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FIN2003 Financial Management
财务管理
The objective of this course is to enable students to (1) understand the fundamental concepts in finance; (2) assess alternative investment possibilities; and (3) evaluate different sources of financing projects.
Check DetailsECON3053 Foundations of Chinese Economy
中国经济概论
This course aims to introduce students with the basic features of the Chinese economic system and its performance since 1949, with emphasis on its post-1978 reform period. The institutional reforms in various sectors and the gradual open-up of the economy will be analysed in detail. After taking this course, the students are expected to understand why China was successful in maintaining a high economic growth in the past two decades and what challenges it will be facing in the future.
Check DetailsECON3073 Games and Economic Decisions
博弈与经济决策
This course aims to introduce students to the field of game theory and strategic thinking. The course will cover topics such as Nash Equilibrium, Mixed Strategies Equilibrium, Bayesian Games, Repeated Games, and Bargaining. The course will enhance students’ logical thinking skills which will be beneficial for their daily life and their future professional careers.
Check DetailsECON3033 Hong Kong Economy
香港经济
This course aims to introduce to students both the state and the running of the Hong Kong economy. It also attempts to show what are the major problems facing Hong Kong’s economy and how Hong Kong should deal with these problems. Especially, the competition from the Pan‐Pearl River Delta region and how Hong Kong’s economy should be integrated into this region will be carefully discussed. The course also intends to teach students how to apply basic economic theories to the real world analysis of the Hong Kong economy.
Check DetailsGCIT1003 IT for Success in Everyday Life and Work
日常生活和工作中的信息技术
This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of Information Technology (IT), and develops students’ confidence in using computers and computer applications. Useful and practical course contents are selected for learning how to be a competitive person in this information era. Students are introduced to the background of Computer Science, and the modern IT sector. Some of the major IT organisations are introduced, and current IT issues and questions are discussed. The basic architecture and design of a computer is explained. Software applications useful for students of all majors are introduced.
Check DetailsECON4013 Industrial Organisation
产业组织
The objective of this course is to equip students with the analytical skills of helping a firm to make an optimising strategy. Through studying various market structures and environments, students will learn the firms’ optimal decisions, such as pricing decisions, production decisions, location decisions, merging decisions, and outsourcing decisions, etc. Other than studying from the perspectives of firms, students will also learn what policies and regulations a government should introduce in order to promote competition and increase welfare of the whole economy.
Check DetailsECON4063 Information Economics
信息经济学
This course aims to offer students the basic training in information economics, a relatively young field of economics but of increasing importance, to enable them to recognise and deal with the commonly encountered informational problems in real practice, a skill more than just helpful in this information age for many professional careers. As the course is also to show new ways of thinking relevant in many contexts in both micro-and macroeconomics, students will learn to integrate their knowledge from a new perspective, for enhanced skills in these contexts. They will also be exposed to the frontiers of the field, so as for them to follow the advances in the field as part of their life-long learning.
Check DetailsECON3003 Intermediate Macroeconomics
中级宏观经济学
This course aims first to take a closer and more critical look at the main building blocks of macroeconomics which had been introduced to students in earlier courses, and secondly to equip students with some more advanced theories and techniques for them to understand and analyse major macroeconomic issues facing the society. This course will not only impart knowledge required for more specialised courses later in the Applied Economics Programme, but will also provide the theoretical and technical economic training helpful for students aspiring for positions of responsibility in business, government, or other social organisations.
Check DetailsECON3063 Intermediate Microeconomics
中级微观经济学
This course is more advanced than an introductory course but less abstract and less technical than a graduate course. It aims at providing not only necessary tools and theories, serving as a bridge to graduate studies, but also a deeper understanding of those theories and applications for preparing students to take roles of executives in private enterprises, public organisations, economic researchers, analysts, forecasters, business journalists and teachers, who are expected to be equipped with concrete training in economics.
Check DetailsECON4073 International Macroeconomics
国际宏观经济学
The course addresses current issues in open economy macroeconomics and international finance. The goal of the course is to familiarise the students with major topics of international macroeconomics and apply them to real life. A number of formal models will be presented and their relation with data discussed. Topics include an exchange rate determination and dynamics, macroeconomic policy under fixed and floating exchange rate regimes, current account behaviour, exchange rate management and international policy coordination, and the history of the international monetary system. Special attention is given to the international financial architecture.
Check DetailsECON4083 International Trade
国际贸易
The objective of this course is to train students to use economical analytical frameworks to understand international trade: what determines its volume and its pattern. Then, through these analyses, students can understand the implications of international trade to an economy: why trade benefits all participating economies. Lastly, students can understand the impacts of different protectionist policies that hinder international trade.
Check DetailsECON2033 Introduction to Empirical Economics
实证经济学导论
Empirical economics incorporates an endless spectrum of theories and methods to extract information from the data. This course serves as an introduction to applications of empirical methods in business and economics. The students will become familiar with how to interpret basic descriptive statistics, probability distributions, point and interval estimations, statistical inference, forecasting, and simple linear regression analysis. We will focus on concepts and practice, keeping aside as much of the analytics and the theoretical background of the methods as possible.
Check DetailsECON4023 Labour Economics
劳动经济学
This course aims to provide an understanding of the labour market in an economy. It seeks to describe, theorise, and analyse the behaviour of the labour market. Issues of investment in human capital (education and on-the-job training), wage differentials and discrimination are discussed. Applications of concepts and theories in the area of human resources and personnel economics (labour turnover, labour mobility and incentive pay schemes) are also presented. To enhance the understanding and the application of labour economics theories, training on data analysis and knowledge of analytical tools are provided. This course will provide the theoretical and technical training in economics helpful for students aspiring for positions in business, government, or other social organisations.
Check DetailsECON3113 Linear Algebra for Economics and Finance
线性代数及其经济与财务应用
This course introduces the theory and technics of matrices, vector space, and liner programming, as well as their applications in economic models. After studying this course, students will have a better mastery of knowledge in linear algebra. With extensive examples and application in economic and financial areas, it will help them in studying economical and finance courses currently and in the future.
Check DetailsBUS4023 Management Information Systems
管理资讯系统
This course aims to provide an introduction to the field of management information systems (MIS). Students will learn how to analyse the business processes for an enterprise system. Then, the technical foundation, including different kinds of hardware and software, will be introduced such that students can think of tools to enhance improvement for the companies. After that, students will learn how the companies apply management information systems to maintain their competitive edge nowadays. Last, but not the least, students will learn how to develop and to manage information systems in organisations.
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