Certificate Course on Applied Economics: theory and empirics

18 Jan 2008

in Training Workshop

2672

Organized with support from Brac-RED
Period: 18-19 and 25-26 January 2008.

Course Coordinator:
Sajjad Zohir, Research Director, ERG

Course Instructors/Resource Persons:
Fahad Khalil
Sajjad Zohir

Short Description:

The aim of this short course was to provide an introduction in applying economics to understand the real world. This training program taught on applied theory and developing research questions from observations on real world and on empirical methods with a focus on using data to set up and test a hypothesis. It also focused on clarifying the idea that all observed data are to be interpreted as equilibrium outcomes of some model and optimizing behavior by economic agents.

Participants: 12 Persons from: EWU, Unnayan Onneshan, University of Dhaka and ERG