MBA Online

Game Theory and Applications
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This course covers game theory and its applications to various fields of economics. It studies static games with complete information, dynamic games with complete information, static games with incomplete information, dynamic games with incomplete information, and the equilibrium concepts corresponding to these games. It considers applications of these concepts to the study of industrial organization, international trade, labor economics, public economics, corporate finance, and monetary economics. Applications to auction and bargaining are also considered. Finally, it offers an introduction to mechanism design and its application to the procurement problem.

ECON6035
Political Economy of Economic Policy
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This course studies the relationship between the state and the market economy, especially highlighting the costs and benefits of economic policy interventions. Topics include: the economic value of the rule of law, property rights and institutional change, promoting competition and regulating markets, rules versus discretion in monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policy, and regionalism versus federalism. Selected case materials based on historical and contemporary examples will be used in classroom discussions, including international examples with emphasis on Hong Kong, China and Asia.
ECON6036

ECON6021
Microeconomic Analysis
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This course provides an advanced treatment of standard tools and frameworks in microeconomics that are used in other courses of the programme. Topics include: constrained and unconstrained optimization, consumer theory, uncertainty and information, cost and production, and market structure and equilibrium.
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This course is not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON6011.
ECON6022
Macroeconomic Analysis
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This course is an advanced treatment of the theory of the determination of national income and aggregate economic behaviour. Topics include: national income accounting, employment theory, inflation and deflation, monetary and fiscal policy for economic stabilisation, economic growth, and international economic issues. Applications to contemporary economic issues are emphasized.
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This course is not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON6012.

ECON6012
Macroeconomic Theory
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This course covers neo-classical macroeconomics, the Keynesian model and its problems, the consumption function and investment and economic fluctuations, supply and demand of money, the counterrevolution in monetary theory, inflation and unemployment and alternative policies for dealing with them, and open economy macroeconomics.

ECON6011
Microeconomic Theory
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This course covers how consumers and producers make choices and how these choices are equilibrated by the market. In the part on choice theory, utility maximisation and profit maximisation problems, together with corresponding dual problems, are considered. Optimal value functions are studied and used to perform comparative static analysis. Restrictions imposed by optimisation on consumer and producer behaviour are discussed. Choices under uncertainty are also investigated. The second part mainly covers the equilibrium in perfectly competitive markets and the two fundamental welfare theorems. It will also discuss the consequences of market failures, including public goods, externalities, and market power. Game theory will also be introduced.

ECON6007
Industrial Organization
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This course covers alternative forms of economic organizations, including the contractual nature of the firm, the meaning of monopoly and patent rights, the extraction of consumer surplus, and the purpose of integration and franchise arrangements. Government regulations will be discussed whenever appropriate.

ECON6001
Applied Econometrics
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This course examines how practical problems can be solved by using econometric methods. The emphasis is on the analysis of real world economic data using advanced statistical software. Topics include: estimation and testing of linear regression models, regression diagnostics, robust estimation, bootstrap, panel data, nonlinear least squares, discrete choice models and forecasting methods.

MFIN7011
Credit Risk
8
Tang, Dragon
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A comprehensive analysis of credit risk measurement and credit derivatives. Topics include credit events, expected default frequency, expected exposure, loss given default, default correlation, KMV, Credit Metrics, credit ratings performance and migration, total return swaps, credit default swaps, basket default swaps, credit spread forwards and options, exotic credit derivatives, credit-linked notes, and collateralized debt obligations.
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equivalent to MFIN6016 Seminar in Credit Risk Management
Prerequisites:
1. Spreadsheet Modelling in Finance;
2. Derivative Securities; and
3. Fixed Income Securities & Interest Rating Modelling

MFIN7009
Financial Engineering
7
Zhang, Jin
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Financial engineering is the design, development, and implementation of innovative financial products and of financial processes in the major market segments of currency, interest rates, equities, and commodities, for trading, investment, hedging, and risk management, using methods developed in finance, economics, mathematics, physics, and computational science. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, credit risk derivatives, insurance derivatives, exotic derivatives, volatility calibration, implementation of trading systems using Reuters, and advanced term structural models.
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Prerequisite:

Mathematical Techniques of Finance I

MFIN7004
Financial Services Regulations

Hsu, Berry
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This course provides students with the legal background necessary to comply with the regulatory requirements in banking and finance. It covers the legal aspects of corporate governance, the legal framework of banking and finance, and financial products, including derivatives. This course also provides students with background on market access in financial services, as China embarks on liberalization of its financial markets as a member of the WTO.
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Equivalent to MFIN6011 Derivatives: Law & Regulation