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An introduction to economic principles and their application to issues facing households, businesses and government in the New Zealand economy and the international economic environment. Note: CRNs 17450 and 15517 are for Vietnam-based students only.

An introduction to macroeconomics, including fiscal and monetary policies, the international sector, and analysis of income-expenditure, IS-MPR and aggregate demand-aggregate supply models.

This course in intermediate microeconomic analysis includes demand theory and applications of consumer behaviour, analysis of market structures, strategic behaviour, introductory welfare economics and analysis of public goods and externalities.

Applications of an open economy macroeconomic model to macroeconomic issues and policy, including the interdependence of macroeconomic activity and markets, the roles of expectations variables and other dynamic adjustment mechanisms, the significance...

Econometric theories with simulation and real-world data application including: ordinary least squares (with matrix algebra); generalised least squares; instrumental variables estimation; maximum likelihood estimation; binary response and limited dep...

This course is about carefully answering economic questions with data. Various classical and contemporary econometric techniques are presented and applied using econometric software to real and synthetic data, from realms such as education, health an...

Causes and consequences of Economic Growth, viewed both narrowly in terms of GDP, and more broadly in terms of the progress of societies. The roles of monetary and fiscal policy in shaping Macroeconomic outcomes. Individual, in-depth anlysis of these...

Economic policy addresses a broad range of factors: the role of the state; the interplay of market failure and government failure; and how policy instruments are used to affect outcomes. The course covers all of these and has a specific focus on taxa...

This course introduces and develops game theory and its applications.

Economic theory combines with empirical evidence in the study of the organisation of firms, industries and markets. The course draws on game theory, transaction cost analysis, information theory and the application of economics to legal issues.

An introduction to the economic analysis of law and legal institutions. The course covers issues in the economic analysis of tort law, property law, contract law, criminal law, litigation and settlement, as well as corporate and antitrust law.

This course covers both economic theories and real-world data analysis of the labour market with the following topics: causal inference, labour supply, labour demand, market equilibrium, immigration, and human capital accumulation.

The economics of information and incentives. Topics covered include efficiency; complete and incomplete verifiability; uncertainty, expected utility and insurance, moral hazard; selection, screening and lemons; auctions.

This course provides economic background to topical questions in environmental and resource economics Economic methods (eg cost-benefit analysis and static/dynamic efficiency) are applied to economics of pollution control (eg climate change), depleta...

Why are some countries rich while others are poor? How can less affluent countries catch up? This course aims to address these critical questions in economics. By building upon fundamental economic theories, the course guides you through an explorati...

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The economic aspects of disaster management and policy, including these topics: the economic history of natural disasters; the literature on the economics of natural disasters; a comparison with other types of economic shocks (finance, wars).

The Economics of Banking.

The economic aspects of disaster management and policy, including these topics: the economic history of natural disasters; the research literature on the economics of natural disasters; poverty and vulnerability, insurance, risk transfer, cost benefi...

This course examines topics at the intersection of philosophy, politics and economics. Topics may include: social choice theory, rational choice theory, economic history, value theory, the politics of global finance, global governance, and comparativ...

A review of theoretical models widely used in modern macroeconomics for studying positive and normative questions from an essentially New Classical macroeconomic perspective.

This course gives students an in depth knowledge of the principles of microeconomics and their application.

New Keynesian macroeconomics and its implications for Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DGSE) models.

This course gives students an in depth knowledge of the principles of macroeconomics and their application.

A study of advanced microeconomic theories including basic choice theory, consumer theory, decision-making under uncertainty, basic welfare theory, uncertainty, producer theory, and general equilibrium with production and firms.

Students will undertake an approved, supervised course of study relating to economics and complementing their work in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics programme.

This course applies game-theoretic models to contracts, incentives and delegation.

The course studies advanced econometric theories with both simulation and real-world data applications. It covers the following topics: asymptotic analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation, ordinary least squares, instrumental variables, systems of equations,...

In-depth coverage of econometric methods for time series and models for panel data.

The role of personal income tax and sales tax in achieving the appropriate balance between equity and efficiency; the impact on the efficiency/equity balance arising from different perspectives on distributive justice, income distribution, tax incide...

The role of policy instruments in achieving policy objectives. Applications are considered in environmental policy, health and safety regulations and interventions to influence savings decisions.

A study of international trade theory. Topics covered include the causes and consequences of trade under various market structures, the effects of impediments to free trade, firms in the global economy, trade and technology, the political economy of ...

Key issues and analytical techniques in modern open economy macroeconomics and international monetary economics. The course examines the role of intertemporal considerations in determining external balances, exchange rates, and monetary policy in sma...

In contrast to the rational and self-interested model of human behaviour traditionally used in economics, behavioural economics uses insights from psychology and sociology to make more realistic assumptions about human behaviour and motivations. In p...

A directed reading course, exploring a range issues in development economics.

This course features macroeconomic and structural modelling of the New Zealand economy, blending relevant economic theory, applied econometrics and policy-relevant material. Topics include the Reserve Bank and/or Treasury models, and applied equilibr...