Dear Students, We would like to inform you that a new elective course will be offered during the 2021-2022 academic year. Topics in Applied Economics will be taught in the second module of the autumn semester and will be geared toward providing students with a deeper knowledge of data analysis through use of frontier empirical approaches to hypothesis testing in applied economics. This year’s course topics include the following, further topics will be added shortly: 1) Research on subjective wellbeing: life satisfaction/happiness indicators, methodological issues, empirical findings and policy implication This part of the course deals with applied research on subjective wellbeing. The research developed from the well-known observation of the decoupling between GDP growth and the share of very happy people (Easterlin paradox). We will explain how life satisfaction is measured using cognitive, affective and eudaimonic indicators up to the novel generativity measures. We well deal with methodological issues and empirical research with special focus to the: gender happiness paradox, happiness and health, happiness and education, happiness and relative income). We will conclude on insights and policy implications for the definition of wellbeing indicators. 2) Empirical research on corporate social responsibility The old idea of benevolent planners solving market failures (differences between private and social optimum) has given way to a new more articulated welfare paradigm that takes into account the weakness, conflicts of interest and capture of domestic institution in the global economic system. Corporate social and environmental responsibility thereby emerged as a four-handed approach whether the role of the invisible hand of market mechanisms and the visible hand of institutions is complemented by the third hand of corporate responsibility and the fourth hand of active citizenship that votes with the wallet. In this part of the course we examine some methodological aspects, empirical findings and policy implications of research on corporate social responsibility. Please keep an eye on our web page dedicated to courses which will be updated soon to reflect the range of courses available during the 2021-2022 academic year: https://economia.uniroma2.it/master-science/eebl/courses/ Best regards, Program Office MSc European Economy and Business Law Tor Vergata University of Rome Department of Economics and Finance Master of Science Program Office Via Columbia 2, 00133 Rome, Italy |
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