China

This course explores Chinese economic reforms and development, and introduces many of the elements of China's emergence and its potential role in the world economy. It uses China as a case study placing Chinese economic development in a historical and comparative context, exploring the contradiction between the unprecedented economic growth of the past century and the persistence of poverty in wealthy countries. The course begins with theories of economic growth and poverty, and studies economic and social institutions and public policy debates on ways to achieve rising incomes while improving living standards and promoting equality. The first part is on economic development and the most commonly used models of development. The second part covers contracts and development. 

Chinese-taught version of ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION. Slightly different title used at the host, but same course.

The teaching purpose of this course is to enable students to master the basic concepts of advertising copywriting, understand the thinking framework of advertising copywriting writing, master the writing requirements and methods of copywriting, and initially have the ability to write advertising copywriting and this major through the elaboration of basic theories and the analysis of typical examples. Basic analysis and judgment skills in the field.

The content of this course consists of the following parts: basic concepts; source of copywriting; quality and thinking of copywriters; strategic thinking of copywriting; copywriting and creativity; perceptual and rational techniques of copywriting; advertising slogans; title; Text and accompanying text; print advertising copy; audio and video advertising copy; copywriting test.

This course provides understanding of the post-war political and economic development model in East Asia, the historical background and basic processes of the rise of East Asia, China's Reform and Opening Up policy and socialist modernization, and lays a solid foundation for studying East Asian problems. The course aims to comparatively analyze the political development of East Asian countries and regions, covering roughly the 10 ASEAN countries and China, Japan and Korea. The political development of East Asia is deeply influenced by domestic factors such as the socio-economic changes of various countries and the international factors such as the United State's East Asian policy and globalization. The course content includes the rise of East Asia and its historical and international background, the analysis of the economic and political culture of the East Asian development model, and the analysis of the political development of major countries and regions such as Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

• -  Students will gain a basic structure about quantitative finance, learn the definition and application of various derivatives, and how to apply binomial trees to price financial derivatives.

• -  Students will learn trading strategies involving call and put options.

• -  Students will master how to apply risk measures such as Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall in risk management framework.

This course covers forwards, futures, swaps, and options. In Part I, students will have good knowledge of how forwards, futures and swaps work, how they are used, and how they are priced. In Part II, we will introduce the mechanics of option markets, properties of stock options, options on stock indices and currencies as well as various types of exotic options. In Part III, theories about binomial trees, Wiener processes, Ito’s Lemma, Black-Scholes-Merton Model will be further illustrated, and market risk measures will be covered.

This course introduces the fundamental principles of international finance and its applications. Course topics include the structure, function and operation of Foreign Exchange Market; the concept and theory of balance of payments; models of interest rate parity, purchasing power parity and exchange rate determination to analyze exchange rate changes and forecast exchange rate; the evolution of International Monetary System; Output, exchange rate and macroeconomic policy, and international financial topics.