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University Official Master's Degree in Industrial Organisation

Participating institutions

Rovira i Virgili University

Compulsory student mobility: no

Presentation

The main objective of this official master’s degree in Industrial Organisation is to provide students with the necessary training to allow them to carry out their future professional activities or to work as research specialists in the fields of industrial organisation related to the economic analysis of market structure and company performance. In addition, it incorporates a specialisation profile in public economics designed to train professionals for positions in different areas of public institutions, where knowledge of economic aspects and relations is increasingly needed. In its research pathway, the master’s degree offers the training and instruments needed for undertaking rigorous research and writing a doctoral thesis.

Admission requirements

The Master's Degree courses are open to anybody with an official university qualification, even Spanish or foreign (this foreign degree must enable you to be admitted to postgraduate studies in the country where you obtained it).

In addition, universities in charge of the organization of a Master can establish those procedures and requirements considered necessary to be finally admitted to the Master. Therefore, as well as having a previous official degree, you should get informed about additional conditions and selection criteria which may have been addittionally established by each Master.

Contents

Course taught in: Catalan and Spanish 


The master’s degree offers two alternative pathways: professional specialisation and research. Each is structured into two one-year courses with 60 ECTS credits each. In this way, graduates in Economics or Company Administration and Management can enter straight into the second year, as they only need the final 60 credits to obtain the master’s degree. Within each pathway the first course is common to all students, while the second course consists of a module of subjects common to all students and optional specialisation modules that define the different educational profiles of the master’s degree.

Professionalisation pathway

First course (60 ects)

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Spanish and World Economics, Statistics, Administrative Law, Econometrics, Company Organisation and Administration, Public Economics, Theory of Industrial Organisation and Economic Decision Analysis

Second course (60 ects)

Compulsory module (48 ects):

Industrial Organisation and Regulation, Microeconometric Techniques, Public Sector Theory, Evaluation of Public Policies, Local Law I, International Civil Law I, Company and Public Institution Management, Public Accounting and Practicum

Optional modules (12 ects):

Industrial Economics specialisation module: Technological Innovation, Strategic Management, Applied Industrial Economics and Industrial Localisation


Expenditure Policies specialisation module: Local Development, Environmental Economics, Health Economics and Labour Economics


Law specialisation module: Administrative Law II, Local Law II, International Civil Law II and the Legal Regime of Personnel in Public Administrations


Management specialisation module: the Marketing and Communications of Public Organisations, Quality Management in Public Organisations, Human Resource Management in Public Organisations and Comparative Public Management in the framework of the EU
 

Research pathway

First course (60 ects) 

Higher Microeconomics, Economic Policy, Industrial Organisation Theory, Econometrics I, Public Sector Theory, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Public Taxation, Econometrics II, Industrial Policy, Financial Markets and Instruments

Second course (60 ects)

Compulsory module (36 ects):

Financial and Monetary Economics, Advanced Econometrics, Decision Mechanisms, Analysis and Evaluation of Public Policies and Research Project

Optional modules (24 ects):

Industrial Economics specialisation module: Industrial Market Dynamics, Innovation and Technological Change, Empirical Industrial Organisation and Research Seminar (Privatisation, Science Economics and Economic Globalisation)


Public Economics specialisation module: Game Theory for Public Decisions, Design and Implementation of Public Policies, Analysis of Political Processes and Research Seminar (Education Economics, Health Economics and Environmental Economics)

  

Modes

- Professionalisation
- Research

Official Master's degrees offer specific Modes which will be effectively initiated -or not- depending on the number of students finally admitted.

Pre-registration

The preregistration period (1st phase) will begin on 1st March and end on 30th April.

If all the places available are not taken within this period, a new preregistration period will be opened (2nd phase) between 1st and 30th June.

The preregistration must be carried out on the Internet. The online form will become operative on the first day of the preregistration period. preregistration application.

For academic questions, please get in touch with the coordinator of the Masters. For administrative information, contact the secretariat of the faculty/school that teaches the Master's Degree; if you have been offered a place in the program on the strength of a foreign qualification, the Postgraduate and Doctoral School will inform you of the documents you will need.

Pre-registration on-line

 Contacte acadèmic (coordinador)

 Dr. Miquel Àngel Bové Sans

 Dpt. Economy (Faculty of Economic and Business Sciencies)

 977 759 851

 miquelangel.bove(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat
 Administrative contact (secretary)

 Secretariat of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences

 977 759 803/04

 capsfcee(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat
 Postgraduate and Doctoral School

 Edifici del Rectorat - Escala C, 1st floor - c/ Escorxador, s/n (Tarragona) 

 Tel: 977 558 478. Fax: 977 558 847 

 mastersoficials(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

 Office hours 

Mornings: Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 to 14.30

Afternoons: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 15.30 to 18.00 

July and August: Mondays to Fridays from 8.00 to 15.00

Further information

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