GBE provides students with an understanding of how key economic, institutional and political factors affect the global business environment. The course develops critical-thinking, reading and research skills with recourse to essay-writing and the discussion of topical readings. Main topics covered include: Global Institutions & Relations, Trade & Investment, Money & Exchange Rates, Political Economy and also Culture.
- Teacher: Luis Brites Pereira
- Teacher: Thomas Baier
- Teacher: Joana Mendonça de Matos
- Teacher: Thomas Baier
- Teacher: Joana Mendonça de Matos
In this course students are expected to learn to define and explain the behaviour of the main macroeconomic variables and understand the central effects of macroeconomic policy, both in the short and in the long run. Students are also expected to become familiar with fundamental data on the portuguese and euro area economies.
Nesta cadeira espera-se que os alunos aprendam a definir e explicar o comportamento das principais variáveis macroeconómicas e compreendam os principais efeitos da política macroeconómica, no curto e no longo prazo. Devem também ficar a conhecer os dados fundamentais da economia portuguesa e da área do euro.
- Teacher: José Miguel Cardoso da Costa
- Teacher: Sharmin Sazedi
The main purpose of the course is to provide more advanced tools for microeconomic analysis, including general equilibrium and welfare analysis, the identification of market failure and possible policy solutions, modeling strategic interaction and choice under uncertainty, and applying these tools to situations of asymmetric information.
- Teacher: Paulo Pamplona Corte-Real
[PT] Ao completar a disciplina de Contabilidade Financeira, os alunos deverão estar familiarizados com o vocabulário contabilístico-financeiro, compreender a técnica contabilística, saber elaborar e ler as demonstrações financeiras das empresas e conhecer o essencial das normas de contabilidade.
[EN] After taking the Financial Accounting course, students will be familiarized with the accounting and financial vocabulary, understand the accounting techniques, be able to prepare and analyse financial statements, and understand the main accounting standards.
- Teacher: Facundo Mercado
Operations Management is a major driver of profitability and growth. It deals with the design and management of products and services, processes and supply chains. And the acquisition, development and utilisation of the resources that a company needs to deliver the products and services their clients want. This course looks at the key decisions that companies need to make in operations management, specifically learning concepts, tools and best practices. Namely, the course of Operations Management is dedicated to:
- Analyse, develop and apply the main management topics of a course in Operations Management.
- Apply the main tools of OM at the (a) strategic level, (b) analysis and design levels; (c) development, plan and control levels; (d) improvement level.
- Teacher: Ana Sofia M P P Costa
Este curso permite aos alunos o desenvolvimento de ferramentas essenciais de Cálculo Diferencial e Integral em ℝn. Este conhecimento é particularmente importante no estudo e compreensão de modelos matemáticos usados nas áreas de Economia e Gestão.
This course allows the students to develop essential tools of Differential and Integral Calculus in ℝn. This knowledge is particularly useful in the study and formulation of mathematical models used in the fields of Business and Economics studies.
- Teacher: Thomas Baier
- Teacher: Joana Mendonça de Matos
Statistics for Economics and Management
- Teacher: Luis Catela Nunes