The program is structured into four research lines:

1. Tourism Economics
2. Environmental Economics
3. Welfare Economics
4. Econometrics

The PhD programme in applied economics aims to train students to be able to complete original research that makes a relevant contribution to the discipline and decision-making processes amongst economic and social agents.

The research will lead to a doctoral thesis which implicitly requires students to develop the following abilities:

1. A mastery of the most advanced quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques
2. Collaboration with researchers from other institutions: undertaking monographic courses, international stays, participation in seminars...
3. Explaining results scientifically at international conferences
4. Publishing in high-impact journals in accordance with the canons in the discipline.

Core Skills

• CB11 - Systematic comprehension of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to this field
• CB12 - The ability to devise, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or invention process
• CB13 - The ability to contribute to widening the frontiers of knowledge through original research
• CB14 - The ability to perform a critical analysis, assessment and synthesis of new and complex ideas
• CB15 - The ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community, as well as with society as a whole, about their areas of knowledge in the methods and languages commonly used within the international scientific community
• CB16 - The ability to promote scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advancement in academic and professional settings within the knowledge-based society.

Personal Skills and Abilities

• CA01 - Work in contexts where there is little specific information
• CA02 - Uncover key questions that need to be answered in order to resolve a complex problem
• CA03 - Design, create, develop and undertake new and innovative projects in their area of knowledge
• CA04 - Work in a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary setting
• CA05 - Incorporate knowledge, handle complexity and provide opinions with limited information
• CA06 - Intellectual criticism and defence of solutions.

Other Skills

• OC01 - Knowing how to describe economic phenomena by using mathematics, formulating models and theories, and assessing their margin of error
• OC02 - Having the ability to acquire and interpret economic data that enable hypotheses to be formulated to contrast theories. Knowing how to quantify the margin of error for the data sets
• OC03 - Having skills with computational tools that are essential in the field of economics for calculation, simulation and/or modelling of data and economic phenomena.

The recommended entry profile is that of graduates or graduates who are in any of the situations referred to in Article 6 and the second additional provision of Royal Decree 99/2011 of January 28 which have skills and knowledge in one of the main research lines involved in the PhD program:

• Tourism Economics
• Environmental Economics
• Welfare Economics
• Econometrics

The final admission of PhD students will be carried out by the academic committee of the doctoral program. In case the number of students who are pre-registered is greater than the number of students who can be admitted to the PhD program, the following criteria will be applied//ADMISSION WILL BE BASED ON CONSIDERATION OF:

• Undergraduate cumulative grade point average (from 0 to 2.5 points)
• Post Graduate cumulative grade point average of at least 7 (from 0 to 4 points).
• Previous work experience of students being related to the research lines involved in the PhD program (from 0 to 3 points, with 0-1 points resulting from this experience and 0-2 points resulting from a personal interview).
• Letters of recommendation (from 0 to 0.5 points, with 0.25 points per letter).

Supervision and monitoring of doctorand training activities and their PhD theses shall be in line with the UIB procedures for PhDs (RD 99/2011), the UIB Doctoral Degree Regulations (https://seu.uib.cat/fou/acord/13084/) and the verified degree report that you may consult on the "Results" webpage. The administrative and academic procedures that students must perform during their PhD may be viewed on the "Procedures" section of the UIB Doctoral School website:

• Thesis Charter and Code of Best Practice
• Research Plan and Record of activities
• Initial review and annual reviews
• PhD Training Activities
• Thesis Deposit and Viva
• Distinctions for PhD degrees

Services and infrastructure

The UIB has the appropriate computer and bibliographic infrastructures and resources for the development of the Doctorate program in Applied Economics (TECA) under ideal conditions. Although the doctoral students of the program can access all the infrastructure of the Campus, they routinely use the facilities of the Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos building. These include:

• Room SB01 located on the ground floor of block B (Economics) for master and doctorate students from the Departments of Applied Economics and Economics and Business. The room is multi-purposely configured as a work and meeting room with mobile furniture for up to 30 people, 15 computers, white board for markers and wireless connection.
• Rooms SB03-SB06 available for conducting seminars and training activities. These rooms have mobile furniture for up to 30 people, a computer and a video projector, a white board for markers and wireless connection.
• AI01-AI06 computer rooms equipped with 29 computers (except AI01 that has 56 computers) HP DC5700 Intel Pentium Dual Core / 1.8GHz / 1GB and virtual desktops that allow student access to various programs and packages statistics (https://www.cti.uib.cat/Servei/Cataleg_serveis/Aules-dinformatica/VDI/). For more details see: https://www.cti.uib.cat/Servei/Cataleg_serveis/Aules-dinformatica/AulesDisponibles/
• The Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos library with consultation and work equipment for 225 students, 6 study booths, its own computer room with 19 computers, scanner, telelupe, 17 laptop computers for student loan, and wireless connection. For more details see: https://biblioteca.uib.cat/oferta/biblioteques/gaspar_melchor_jovellanos/Biblioteca-Gaspar-Melchor-de-Jovellanos.cid196111

Likewise, the doctoral students of the program can have the rest of the general services of the UIB Campus:

• Doctoral School: the Antoni Mª Alcover building offers a modern space that houses, on the first floor, the administrative headquarters for official postgraduate and doctoral degrees, a degree room with a capacity for 48 people and 5 offices for visiting professors; on the ground floor, teaching is mainly hosted, with a large modular classroom and, in the basement, dedicated to research, there are 10 laboratories furnished and equipped according to the needs of the research carried out in each one of them .
• Library and documentation service (http://biblioteca.uib.cat) that, beyond the physical consultation in the room, makes available to students a wide variety of electronic resources: electronic magazines, databases, electronic books , thematic guides, etc. For more information see: https://biblioteca.uib.cat/oferta/recursos_electronics/
• With regard to computer resources, the UIB has a Wi-fi network in all the teaching buildings and computer rooms attended by the CTI (Center for Information Technology), which are available from Monday to Friday from 9: 00 h. at 8:00 p.m. for training activities and open to free use by students when they are not used for teaching.