Become an Economist
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn how to collect and analyze financial information to evaluate economic conditions. The role of the economist is vital to helping businesses make decisions by understanding the current, and potential, economic environment.
- Discover how the economy works and which factors influence it.
- Analyze financial data to determine how it may impact an organization.
- Evaluate how economic models could influence business decisions.
Syllabus
Courses under this program:
Course 1: Managerial Economics
-Learn how to use economics to make better business decisions. Explore economic theories to strategize and solve business problems from demand and competition to pricing products.
Course 2: Economics for Everyone: Understanding a Recession
-Learn how recessions impact industries, jobs, investments, and companies. Find out what can be done when economic downturns impact workers, consumers, financial markets, and more.
Course 3: Economic Indicators
-Learn how to find and interpret data about key economic indicators, such as unemployment, GDP, and home sales, in order to make better professional and financial decisions.
Course 4: The Data Science of Economics, Banking, and Finance, with Barton Poulson
-Find out how data science is changing economics, banking, and finance: everything from how stocks are traded to how loans are approved.
Course 5: Excel: Economic Analysis and Data Analytics
-Use big data to forecast economic trends. Find out how to perform regression analysis for economic forecasting using Microsoft Excel.
Course 6: Finance Foundations: Risk Management
-Prepare for the worst before things go bad. Learn the foundations of financial risk management, including identifying, measuring, owning, addressing, and monitoring risk.
Course 1: Managerial Economics
-Learn how to use economics to make better business decisions. Explore economic theories to strategize and solve business problems from demand and competition to pricing products.
Course 2: Economics for Everyone: Understanding a Recession
-Learn how recessions impact industries, jobs, investments, and companies. Find out what can be done when economic downturns impact workers, consumers, financial markets, and more.
Course 3: Economic Indicators
-Learn how to find and interpret data about key economic indicators, such as unemployment, GDP, and home sales, in order to make better professional and financial decisions.
Course 4: The Data Science of Economics, Banking, and Finance, with Barton Poulson
-Find out how data science is changing economics, banking, and finance: everything from how stocks are traded to how loans are approved.
Course 5: Excel: Economic Analysis and Data Analytics
-Use big data to forecast economic trends. Find out how to perform regression analysis for economic forecasting using Microsoft Excel.
Course 6: Finance Foundations: Risk Management
-Prepare for the worst before things go bad. Learn the foundations of financial risk management, including identifying, measuring, owning, addressing, and monitoring risk.
Courses
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Find out how to use big data to perform regression analysis for economic forecasting in Microsoft Excel.
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Learn how to use economics to make better business decisions. Explore economic theories to strategize and solve business problems from demand and competition to pricing products.
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Learn how recessions impact industries, jobs, investments, and companies. Find out what can be done when economic downturns impact workers, consumers, financial markets, and more.
-
Prepare for the worst before things go bad. Learn the foundations of financial risk management, including identifying, measuring, owning, addressing, and monitoring risk.
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Find out how data science is changing economics, banking, and finance: everything from how stocks are traded to how loans are approved.
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Learn how to find and interpret data about key economic indicators, such as unemployment, GDP, and home sales, in order to make better professional and financial decisions.
Taught by
Stefan Michel, Jason Schenker, Barton Poulson and Michael M.
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