EC5208 - International Trade
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | Discipline of Economics |
Subject to sufficient enrolments
An exposition of the theory of international trade, the theory and practice of commercial policy and the theory of open-economy macroeconomics and its relation to regional development.
Learning Outcomes
- be able to apply this theory to a critical evaluation of policy debates;
- be able to evaluate the usefulness and limitations of international economics theory;
- have a knowledge of international trade.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area.
| Prerequisites: | An introductory economics subject (equivalent to EC1005 or LB5003) |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | EC3401 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 31-Aug-2007 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Professor Zhang-Yue Zhou. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); presentations (10%); essays (40%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 31-Aug-2007 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Richard Monypenny, jc155016 |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); presentations (10%); essays (40%). |
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