The Graduate Program at EIEF focused on four fields: Applied Microeconomics, Econometrics, Finance, and Macroeconomics. It consisted of courses and reading groups taught by EIEF faculty, topics courses and special lectures taught by EIEF visitors and the weekly seminars. The program was organized into two terms: fall and spring each consisting of 15 weeks divided into two modules, separated by a mid-term break of one week. All the courses were followed by a final exam. To avoid excessive burden, students were encouraged not to take more than 12 hours of taught courses each week.
Most of the courses taught consisted of 30 hours of lectures each. Other topics courses and reading groups usually consisted of about 10 hours each, while special lectures did not have a fixed format. The students were required two attend the two regular weekly seminars at EIEF, one in Macro/Theory and one in Applied/Empirical Economics.
In the Academic Year 2017-18 EIEF offered courses in: Asset Pricing, International Macro, Topics in Macroeconometrics, Topics in Entrepreneurial Finance, Models with Heterogeneous Agents, Experimental Economics, Topics in VAR Modeling, Monetary Economics, Policy Evaluation, Firm Dynamics, Household Finance, Econometric Theory, Empirical Banking, Methods in Continuous Time, Finance, History of Macroeconomics.
