Additional core courses Industrial Organisation track

• IO: Industrial Organization: Theory [VV-AIC] (10 EC)
• IO: Industrial Organization, Applied [VV-AEC] (10 EC)

Additional core courses International Economics and Finance track

• Advanced Corporate Finance [AC] (10 EC)
• Advanced Corporate Finance [VV] (10 EC)
• International Economics [VV-AIC] (5 EC)
• Beleggings- en Portefeuilletheorie [VV] (10 EC)
• Investments and Portfolio Theory [AC] (10 EC)

• History and Methodology of Economics [VV-AIC] (5 EC)
• Public Economics [VV-AIC] (5 EC)
• Monetary Economics [VV-AIC] (5 EC)
• Microeconomics: Game Theory [VV-AIC] (5 EC)
• Macroeconomics: Growth Theory [VV-AIC] (5 EC)
• Microeconomics for Development [AIC] (Course taught at the VU) (5 EC)
• International Economics [VV-AIC] (5 EC)
• Institutional Economics I: micro-institutional perspective [VV-AEC] (5 EC)
• Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics [VV-AEC] (5 EC)
• Political Economy: Dialectical methodology [VV-AEC] (5 EC)
• Institutional Economics II: macro-institutional perspective [VV-AEC] (5 EC)
• Macroeconomics: Monetary and Fiscal Policy [VV-AEC] (5 EC)
• History and Methodology of Economics: Research Frontiers [VV-AEC] (5 EC)
• Public Economics: Applied behavioural public economics [VV-AEC] (5 EC)
• Microeconomics: Behavioural Game Theory [VV-AEC] (5 EC)
• Labour Economics [VV-AEC] (5 EC)
• Ontwikkelingseconomie [VV-AEC] (5 EC)
• International Economics: International Economic Organisations [VV-AEC] (5 EC)
• Population Economics [EC] (5 EC)
• Ontwikkelingseconomie [KV] (5 EC)
• Methoden en Technieken van Survey-Onderzoek [KV] (5 EC)
• Financial Institutions [EC] (5 EC)
• European Economic Integration [EC] (5 EC)
• Economic Systems [EC] (This course is cancelled) (5 EC)
• Labour economics: Applied [EC] (5 EC)
• Economische Orde en Sociale Zekerheid [KV] (5 EC)
• Experimental Economics [CC] (5 EC)
• Transition economics [EC] (5 EC)
• Environmental Economics [EC] ( EC)

Students can select the electives from the list of elective courses of the specialisation Business Studies. After specific approval of the Examination Board, other courses, even courses outside the Faculty of Economics and Business, can be chosen.  

List of elective courses specialisation Business Studies

• Cultural Industries/Cultural Economics [EC] (5 EC)
• Population Economics [EC] (5 EC)
• Financial Institutions [EC] (5 EC)
• Technology Management [EC] (5 EC)
• Human Resources Management (HRM) [AC] (5 EC)
• Labour economics: Applied [EC] (5 EC)
• Economic Systems [EC] (This course is cancelled) (5 EC)
• European Economic Integration [EC] (5 EC)
• Management Support Systems [CC] (5 EC)
• E-Business [VV] (5 EC)
  A course description in English for this course is available from the second week in May 2008. Transition economics [EC] (5 EC)

Elective courses
Most courses of the Faculty of Economics and Business are a part of a programme curriculum. Several courses are not. These courses, electives or elective courses, are listed below. Please refer to the course descriptons for the entry requirements of the courses.

• Quarter I
  • Regulation [EC] (5 EC)
    This course is cancelled.
  • Cultural Industries/Cultural Economics [EC] (5 EC)
  • Economie en Transport: Personenvervoer [KV] (5 EC)*
  • Ontwikkelingseconomie [KV] (5 EC)*
  • Operationeel Management voor Bedrijfskunde [KV] (5 EC)*
  • Population Economics [EC] (5 EC)
• Quarter I+II
  • Sustainable Management [AC] (5 EC)
• Quarter II
  • Economie en Transport: Goederenvervoer [KV] (5 EC)*
  • Financial Institutions [EC] (5 EC)
  • Informatie- en Communicatietechnologie (ICT) [KV] (5 EC)*
  • Methoden en Technieken van Survey-Onderzoek [KV] (5 EC)*
  • Operationeel Management: Cases 1 [VV] (5 EC)*
  • Technology Management [EC] (5 EC)
  • Written Argumentation on Management and Policy [EC] (5 EC)
• Quarter III
  • Bedrijfssimulatie [KV] (5 EC)*
  • Corporate Governance [KV] (5 EC)*
  • Economic Systems [EC] (This course is cancelled) (5 EC)
  • European Economic Integration [EC] (5 EC)
  • Luchthaveneconomie [KV] (5 EC)*
  • Luchtvaarteconomie [KV] (5 EC)*
  • Management Support Systems [CC] (5 EC)
• Quarter IV
  • Debating [EC] (5 EC)
  • Economische Orde en Sociale Zekerheid [KV] (5 EC)*
  • Environmental Economics [EC] (5 EC)
  • Experimental Economics [CC] (5 EC)
  • Transition economics [EC] (5 EC)
  • Vastgoedkunde [KV] (5 EC)*
  • Written Argumentation on Management and Policy [EC] (5 EC)

*This course is taught in Dutch. Please refer to the Dutch course catalogue for a course description.