Area Economics (6) in Trento).
• Two specialisation elective courses (6 ECTS + 6 ECTS) (counts as Area Economics (6+6) in Trento).

Students who in Jena do not get access to the courses they need for the DD should immediately consult the School of EconomicsProgram Coordinator for the Master in Economics.

2nd year in Trento (60-64 ECTS)

Students who spend their second year in Trento obtain 64 ECTS as follows:

Compulsory (24 ECTS)

• Law and Economics (6 ECTS) (counts as Basic elective (6) in Jena).
• Laboratory Experimental Economics (4 ECTS) (equivalent to 1/4 Master Thesis in Jena).
• Master Thesis (14 ECTS) (equivalent to 3/4 Master Thesis in Jena).

Alternative 2: Seminar (4 ECTS)

If no Seminar was taken in the first year, the following is compulsory:

• Laboratory International Economics (4 ECTS) (equivalent to Seminar (6)).

Area Business (8 ECTS)

Students take one of the following two courses:

• Strategy and Innovation Management (8 ECTS) (counts as Free module in Jena).
• International Corporate Strategy (8 ECTS) (counts as Free module in Jena).

Area Economics (16 ECTS)

Students take two out of the following four courses:

• Economics of Institutions (8 ECTS) (counts as Basic elective in Jena).
• International Economics (8 ECTS) (counts as Basic elective in Jena).
• Applied International Economics (8 ECTS) (counts as Basic elective in Jena).
• Behavioural Economics (8 ECTS) (counts as Basic elective in Jena).

Free choice (12 ECTS)

Students take two out of the following courses. Students with the specialisation area “Economics and Strategy” who have not taken “Behavioural Economics” above have to take “Experimental Economics” here.

• Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making (6)
• Experimental Economics (6)
• Decision Theory (6)
• Game Theory (6)
• Labor and Household Econ. (6)
• Development Economics (6)
• Economics of European Integration (6)
• Economics of Institutions (6)
• Open Macro and Growth (6)
• Poverty Analysis and Policies (6)