Your repository of seven intriguing short-term courses on economics and public policy making.

Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis
Learn how to model social and economic networks and their impact on human behaviour. How do networks come into existence, why do they exhibit certain patterns, and how does their structure impact diffusion and learning? Bringing together models and techniques from economics, sociology, mathematics, physics, statistics and computer science, this course from Stanford Online, Stanford University's online initiative, answers all these questions. Where www.edx.org Duration Nine weeks Cost Free

Introduction to Managerial Economics
This Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) course is an introduction to microeconomics and its impact on managerial decision-making process in today's business world. It covers aspects of supply, demand and market equilibrium along with production and different types of costs. It takes you into the deep-set problems of markets in India and deliberates solutions. Where www.edx.org Duration Six weeks Cost Free

Macroeconomic Forecasting
This course from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), teaches you how to create and assess forecasting models to predict macroeconomic variables such as inflation and economic growth. You will not only learn properties of time series data and model design but also the use of vector auto-regression models and error correction. Where www.edx.org Duration Eight weeks Cost Free

Understanding Economic Policymaking
The course from IE Business School, Spain, will employ a non-technical approach to analyse how governments use policy to influence a country's economy. It will enable you to discuss national debts and deficits, examine fiscal and monetary policy and their appropriateness to the situation. A good hold on these concepts will give you the tools to develop your own position in current economic debates, such as fiscal stimulus vs. austerity, the merits of quantitative easing, the need for higher interest rates and the future growth path of many modern economies. Where www.coursera.org Duration Self-paced Cost Free

Economies of Transition and Emerging Markets
An overview of economic and political challenges related to transition from the centrally planned economy to market system, history of market reforms in Central and Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union, Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America and the contemporary role of emerging market economies is what this course from the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Russia will touch upon. Where www.coursera.org Duration Six weeks Cost Free

Foundations of Development Policy: Advanced Development Economics
This Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) course is for those with a more social bent of mind. It uses economic theory and data analysis to explore the economic lives of the poor and ways to design and implement effective development policy. It covers research in development across a range of topics, building economic models, conducting randomised control trials and data management using the software. Where www.edx.org Duration 12 weeks Cost Free

Debt Sustainability Analysis
This course from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is an attempt to understand debt management. What are the tools to assess debt sustainability and how can countries manage sovereign debt? This course combines theory with hands-on exercises and teaches you how to develop a debt management strategy under uncertainty. Where www.edx.org Duration Six weeks Cost Free (Although these courses are open to all levels, a background in statistics and economics is assumed)