Mathematical Methods for Economics, apply mathematical methods to investigate economic theories and scrutinize issues in Economics. The course permits formulation and derivation of key relationships in a theory with clarity, generality, rigor, and simplicity. This course covers economic models, linear and nonlinear models, differential calculus, integration, differential equations, matrix algebra, and continuous time models.
- Lecturer: Ms. Udeshika Chandrarathne
- Lecturer: Mr. Asel Hettiarachchi
- Lecturer: Ms. Thilini Saparamadu
Labour Economics is a combination of both theoretical and empirical analysis of labour market dynamics, wage setting and employment determination. The specific topics to be analysed include labour force trends, education and training, wage and employment setting at the company level, unions, discrimination, labour productivity and real wages, government policy and technological change.
- Lecturer: Ms. Udeshika Chandrarathne
- Lecturer: Ms. Ishari Madukala
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. Udeshika Chandrarathne
- Lecturer: Mr. Asel Hettiarachchi
- Lecturer: Dr. P. Priyantha Lalanie
- Lecturer: Ms. Ishari Madukala
- Lecturer: Ms. Thilini Navaratne
- Lecturer: Ms. Amanda Perera
- Lecturer: Mr. Dilan Rajapakshe
- Lecturer: Ms. Thilini Saparamadu
- Lecturer: Dr. Dinesha Siriwardhane
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. Udeshika Chandrarathne
- Lecturer: Ms. Amanda Perera
- Lecturer: Dr. Ananda Rathnayaka
The objective of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of Development Economics that is useful in policy making and strategic business decisions. It encompasses, inter alia, areas of economic development, characteristics of developing nations, theories of economic development and growth, poverty, and income distribution. The major focus is on the Sri Lankan economy.
- Lecturer: Ms. Udeshika Chandrarathne
- Lecturer: Dr. Wasana Handapangoda
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: Mr. Asel Hettiarachchi
- Lecturer: Dr. Ananda Rathnayaka