The School of Economics and Business offers studies in the fields of economics and business economics, organization and management, social science and philosophy. The Master’s degree programme in Economics and the PhD programmes are taught in English.
Stein Holden is co-author of the new book "Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa".
UMB School of Economics and Business will host a PhD course in Experimental Economics from February 25. 2013 to March 1. 2013.
Stein Holden presented the paper "Generosity and social distance in dictator game field experiments with and without a face" at the Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Association of Economists.
John Herbert Ainembabazi has through his PhD work looked at how different policy designs effects economic development, poverty reduction and management of natural resources in Uganda.
Fish production and productivity have increased in Bangladesh, but there are still challenges connected to risk, training, farm size and prospective profit. Akhtaruzzaman Khan has looked at these challenges through five independent papers.
Teaching staff from the American University of Central Asia are now visiting School of Economics and Business and UMB in general as part of a 3-year cooperation project funded by Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU).