Economics

How will we adapt to overcome the challenges posed by pandemic uncertainty? Economics isn’t optional to study right now: it’s vital to our future well-being in a post COVID-19 world. The skills you learn at Essex will be in high demand from employers in the coming years.

At Essex we have a unique strength in public policy measures to stimulate and manage the economy, including the behavioural techniques to get messages across. You could combine study of health economics with public economics and development economics to get a broad view of how one can respond to a threat such as COVID-19, balancing home and global needs.

Impatient to find solutions? Economic recovery is probably one the most pressing and urgent challenges right now and studying an economics degree gives you the unique tools to take on this challenge, find a solution, and improve well-being.

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We have a lot of courses...when applying you should consider what type of award you want to receive and the field of economics that interests you.

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There are three course types to choose from when you choose to study economics at Masters level:

• Masters
  • No quant background required
  • Consumers of economics, not producers
  • Likely to end up in these kinds of jobs; name jobs here
• MSc
  • Offers flexibility
  • Perfect for those who want to use quant in business
  • Likely to end up in these kinds of jobs, name jobs here
• MRes
  • Leads to PhD
  • An academic path
  • Likely to end up in these kinds of jobs, central banks / IMF etc etc

We know you need access to computers and a quiet place to work so we guarantee office space for you in our PhD Research Centre.Our staff have expertise in areas such as microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, and applied economics.

Although the list below is not exhaustive, it gives you an insight into the wide range of applied and theoretical topics we offer expert supervision on. 

• microeconomics
• macroeconomics
• industrial organisation
• econometrics
• economic history
• economic theory