Courses taught:

Cultural Context for Economy and Business (2023-...)
The course focuses on culture as a pattern of values, attitudes, beliefs and norms that distinguishes one group of people from another. Different approaches to culture (including Hofstede, Inglehart, Schwartz) and the dimensions most commonly used to describe culture will be introduced. The course provides an overview of how to measure culture and what databases are used for this purpose. The impact of culture on various economic and business phenomena (e.g. entrepreneurship, innovation, corruption, but also communication style, expectations, cooperation, success of new solutions) will be introduced on a scientific basis.

Mathematical Methods in Economics (2002-...)
This course, taught initially in Estonian to Master's students and since 2005 to Doctoral students, was developed to an in-depth course for the Master's students of Quantitative Economics (curriculum taught in English) in 2014. The course advances student's knowledge about different mathematical methods and skills to apply those methods creatively, illustrating the methods with the help of examples from economics. The course introduces both simple and more complex mathematical methods (differentiating, integrating, optimizing, matrix algebra, difference equations, differential equations, phase diagrams; statics, comparative statics, dynamics).

Applications of Higher Mathematics in Economics (1998-...)
The course introduces mathematical methods used in Economics and needed for understanding Economics textbooks and scientific articles. Methods covered are: differentiation, integration, optimisation, matrix algebra, difference and differential equations. Mathematical methods discussed are illustrated with the examples from Economics. The course is taught currently for first-year Bachelor-level economics students, who have passed the course of Higher Mathematics. The course has been taught also to students with no previous knowledge of Higher Mathematics both in Estonian an in English.

The course topics are covered also in the following textbook:
Kaasa, A. (2002) Majandusteaduse matemaatilised alused. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Microeconomics (2002-2018)
The aim of microeconomics courses is to give an outline of Microeconomics. The main topics are the behaviour of households and firms in the market, market equilibrium, market failures, and general equilibrium. Different courses have been taught to the students of the School of Economics and International Business (more thorough) and students from other institutes (more general).

Course-related topics are covered by the first chapters of the following textbook:
Eamets, R.; Kaasa, A.; Kaldaru, H.; Parts, E.; Trasberg, V. (2005) Sissejuhatus majandusteooriasse. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

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