Bachelor in Quantitative Economics

What will I learn?

Lecturers

Eglė Jakučionytė (PhD University of Amsterdam), lecturer at Vilnius University and a senior economist at the Bank of Lithuania.
Finance II

“The Global Financial Crisis presented new challenges to policymakers and in this way changed the landscape of economic research. Therefore, besides introducing students to key financial and monetary concepts, Finance II will use the recent experience of financial markets and banking sectors to provide students contextual and up to date knowledge. The course will put emphasis on the nature of financial crises and how it relates to asymmetric information problems. Also the course spans topics crucial to understanding financial structures such as banking, financial regulation and monetary policy.”

Marius Jurgilas (PhD University of Connecticut), Member of the Board (Bank of Lithuania) 
Applied Macroeconomics

“Thorough knowledge of applied macroeconomics is of utmost importance for an economist, independent of whether she wants to work in academia, the public sector, or the industry. In Applied Macroeconomics students will learn how to analyse important policy issues with their rigorous training in macroeconomic theory, which will prepare them for possible future work in policy-related areas.”

Povilas Lastauskas (PhD University of Cambridge), Director of the Center for Excellence in Finance and Economic Research (Bank of Lithuania)
Statistical Theory and Econometric Theory and Practice

“Statistics and econometrics are at the core of modern economics. In the age of information flows, skills in teasing out meaningful stories and insights from complex datasets are invaluable to businesses, governments and research institutions. Going beyond a cookbook approach when tools and techniques are taught independently of contextual information, merely focusing on methodology but not on data generating processes, in contrast, my objective will be to share with students how to combine rigor with the ability to see real people, their decisions and economic processes that give rise to data at hand.”

Linas Tarasonis (PhD Paris School of Economics), Vice Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Vilnius University)
Economic Principles I and Labor Economics

“I am excited this programme is going to be the first in the Baltic region to offer a course on Economic Principles based on the CORE project. The CORE curriculum is a vast improvement over existing textbooks: the approach, based on relevant real-world examples and a state-of-the-art combination of theoretical models and elements of empirical analysis, is truly engaging for students.”

Career opportunities

Testimonials

We are after graduates with rigorous quantitative skills, economic intuition, and capacity to distill complex economic ideas into simple words.

Dr Vitas Vasiliauskas, Chairman of the Board (Bank of Lithuania)

For several years now the Bank of Lithuania participates in the joint policy decision making of the Eurosystem. At the round table discussions it is the best and most convincing economic arguments that define the monetary stance of the Eurosystem, regulatory interventions and the design of the future Eurozone. Thus, the Bank of Lithuania needs University graduates with broad, rigorous and up-to-date training in economics.

Marius Jurgilas, Member of the Board (Bank of Lithuania)

Successful navigation within the financial services industry that has been rapidly changing due to financial technologies requires abstract thinking including understanding of economic and finance theories, problem solving and IT skills, and good intuition – all the competences to be nurtured within the BSc in Quantitative Economics programme.

Sigitas Mitkus, Director of the Financial Markets Policy Department (Ministry of Financeof the Republic of Lithuania)