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Department of Economics

Before you arrive

Before you arrive at Warwick, there are a few steps that you are required to complete to ensure a smooth and enjoyable transition.

Conditional Offers

If your offer of a place in the Department of Economics was conditional, please ensure that you supply all the necessary paperwork to the Admissions Team as soon as possible, and before you arrive, to ensure your offer is unconditional.

Find out further information on meeting the conditions of your offer.

Online Enrolment

You will receive an email from the enrolment team 4-6 weeks before your course start date, or within a few days of you accepting your unconditional offer if this is later, asking you complete online enrolment. Please do not try to complete Course Registration until you have received this email. It is very important that you follow all of the steps outlined in the email prior to the start of the pre-sessional course on 19th September.

Once you have completed online enrolment you will receive an email with instructions of any further actions required before your enrolment can be completed or to simply confirm your enrolment has been completed. Only students whose Biometric Residence Permit (BRP card) will be received by Warwick under the Alterative Collection Location (ACL) provision will need to attend in-person to collect their BRP. Find out more about In-Person Right to Study Check.

IT Preparation

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

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

EC9A2 Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis

EC9A3 Advanced Econometric Theory
  • T. Amemiya. Advanced econometrics. Harvard university press, 1985.
  • J. D. Angrist and J.-S. Pischke. Mostly harmless econometrics: An empiricist's companion. Prince-
    ton university press, 2008.
  • P. Billingsley. Convergence of probability measures. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
  • G. Casella and R. L. Berger. Statistical inference, volume 2. Duxbury Paci c Grove, CA, 2002.
  • R. Durrett. Probability: Theory and examples cambridge university press, 2010.
  • F. Hayashi. Econometrics. Princeton University Press, 2000.
  • S. I. Resnick. A probability path. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013.
  • J. M. Wooldridge. Econometric analysis of cross section and panel data. MIT press, 2010.
  • 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.
  • Baltagi. Econometric analysis of panel data. John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
  • Gourieroux and A. Monfort. Statistics and Econometric Models. Cambridge University Press, Vol 1 and 2, 2008.