Overall, you will acquire competencies to

• Conduct rigorous economic analysis in questions of interest for policy, business, and decision-making.
• integrate economic theory and empirical methods. 
• develop your communication skills and independent assessments. 
• analyse, comprehend and use experimental data to collocate the baseline organization in its economic context and understand the trend of the economic variables and the economic behaviour of people
• provide policy recommendations and strategic governance for Companies, NGO and Public organizations.
• predict the potential effects of economic decisions. 
• monitor and suggest corrections towards undertaken actions. 
• to address new development strategies within organizations, both public and private.

More in details, you will acquire knowledge from two fields:

Applied Economics: 

• hands-on experience in applying economic theories and a strong background in applied econometrics and data analysis 
• Ability of formulating questions scientifically, locating the relevant data, and applying up-to-date methods to analyse data
• Understanding how to interpret the results and to communicate the conclusions competently to decision makers, both specialists and non-specialists

Behavioural Economics:

• Advanced knowledge of the economic paradigm and its implications for human decision making.
• Understanding of heuristics and biases that characterize human decision making.
• Ability to model systematic deviations from rational benchmarks.
• Development of experiments, both in the field and in the lab, to investigate relevant behavioral patterns.

Career Opportunities

Graduates in Behavioural and Applied Economics learn to assess and interpret economics phenomena by combining the economic theory and the empirical evidence in the form of experimental data and observational data. This makes them able to put their expertise to work both in the private and the public sector as:

• Researcher in national and international research centres, think tanks and non-profit organizations (Bank of Italy, EU, UN, OECD, World Bank, FAO, UNICEF, etc…).
• Consultant in banks and financial institutions (European Central Bank, Bank of Italy, ...)
• Financial Adviser
• Data or market analyst for private companies
• Advertiser

This makes BEA graduates fit to work as market and data analysts or professional experts in different and complex economic systems with high responsibilities like multinational corporations, banks or government institutions, NGO's, as well as international research institutions and public administrations. 

Further Studies

In addition, BEA Master Programme provides graduates with the necessary foundations in economics and statistics to proceed to a PhD.