Graduate Program

Our faculty members contribute to leading international journals and cover a broad spectrum of research areas in Economics. To see our faculty members click here. To see our publication list click here.

Each year, a significant number of our Master's students are accepted into prestigious Ph.D. programs abroad (click here to see our placement). Also, our Master's and Ph.D. graduates secure positions in both academic and non-academic roles in Brazil and internationally.

To view the list of our graduate courses, click here.

If you want to join our Master or Ph.D. programs, see the application instructions below:
•    Masters: (click here)
•    Ph.D.: (click here)

Contact

Director of Graduate Studies: Bernardo Guimarães (bernardo.guimaraes@fgv.br)

Administrative Office: cmcd.economia@fgv.br

Course Offering

Jan.-Feb. 2026
Applied Macroeconomics for Financial Markets
Mathematics for Economists
Statistical Learning
Statistics

March-April, 2026
Bayesian Macroeconometrics
Computational Methods in Economics
Econometrics I
Health Economics
International Finance
Macroeconomics I
Microeconomics I
Public Economics

May-June, 2026
Applied Macroeconomics
Applied Microeconomics
Econometrics II
Environmental Economics
Heterogeneous Firms in Macroeconomics: Theory and Data
Macroeconomics II
Microeconomics II
Theory of Corporate Finance
Topics in Economic History
Topics in Political Economy

July. 2026
Behavioral Economics
Open Macroeconomics
The Economics of Digital Currencies and Digital Payments

Aug.-Sep., 2026
Asset Pricing
Development
Economic Growth
Economics of Education
Game Theory
Microeconometrics I  
Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics
Trade Policy

Oct.-Dec., 2026
Behavioral Finance
Decision Theory
Empirical Asset Pricing
Empirical Industrial Organization
Microeconometrics II
Monetary Policy Models
Political Economy
Theory and Quantitative Methods in International Trade
Urban Economics

Placement

The Department of Economics has successfully placed master's students into doctoral programs in economics and related fields, as well as full-time jobs in the industry, research organizations, and governmental agencies. See below for detailed placement information.

2026

 

  • Bocconi
  • Columbia
  • Duke
  • Harvard (Pol. Sc.)
  • Illinois
  • Princeton
  • Princeton

2025

  • Chicago
  • Northwestern
  • Pompeu Fabra
  • UC Davis
  • Yale SoM

2024

  • HEC Montreal (Fin. Eng.)
  • LSE
  • MIT
  • MIT Sloan
  • Northwestern
  • Northwestern MEDS
  • Notre Dame
  • NYU (Pol. Sc.)
  • Stanford
  • UBC
  • UC Berkeley

 

2023

  • Barcelona GSE
  • Duke
  • MIT


2022

  • Berkeley (Finance)
  • Michigan
  • MIT
  • Northwestern (Kellogg)
  • Princeton
  • Rochester

2021

  • Barcelona GSE
  • Boston U
  • UC Davis
  • Queen Mary
  • Stanford (Education)
  • Swiss Finance Institute

2020

  • Duke
  • Minnesota
  • Northwestern
  • Northwestern (Finance)
  • Queen Mary
  • Stanford
  • Wisconsin

2019

  • Boston U
  • Duke
  • Minnesota
  • MIT
  • NYU
  • Rochester
  • Rochester
  • UC Santa Barbara

2018

  • UBC
  • Brown
  • Brown 
  • Minnesota

2017

  • Minnesota
  • Minnesota
  • Northwestern
  • Princeton
  • Yale

2016

  • Berkeley
  • Berkeley
  • LSE
  • Montreal
  • Wisconsin (Ag Econ)
  • Yale

2015

  • Chicago
  • Michigan
  • NYU
  • Wisconsin

2014

  • Illinois
  • Northwestern