Postgraduate - UnitECF9530 - Economics

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Economics
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2013 (Evening) Caulfield Second semester 2013 (Evening)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Wenli Cheng (First semester)

Synopsis

Microeconomics: scarcity; economic choice; economic systems; economic ideology; demand and supply analysis; consumer behaviour and elasticity; costs of production and profit maximisation; perfect competition and monopoly. Macroeconomics: aggregate demand and aggregate supply; Keynesian versus Neoclassical approaches; the money market and monetary policy; the government budget deficit and fiscal policy; the foreign exchange market and exchange rate policy; unemployment and inflation; the current and capital accounts.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

have a basic understanding of the methodology and principles of economics
have a basic understanding of micro and macro economics
present arguments and make decisions in the economic environment.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 40%
Examination: 60%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Wenli Cheng (First semester)
Associate Professor He-Ling Shi (Second semester)

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prohibitions

ECG9101