This course provides students with an advanced knowledge on application of economic theory and decision science tools in in-firm managerial decision making. The major subject area includes demand analysis, demand estimation and forecasting, advanced production and cost analysis, market structures, game theory and strategic behaviour, pricing practices, and business and government decision making.
- Lecturer: Ms. Harini Amarasinghe
- Lecturer: Mr. Asel Hettiarachchi
- Lecturer: Mr. Dilan Rajapakshe
The course focuses on the issues of monetary policy implementation in the context of closed and open economies. It covers topics of money creation and monetary transmission mechanisms, inflation and expectations, neutrality of money. Further, it examines the term structure of the interest rates and extends discussion to the international dimension. The most important topics of open monetary economics are introduced- the interest rate and purchasing power parity conditions, the exchange rates regimes.
- Lecturer: Ms. Amanda Perera
- Lecturer: Dr. Ananda Rathnayaka
This course provides students with an introduction to the theory and practice of Econometrics, and experience in estimating econometric models with actual data. The course mainly focuses on techniques for estimating regression models, on problems commonly encountered in estimating such models, and on interpreting the estimates from such models. It covers the basic econometric concepts, simple and multiple regression analysis, basic econometric problems, simultaneous-equation models, panel data regression models, and time series econometrics. The course will be taught through lectures, practical sessions and tutorials. Software packages will be used in practical sessions.
- Lecturer: Ms. Udeshika Chandrarathne
- Lecturer: Dr. Janaka Fernando
- Lecturer: Ms. Amanda Perera
- Lecturer: Dr. Ananda Rathnayaka
SPECIAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAMME (SELP) (Non-Credit)
This is a Special English Language Programme introduced by the Department for the improvement of English language competence of the students, in addition to the credit courses in the degree programme. The programme has specially been designed for the students who require further English language competence at an advanced level for communicative, academic, reference and research purposes parallel to the objectives of the Department. This is a five-semester programme which offers the course units; BEC 2001 English for Business Economics Part I, BEC 2002 English for Business Economics Part II, BEC 3001 English for Business Economics Part III, BEC 3002 English for Business Economics Part IV and BEC 4001 Academic Writing for Business Economics.
BEC 3001: English for Business Economics Part III
This course is an extension of BEC 2001 and 2002 Courses. This is designed with the intention of further enhancing reading, writing, listening and speaking, skills of students in the field of Business Economics and this has been formulated according to UTEL Benchmark Band 8. This course focuses on level-appropriate grammar, vocabulary specific to various business domains, reading comprehensions related to field of business, presentation skills, letter writing skills and summarizing skills. This course also aims to familiarize students with finer points of business etiquettes and business correspondence. These aims will be achieved through a series of lectures conducted weekly within the semesters developing proficiency of students in Business English.
- Coordinator: Ms. Amanda Perera