The University of Uruguay, founded in 1838, is the only public University and the largest in the country. At present it consists of twenty Faculties and teaching institutes.
Department of economics (dECON) is one of the units in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Also, the Faculty contains the Departments of Sociology, Political Science, Social Work and a unit for Multi-Disciplinary Studies.
The dECON is in charge of the research and teaching of economics at the Faculty of Social Sciences. At an undergraduate level the dECON is responsible for the Economics courses in the following grades: Sociology, Political Science and Social Work. At a postgraduate level, the dECON offers a Master Program in International Economics and a series of Diplomas and Certificates, as well as the 'Economics Diploma for non economists' and its different Certificates in Economics.
The research activities at the dECON are organized in nine areas according to the major traditional divisions in Economics as well as the relevant topics in the Uruguayan's political and economical agenda. The main areas are: International Trade, Econometrics, Industrial Organization, Economics Regulation, Topics of Microeconomics, Productive Internationalization, Macroeconomics and Finance and Labor Economics.
Contact Persons:
Departments of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Uruguay
Jose E. Rodō 1854
Montevideo
Uruguay
Tel: +598 2 409 2973/+598 2 401 7707 - Fax: +598 2 4081917
The Institute of Statistics (IEsta) of the Faculty of Economics and Administration. IEsta activities include teaching and research in Statistics in the fields of Economics, BioStatistics, Actuarial, and Social Sciences in general.
The IEsta has been involved in research and has developed Simulation Models for several Public and Private Institutions. The models take into account historical data and forecasts of Macroeconomics variables to predict financial, stocks and, in general, quantitative variables.
IEsta areas of study are Multivariate Analysis, Time Series, Bayesian Analysis, Sampling, Computational Statistics, Biometry, Actuarial Science, Education Statistics, Financial Statistics.
Contact Persons:
Institute of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Uruguay
Eduardo Acevedo 1139
Montevideo
URUGUAY
Tel: +598 2 4101784/+598 2 4102564 - Fax: +598 2 4104634