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One of these papers is here: http://www.ires.ucl.ac.be/DP/IRES_DP/2005-41.pdf

That´s because there is none. If you want to get a decent degree, forget this country.

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Just a few notes. 1) If you spend the first semester at UAB (which you can) you will take the first-year first-semester courses of the IDEA programme (Master), whatever the web page says. At least this is how it works right now. 2) scholarship: I just skimmed through the web, but it seems to me that if you come from the US (which I guess you do, I dunno) you get no funding whatsoever; you only can apply for a loan (erasmus mundus). If I am right, scholarship is generous for people from poorer countries (~Erasmus Mundus), but Europeans from EU/EFTA countries can get just regular Erasmus scholarship, which is about 300-400 euros/month. 3) from what I heard, management is quite awful. They fail to respond to emails, secretary on the phone just tells you (in French) that she can´t speak English (which is absurd) and so on. But in the end it works somehow. Check their websites. At least UAB publishes all of these info there.

(CEMFI, Carlos III, UPF, UAB) False, UPF Econ Master is a one-year programme.

What schools in particular are you talking about? There is a bunch of them which provide you with fairly good scholarship during the MA stage (ok, this usually forms a part of PhD programme in which you are supposed to continue on that respective school, but perhaps it might be a question of prestige for them as well to send their MAs for a PhD to some of the TopXX US places) and I wouldn´t say these programmes are extra tough to get in.

to wonderful&TruDog: Ok, thanks. It must be somewhat depressing experience for that portion of a class which has not seen the material before, but, gee, honor to whom honor is due.

Yes, with your profile it seems really foolish to aim so high.

What´s the point of taking classes where stuff such as Greene and MWG is used before entering PhD (ok, apart from signalling that you can cope with it appropriately)? Isn´t it just what is covered in the first grad year, so you only bother with that twice?

Perhaps this is a silly question, but can someone explain me why so much stress during the PhD econ admission process is put on whether the applicants can deal with elementary/high school math? I simply cannot imagine someone who has severe problems with such stuff and still aims for econ PhD; self-selection should work here pretty well and the test, more than an indicator of the applicant´s quantitative abilities, becomes a pain in the @ss. Does it have to do something with the American educational system, for instance? (I´m not from the US, I should say)

I spent some time with both of them and I´d say that you can´t go wrong by choosing either one. I myself would pick Gujarati (I really don´t know how guys here came to hate it), as Wooldridge is perhaps too elementary (uses too little math/stat in explaining the concepts which might make them to be understood too little) and somewhat less structured. Some advanced topics (such as the panel data mentioned above) might be covered better in Wooldridge (I only studied classical linear regression model from these books, so I don´t know), on the other hand I guess your test will be more focused on basics. If you can, get both of them or at least have a look at them and then choose one according to your liking. In the end, my opinion is that it never hurts to study from 2-3 textbooks at once (given that you have enough time), as exposure to various explanations of the same topic usually makes you understand that topic better.

Hi, are you going to post that thread? I´ve been looking forward to it for a week now :grad:

"Candidates without the GRE (point 5 above) test results will still be considered in the application pool, but the chances of admission strongly depend on performance in the GRE tests." ADMISSION CRITERIA - Universita' Bocconi

Europe: Barcelona GSE (~ UPF MSc.), UAB, U Carlos III, EUI, Bocconi... just to name a few. Guess you have an access to the internet, so you can easily find some more by yourself. They usually strongly suggest that you provide GRE results but I dare doubt they really play a significant role in the admission process.

Sometimes this forum is funny.