Associate ProfessorSatoshi Yamazaki

Yifan Lu

Chris Miyinzi Mwungu

Namgay Dorji

Skylar Anne Lovell

Mary Mackay

Ho Geun Jang

Rachel Louise Nichols

Steven Allen Rust

Honours candidates should contact the Economics Honours coordinator in the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics for the unit description.

The goal of this unit is to provide a thorough understanding of key topics in environmental and natural resource economics. While the emphasis is on the economic approach to issues and debates on environmental and resource problems, students are provided with a solid understanding of the key concepts and techniques in economics. The topics include market failures, property rights, pollution control, global commons, management of fish and forest resources, and environmental valuation. Basic economic concepts taught at first year are reviewed and extended to examine topics in environmental and resource economics. The unit is core in the Economic Foundations Major and the Environmental and Resource Economics Major in the Bachelor of Economics and may be taken as an elective in any other Bachelor of Economics program. The unit may also be taken as part of many other courses within the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics and the University. Enrolments often reflect a diversity of student backgrounds and interests

The goal of the unit is to develop a thorough understanding of basic econometric methods so that the student can, at the end of this unit:Critically evaluate empirical studies in economics and finance which involve use of simple econometric techniques in estimation and inference;Develop an appreciation of the likely problems in data and know how to deal with them;Obtain a good background for a further study in econometrics and applied economics.This unit is compulsory in the Bachelor of Economics degree and it is also an excellent complimentary unit in the Finance major. This unit is the prerequisite for BEA342 Econometrics which itself is the prerequisite for the Honours program in Economics and Finance.

Microeconomics is essential for advancing understanding of human behaviours and evaluating the impact of public policy and business practices. The unit builds upon the materials covered in undergraduate economic units. The goal of the unit is to apply the basic principles of microeconomics to analyse a range of real-world problems and policy issues that involve the behaviour of consumers and firms and market interaction. The unit covers both theoretical and empirical approaches in microeconomics.

Practical, public policy-orientated lectures and tutorials in this unit explore the practical issues of resource management using international, Australian and Tasmanian case studies. There will be specific focus on the sustainable yield of fisheries and the management of forests for multiple uses. Students will also study non-renewable resources such as mining. Students will learn how to apply economic concepts to analyse the causes of resource degradation and to evaluate alternative policy options to resolve resource management problems. By the end of the unit, students will have engaged in discussion and analysis of the complex trade-offs involved in crafting policy responses to resource management issues.