Economics

This course covers approaches and patterns of economic development in East Asian countries (including ASEAN member countries, China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan), East Asian development model, policies and roles of state in development, multinational corporation (MNCs) and East Asian production networks, and characteristics and problems of East Asian development model.

This course introduces the concepts and methods of game theory, focusing on situations where outcomes depend on the strategic interactions of multiple agents. It offers a study of modeling and analysis of decision-making in competitive and cooperative environments, with applications in economics and the social sciences.

This course offers a study of the Spanish financial system, institutions, and markets. It is divided into two blocks: Block 1: The financial system and the role of credit institutions and their supervisors. The role of credit institutions in economic development. Block 2: The role of financial systems, their functions, and specific characteristics. 

This course provides a study of the methodology for the analysis of equilibrium and efficiency in exchange economies, production economies, and environments with external effects.

This course examines the political economy of global monetary and financial relations. It is structured around such questions as: What is the global financial system and what purposes does it serve? What are the choices of monetary and financial policies open to national governments, and what determines governments’ different policy choices? How do governments and markets interact in the arena of global finance? How do private actors influence the governance of international finance? When and why are efforts to regulate global markets successful, and what are the distributional consequences of such efforts? What are the political causes and effects of global financial crises? In seeking answers to these questions, this course focuses on empirical and theoretical political economy models of money and finance. 

Through the study of this course, students can grasp the important historical context of the financial development in Europe and America, and analyze major historical events.

We should systematically understand and grasp the main aspects of the history of financia development, as the financial development in Europe and the United States basicall represents the history and direction of the world's financial development. This course focuse on history, not rigidly bound to history, and tries to integrate history, current situation and futur for analysis, so as to train students to have a general pattern of thinking problems, rather than just rigidl bound to the narrow vision of professional courses.

The basic contents of the course include: currency, monetary system, international monetary system; Early banking; The development of banking industry; Financial crisis; Financial supervision, etc. Look for its development law and forecast its development trend from the historical development track of finance; We should draw lessons from it and learn from history.

Labor markets connect individuals to the global economy, and earnings from labor are key elements of household income. This course uses theory and data to understand labor market responses to trade and globalization and to track consequences for individual and household well-being. It studies labor mobility and migration; the market for skills, and decisions on the school-to-work transition, with its empirical and policy focus on developing Asia.

By the end of the course, the class should be familiar with canonical models of economic growth, trade, labor markets and education, utilizing these models together with data to analyze the effects of real-world events such as resource export booms, global market shocks and domestic policies on employment, earnings, and educational decisions. The class is expected to interpret these for policy purposes and connect these analyses to broader narratives of economic development.

There are two limits to our sustainable economic growth: one is the limited capacity of the natural environment to receive waste and the other is the limited quantity of non-renewable energy and resources. This course provides an overview of the status quo and policy solution to those limits. The first part of the course discusses the data and policy examples of environmental problems. The latter part discusses the reason why these environmental problems occur as well as how to solve these problems in terms of economics. 

Required Prerequisites: Basic Microeconomics and Basic Macroeconomics.

This class provides the opportunity to work with a mentor; promote a new token-economy product (business model and service); create its prototype, and conduct a final presentation with peers. In preparation, the class comprises of lectures on blockchains, Web3, DeFi (Decentralised Finance), DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) and X to Eaern as well as instructions on how to use Figma and NetLogo.  

This course offers a study of financial theory including an evaluation of various financial products available in the financial market and their usefulness in the real economy. It also also focuses on managing portfolios of financial products and making financial decisions (investment and financing) within that functional area of a business.