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Unit of Study ECON5001 - Economics and Quantitative Analysis (2023)

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Unit description

Focuses on aspects of microeconomics and macroeconomics of most relevance to managers. The main themes are the market system and what it can accomplish; limitations and failures of markets; government policies and other factors in the macroeconomic environment impacting on business; how issues and government policies with respect to the international economy impact on business. Quantitative analytic techniques for business and economics are introduced and applied.

Unit content

1. Economics foundations

2. Statistics for economists

3. Demand, supply and elasticity

4. Profits, costs and factors of production

5. Competitive firm

6. Monopoly

7. Externalities, public goods and the public sector

8. Gross domestic product

9. Unemployment and inflation

10. Simple linear regression

11. Multiple linear regression

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2023 unit offering information will be available in November 2022

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

apply microeconomic and macroeconomic theory to understanding the behaviour of consumers, businesses, governments and other organisations

assess the impacts of economic activity on business, society and the natural environment to inform business decisions applying economic tools and concepts

evaluate the likely impacts on business of various macroeconomic considerations and government policy settings in an open economy to inform business decisions

analyse business and economic data and interpret quantitative analysis to inform business decisions using quantitative analytic techniques.