Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Research topics in economics
2. Language of Instruction:
Vietnamese
3. Course Code:
RES601105
4. Credits:
4
5. Course Objectives:
This course provides students with a broad understanding of contemporary research areas and frontier debates in economics. It aims to connect theoretical frameworks with empirical findings across multiple fields—such as growth, inequality, labor, development, trade, environment, and digital transformation.
Students will learn to identify promising research questions, analyze key policy issues using economic reasoning, and evaluate how different branches of economics approach complex social and economic problems.
By the end of the course, students are expected to be able to:
1. Summarize and critically interpret recent research in diverse areas of economics;
2. Synthesize insights across fields to form coherent perspectives on economic policy;
3. Identify potential topics for independent research and propose feasible directions for further study.
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
The course helps participants learning the way economists use tools of economic analysis to study and interpret economic phenomena and make policy recommendations. In this course participants will get familiar with state-of-the-art methods of modeling economic theories, economic concepts, mainly through quantitative instruments. For this objective, the course introduces participants with lastest studies in selective advanced and classical topics in economics.
Each lecture introduces one or one group of important research topics in economics, the key analytical tools for studying that topic, and typical applications. Students will be presented with a variety of studies in Vietnam and around the world that illustrate the modeling of economic conceptsthe methods of data analyses and results discussions.
In addition to providing research ideas, and the operationalization of economic concepts into variables used in econometric models, the course also provides learners with readings and recent studies. This is to gain a deeper understanding of the presented topic and research methods.
This course helps learners understand how to transform economic concepts and economic theories into research topics, understand how to use quantitative methods to solve research questions.