This module aims to provide students with the analytical tools required to understand the micro and macro economic environment within which businesses function and how this has direct relevance to the decision-making processes of managers. The course content includes: Production and Investment analysis - microeconomic techniques are used to analyze production efficiency, investment-consumption model, optimum factor allocation, costs, economies of scale and to estimate the firm's cost function. Pricing analysis - microeconomic techniques are used to analyze various pricing decisions including transfer pricing, joint product pricing, price discrimination, price elasticity estimations, and choosing the optimum pricing method; Types of market structure - perfect competition ,monopolistic competition, oligopolistic competition; nature and sources of competitive advantage; market failure and government intervention; Relevance of Macroeconomic policy to the operational strategies of a firm - fiscal, monetary and income policies; the nature and effects of economic growth, unemployment and inflation; an analysis of the determination of interest rates, foreign exchange rates and the balance of payment accounts, international business environment, globalization, multilateralism and regionalism and FDI. International Economic and Business Law. |
Administrative assistant: TASLIMA BOODHUN-JHUMKA
Telephone: 4037400
Email: t.boodhun@uom.ac.mu |