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[ 162UNTRENTK23 ] KS Economics for transformation

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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
3 ECTS B2 - Bachelor's programme 2. year (*)Transformation Studies - Art x Science Rudolf Winter-Ebmer 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Original study plan Bachelor's programme Transformation Studies. Art x Science 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
Students are able to assess the effectiveness, feasibility, and unintended consequences of economic interventions. Students are trained to identify market failures and to apply economic reasoning to real-world problems, including policy evaluation, sustainability, and resource allocations. Understanding how economic incentives and trade-offs shape individual and collective choices in market-driven or policy driven transformations.
Skills Knowledge
Students are able to identify economic inefficiencies and to propose strategic solutions in market policies, taxation, and regulation​. They can assess how incentives and market structures influence behavior in various economic contexts. Understanding how limited resources require choices between competing uses. They understand how changes in technology, preferences, and socio economic characteristics affect the markets. Students explore how sustainability policies, (e.g. carbon pricing and green energy transitions) contribute to economic transformation.
Criteria for evaluation Exam
Methods lecture
Language English
Study material not available yet
Changing subject? No
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 100
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority