Courses

Courses

The courses that may be offered in English are listed below. Please note that the list is subject to change. It is important to check which courses are actually available in the semester of your application.
For students wishing to enroll in core (mandatory) courses — whether in Portuguese or in English — registration is subject to prior approval by the program coordinator.

Undergraduate courses

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Spring Term, 2025:
Microeconomics I 60 hours
Principles of Corporate Finance for Utilities 60 hours
Competition Policy Economics 60 hours
Labor Economics 60 hours
Applied Microeconomics 60 hours

FGV EPGE exchange students can enroll in EPGE’s graduate level (professional and academic courses) and in other FGV courses, such as Law, Business, Digital Communication. The offer of these courses must be checked every semester. If it is of interest to the student, he or she must communicate it to the International Office, so that we can check availability and offer.

Graduate courses

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1st Quarter, 2025
Topics in Games with Asymmetric Information 40 hours
Political Economy 40 hours
Economic Geography 20 hours
Monetary and Fiscal Topics 40 hours
Economic Development I 40 hours
Environmental and Urban Economics 40 hours
Contract Theory 20 hours
Some Economics of Global Warming (A Economia do Aquecimento Global) 10 hours
Topics in Applied Microeconomics 20 hours
Numerical Methods 40 hours
2nd Quarter, 2025
Economic Development II 40 hours
Macroeconometrics 40 hours
Econometrics of networks 40 hours
Macrofinance 40 hours
Topics in Labor and Demographic Economics 40 hours
Credit Markets 40 hours
Empirical Microecometrics 40 hours
Dynamic Methods for Economics and Finance 40 hours
Labor Economics 40 hours
International Trade Policy 10 hours
Industrial Organization I 40 hours
3rd Quarter, 2025
Introduction to Measure Theory 40 hours
Introduction to Auction Theory 40 hours
Applied Microeconometrics 40 hours
Microeconometrics 40 hours
Applied econometrics: international trade and investment 40 hours
Short run Macroeconomics 20 hours
Money and Banking Mechanisms 40 hours
4th Quarter, 2025
The Empirical Content of Economic Theories 20 hours
Professional Graduate Courses

To access the full curriculum, click here. In this program, courses are offered in Portuguese.

Courses in Other FGV Programs

FGV EPGE exchange students can enroll in EPGE’s graduate level (professional and academic courses) and in other FGV courses, such as Law, Business, Digital Communication. The offer of these courses must be checked every semester. If it is of interest to the student, he or she must communicate it to the International Office, so that we can check availability and offer.

Credit System

FGV does not work with the ECTS system, but rather with hour credits. The courses offered by FGV EPGE usually have a load of 60h (approximately 5 to 6 ECTS) or 30h (approximately 3 to 4 ECTS). Students are graded on a scale from 0 (minimum) to 10 (maximum). The passing grade is 6 (six).

For more information about credit equivalence or classification, do not hesitate to contact us by email.