Before you arrive

Before you Start

Before you start at Warwick, there are a few steps that you should complete to ensure your transition into the Department is as smooth and enjoyable as possible.

Enrolment

You will receive an email from the Enrolment Team around 4–6 weeks before your course starts, or within a few days of accepting your unconditional offer if this is later. This email will invite you to complete your online enrolment. Please wait for this email before starting Course Registration.

After you complete online enrolment, you will get a follow-up email either confirming that your enrolment is complete or outlining any further steps you need to take.

ID Cards

Your Warwick ID Card will be issued on arrival at Warwick. If you have on-campus accommodation then your ID card will be paired with your on-campus room keys. If you have off-campus accommodation then your ID card can be collected from Rootes during the enrolment event. Find out more about Warwick ID Card Collection.

IT Preparation

We would like to encourage you to look at the IT guides for using academic technology before starting your course.

Student Bank Details

All new students will need to enter their UK bank account details online to receive their monthly stipend. Students need to be enrolled before they can upload their bank account information. Please also see this webpage for separate information regarding opening a UK bank account from abroad. Please click here for guidance to update your bank details once you have enrolled online.

Course Preparation

Before you arrive at Warwick you may be interested in looking over some of the material which will be taught in the core modules in year one of the programme. An illustrative bibliography for each of the three core modules studied in year one is given below.

You may find this useful in preparation for the start of your programme:

EC9A1 Advanced Microeconomic Analysis
G.A. Jehle and P.J.Reny, Advanced Microeconomic Theory, Prentice Hall, 2011 A. Mas-Colell, M.D. Whinston, J.R. Green, Micro-Economic Theory, Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 D.Fudenberg, J. Tirole, Game Theory, MIT Press, 1991 T. Bewley, General Equilibrium, Overlapping Generations Models and Optimal Economic Growth, Harvard University Press, 2007 S. Tadelis, Game Theory: An Introduction, Princeton University Press, 2013 David Kreps, Microeconomic Foundations volumes I and II

EC9A2 Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis
T. F. Bewley, General Equilibrium, Overalapping Generations Models and Optimal Growth Theory, Harvard Un. Press, 2009. Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, Fourth Edition, 9780262038669, Published: September 11, 2018, Publisher: The MIT Press. [ Chapters 1-2-3-4-7-8-10-12-17-18] Dixit, Robert K. and Robert S. Pindyck (1994). Investment under Uncertainty Advanced Macroeconomics, Fifth Edition, by David Romer [chapters 5 and 8] Adda and Cooper (2003), Dynamic Economics, MIT Press [Chapter 2] Christopher Pissarides (2000). Equilibrium Unemployment Theory, 2nd edition. Cambridge: MIT Press (chapters 1 and 2) D. N. Weil, Economic Growth, Pearson, 2004 E. Helpman, The Mystery of Economic Growth, Harvard University Press, 2010

EC9A3 Advanced Econometric Theory
Term 1: Bierens. Introduction to the Mathematical and Statistical Foundations of Econometrics. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Capinski and E. Kopp. Measure, Integral and Probability. Springer, 2005. Casella and R.L. Berger. Statistical Inference. Duxbury, 2002. Gourieroux and A. Monfort. Statistics and Econometric Models. Cambridge University Press, Vol 1 and 2, 2008. Hong. Probability and Statistics for Economists. World Scientific, 2018. Jacod and P. Protter. Probability Essentials. Springer, 2004. Li and G.J. Babu. A Graduate Course on Statistical Inference. Springer, 2019. Stachurski. A Primer in Econometric Theory. MIT Press, 2016. Term 2: Brockwell and R. Davis. Time Series: Theory and Methods. Springer, 1991. Hamilton: Time Series Analysis. Princeton University Press, 1994. Lutkepohl: New Introduction to Multiple Time Series Analysis. Springer, 2005. A.W. van der Vaart: Time Series, Lecture Notes, pdf online. F. Hayashi. Econometrics. Princeton University Press, 2000. J. M. Wooldridge. Econometric analysis of cross section and panel data. MIT press, 2010. B.H. Baltagi. Econometric analysis of panel data. John Wiley & Sons, 2005. M. Arellano. Panel Data Econometrics, Advanced Texts in Econometrics. Oxford University Press, 2003. G. W. Imbens and D. B. Rubin. Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences. Cambridge University Press, 2015. J. D. Angrist and J-S. Pischke. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion. Princeton University Press, 2009. M. A. Hernán and J. M. Robins. Causal Inference: What If. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2020. Cattaneo, Idrobo, and Titiunik. A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Foundations. Cambridge University Press, 2019

International Student Success

All new international students are encouraged to complete this "International Student Success" online course before travelling to the UK. We recommend that you complete the course in August.