University of Hong Kong

This course examines the psychological factors involved with human judgment and decision making. It will contrast human decision making with normative theories of rational choice, and survey psychological evidence of systematic decision biases and errors in judgments. It will discuss the heuristics and biases approach to judgment and decision errors, and critiques of this approach. 

This course examines the architecture of East Asia from prehistory to the early modern period. In addition to monumental buildings such as temples and palaces, the examples range from urban planning and garden design to peasant dwellings and nomadic structures. A number of architectural traditions are covered, including Bhutanese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uyghur. Among the socio-cultural factors that have shaped East Asia’s built environments, it looks at Buddhism and the literati as influences traversing geopolitical borders, as well as vernacular development of structural systems, spatial geometries, and material utilization based on the land, climate, and other natural conditions.

This course develops the basic concepts and tools applicable to corporate financial decisions. It studies the three main tasks of financial managers: project evaluation, financing decisions, and working capital management. Specific topics include present value calculation, valuation of stocks and bonds, investment criteria and capital budgeting, risk and return, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, short term financial planning, and credit and inventory management. Prerequisite: an introductory accounting course. Text: Ross et al., CORPORATE FINANCE FUNDAMENTALS. Assessment: four assignments (16%), 16-page group project (14%), midterm exam (30%), final exam (40%).