Quantitative Methods in Economics – (Ph.D.)

Econometrics and Operational ResearchStudy branch of Econometrics and Operational Research is aimed at education of professionals in the sphere of the development of theory and applications of optimization models, econometric modeling and forecasting, mathematical economics, optimal directing and simulation models. The goal of the branch is to train economically educated graduates who can develop and apply methods and models of operational research in tasks of mathematical programming, theory of games, network analysis, multicriteria decision making, theory of inventories and queuing as well as econometric models in microeconomic and macroeconomic analyses.StatisticsThe main goal of Statistics branch at doctoral study is the education of top-ranking researchers and specialists with profound statistics education and knowledge of foreign and domestic literature, able to participate in valuable applications at solving important macroeconomic, banking, firms´ and other problems. Graduates should assert themselves not only within public statistics service, but also as qualified experts desired by all institutions requiring not only professional knowledge of statistics and exact way of thinking but also the ability to formulate more complex tasks, perfect knowledge of work with statistics computer products and economic knowledge.