e-Economy - Digital Economy 2400-PLSM119A
e-Economy is a real challenge for economists nowadays. Despite the significant impact on the modern functioning of the economy, the "digital economy" is still a marginal area of economic research. The very term "digital economy" has not been precisely defined by economics. Also, there is no developed approach in measuring the size of this sector. We intuitively know that digitization does not concern ICT itself. Its measure cannot be the availability of the Internet itself or the size and flows of the ICT sector separated on the basis of the PKD / NACE classification. Conventional methods of researching the digital economy fail because digitization and diffusion of ICT are processes that go largely across traditional sectoral divisions of economic activity.
The Internet is a giant collection of dispersed sources of information about the economic activity of enterprises, an important part of which is generated by the companies themselves in the form of (millions) of 'digital footprints’. The course is designed to address these new challenges, explore the potential of this type of data for economic analysis, and to develop a new approach using innovative BigData tools, allowing to examine the actual size and importance of the digital economy.
Course will prepare students for writing a thesis. The program of classes is divided into 3 semesters of cooperation with students for a total period of 1.5 years.
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Learning outcomes
Student is able to use theoretical knowledge to the processes taking place in global economy, is able to analyze macroeconomic phenomena and critically choose data and methods for analyzing the problems of the global economy
Student is able to properly analyze the causes and course of processes and phenomena in the global economy as well as in Poland itself
Student is able to model complex macroeconomic processes
Student has an in-depth ability to prepare a master's thesis
KW01, KW02, KW03, KU01, KU02, KU03, KK01, KK02, KK03
Assessment criteria
The condition for passing is effective participation in classes. The final result - which is writing a master thesis, depends largely on students' motivation. We do not require writing a thesis in order to pass the seminar, but we require a systematic participation in meetings and cooperation at subsequent stages of analysis development. We assume that within the first semester, the student, in cooperation with us, will learn the tools and methods of strategic analysis. The second semester should be devoted to defining main problems (research theses) and finding data allowing verification of these theses. The third semester is the work on completing the thesis.
Bibliography
WB, 2018, The Future of Jobs Report http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_2018.pdf
EIB Investment Report 2018/2019: Retooling Europe’s economy https://www.eib.org/attachments/efs/economic_investment_report_2018_en.pdf
Brynjolfsson E., McAfee A., The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in Time of Brilliant Technologies, W. W. Norton, New York – London 2014.
OECD, The Future of Education and Skills. Education 2030, OECD 2018, https://www.oecd.org/education/2030/E2030%20Position%20Paper%20.pdf
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