Economics

The course is designed to equip students with experience, knowledge, and skills for succeeding in globally interdependent and culturally diverse workplaces. During the course, students are challenged to question, reflect upon, and respond thoughtfully to the issues they observe and encounter in the internship setting and local host environment. Professional and personal development skills as defined by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), such as critical thinking, teamwork, and diversity are cultivated. Assignments focus on building a portfolio that highlights those competencies and their application to workplace skills. The hybrid nature of the course allows students to develop their skills in a self-paced environment with face-to-face meetings and check-ins to frame their intercultural internship experience. Students complete 45 hours of in-person and asynchronous online learning activities and 225-300 hours at the internship placement.

This course provides students with a framework for modelling and understanding the behavior of firms in a dynamic setting.  Emphasis is placed on intertemporal factors that influence firms’ strategic behavior in imperfectly competitive markets.

This course examines findings from economics, psychology and neuroscience to discuss decision making at the level of individuals, within small groups and in more anonymous and impersonal market settings with an emphasis on the role of social norms and cognitive biases.

This course examines the basic principles, methods and models of econometrics, including the principle of single variable and multiple variables linear regression analysis, simple nonlinear regression analysis, multi-equation model, basic time series analysis, fundamental panel data model, the discrete (binary) choice models, and applied econometrics methods and examples.