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ECON0603 The economic system of Hong Kong Semester : 2 For Student of Year : 2 & 3 The course provides a comprehensive discussion of the salient aspects of the Hong Kong economy. Topics include Hong Kong's national income accounting and economic development, the monetary system and exchange rate regime, the financial system, public finance and fiscal policy, external trade and foreign investment, economic relations with the Mainland, the labour market and employment, the property market and housing policy, regulation of public utilities and competition policy, industrial development and policy, and income distribution. Emphasis will be given to both economic analysis and institutional

The Chinese Economy General Information This course reviews the economic transformation of the People's Republic of China and its implications. China's experiences are subjected to theoretical and empirical analysis by using modern economic methods. The course covers structural and institutional changes as well as current debates on reform and policy. Topics include: history, geography, population, rural reform, industrialisation, urbanisation, enterprise reform, foreign trade and investment, financial system, and regional development.

International Political Economy Differing levels of greed for money, hunger for power, and laziness are key characteristics of all humans. On a group level, these individual characteristics interact to determine the political and economic nature of how people live. When there is more than one group of people, political economy becomes international. This course is designed to make international political economy, a seemingly dull, complex and irrelevant subject, exciting, simple and useful to everyone. Candidates for this course need only to be human beings to develop a sophisticated understanding of the interaction between economics and politics on a global basis. No

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo 1101: Principles of Political Economy This course is an introduction to Principles of Political Economy, in which students will learn the basic theory of capitalism as well as historical characteristics of contemporary capitalism.

ECON6012 Macroeconomic Theory General Information 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.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo 4050: Political Economy Summer Shibata The cource studies modern business cycles from the viewpoint of financial instability.

ECON6010 Monetary Policy: Theory and Practice General Information This course traces the evolution of central banks over the last 200 years from primitive financial clearing-houses to promoters of macroeconomic stability and growth as a natural progression as policy-makers sought to combat various challenges to macroeconomic stability, such as inflation and systemic financial risk. The course will discuss different monetary policy regimes, including currency boards and inflation targeting, and the inherent trade-offs between them, focusing especially on the importance of credibility and expectations. Optimal monetary policy design and the monetary transmission mechanism will also be covered.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo 4020: Principles of Political Economy Summer Obata This course will focus on inquiring recent topics of Marxian economics at an advanced level. At the same time it aims to help students to understand the meaning of classics such as Das Kaptia

Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Hong Kong ECON0501 Economic development Semester : 1 For Student of Year : 2 & 3 Characteristics of underdevelopment; factors in economic development; theoretical and policy aspects of development.

ECON6007 Industrial Organization General Information 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.

ECON6021 Microeconomic Analysis General Information 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. Extra Information This course is not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON6011. ECON6022 Macroeconomic Analysis General Information 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,

Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Hong Kong ECON0207 Monetary economics Semester : 1 For Student of Year : 2 & 3 This course discusses the role of money in the economy, including how money affects inflation, interest rates and output and employment in both the static and dynamic contexts. Related topics are theories of money demand and supply, the conduct of monetary policy, rules vs. discretion, adaptive and rational expectations, time inconsistency, origin of money, and electronic means of payments.

ECON6015 Public Economics Bergin, Jim General Information This course covers the positive and normative analyses of the public sector in relation to efficiency and equity. It provides a better understanding of the making of public policy under asymmetric information and limited commitment, and the role of incentives in public administration. Topics include: market failure, welfare criteria, public goods and externalities, social choice and voting, income distribution, public pricing and investment, cost-benefit analysis and project appraisal, and the regulation of public enterprises.

MFIN7007A Economics for Financial Analysis 1 Luk, Y.F. General Information This module provides the foundation in economics that is essential in financial analysis. The major topics include microeconomics, macroeconomics and international economics: consumer choice, costs and the supply of goods and services, competitive market structure, the role of government in the economy, national income accounting, business cycles, aggregate demand/supply, fiscal and monetary policies, the level and structure of interest rates, the role of expectations in economic analysis, economic growth, comparative advantages and international trade, international finance and foreign exchange markets. Appropriate references will be made to current issues in Hong Kong, the

Help MBA students understand that macro-economy equilibrium needs aggregate supply equal to aggregate demand, but this situation happens very few.. In most situations these two parts don’t equal to each other. Aggregate demand would have lead effect. What would decide the aggregate demand is consume, investment, balance payment and finance income and expense. For realizing the equilibrium of macro-economy, the government should use different monetary policy and fiscal policy to regulate aggregate demand and aggregate supply under different situation to make these two parts equal to each other. So we need to explain and analysis the reasons and effects of