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Examines how firms compete. Focuses on the frameworks and tools needed to make sense of the competitive landscape in order to formulate and implement strategies. Considers the challenges and constraints that managers face in increasingly complex environments and industries.

An introduction to theories of the nature, functions and origins of law and legal systems, including sources of law; comparative concepts of law; an overview of constitutional and legal arrangements in New Zealand, including the role of the courts; the operation of the legal system in historical and contemporary New Zealand with a focus on concepts of property rights, the Treaty of Waitangi, Treaty Settlements and proposals for constitutional change.

A study of the modern literature on exchange rate markets, exchange rate determination and the implications of exchange rate movements for various economic issues. Students will gain an understanding of why exchange rates change, of financial market arrangements, and of the reasons for, and implications of, recent events in international financial markets.

Explores the distinctive nature of business conducted beyond the boundary of the domestic market. Examines how firms reach multinational scale while exposed to the turbulence and complexity of international political and economic forces.

The main theories of international trade in goods and services, and of international movements of capital and labor. Partial equilibrium and general equilibrium analysis of the major instruments of trade policy, their economic effects, and the issues created by their use in practice. The economics of regional trading arrangements, such as free trade areas, customs unions, and common markets.

Economic analysis of law and organization, and the application of economics to property rights, patents, and natural resource management. Includes contracts, transaction cost analysis, classical contracting, long-run contracts, enforcement, the role of market forces, risk aversion, remedies for breach, economic theory for torts, negligence rules, strict liability, multiple torts, product liability. Special topics may include crime.

Basic principles and concepts of accounting that underlie the production of information for internal and external reporting. This course provides the technical platform for second-year courses in financial and management accounting, finance, and accounting information systems.

Provides an introduction to the dynamic micro-foundations of macroeconomics, and demonstrates how we can utilize these foundations (i) to understand the trends and fluctuations of macroeconomic aggregates like national output, unemployment, inflation, and interest rates, and (ii) to predict the outcome of alternative government policies related to current economic problems of New Zealand and the rest of the world.

Study of the allocation of scarce resources among competing end uses. Intermediate-level analysis of the economic behavior of individual units, in particular consumers and firms. Although the focus is on perfectly competitive markets, attention is also given to other types of markets. The analysis also includes concepts of expected utility and uncertainty and welfare economics.