浅谈下School of Economics in University of Adelaide

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07-09 在Economics faculty 完成了BA+PG Programs

基本上上过大部分教授和讲师的课程,感觉大部分对学生而言还是相对比较负责任的,尽管有部分课堂讲解比较不那么清楚.

BA year 3 的课程和PG3D课程是一样的,只是对PG要求稍微严格一些

简单介绍下BA Core courses&Electives year2+year3
Core Courses in Year2
Macro2 year2 Core course 那时候in charge还是 Associate Professor Colin Rogers，, 他基本上上课不怎么按照书上讲,是少见不用PPT的,一上课就板书,每节课下来笔记倒是抄得不少,因为课后复习就只能靠这些笔记了,部分讲解内容会和教科书有出入,而且考试内容以笔记为准..

Research InterestsFoundations of monetary theory, open economy macroeconomics, the Economics of Keynes

那时候学起来比较吃力,可能对Diagrams(IS/LM BP)变化的理解不大透彻.但是到了后来PG的international Finance(H) 学得还勉强,可能是对China's exchange rate 研究比较感兴趣

最后4节课in charge 是Dr Jacob Wong，主要特点是把课程内容是化简为繁,听起来比较confused. 还好那时BA 他讲课内容不考,所以也没听的很专心.

这也是year2 比较难的课程,其它核心课程相对简单点, 例如Micro2,一个新加坡的lecture,Miss Wong刚来adelaide教的第一学期第一门课,期中考试题目量太多但难度还适中,后来听说1年后离开了,可能教学方式比较亚洲化,Local 可能不大适应.
international trade and policy,这门课还是Head  Christopher Findlay，PPT弄得清晰明了,结合例子讲解trade policy,挺生动.
EFDA(statistics) by Dr Emma Hunt, 数学系过来客串一个学期,教的比较简单这学期,后来听后面那几届说换了lecture教的都挺难得..

Year 3 Course curriculum

Compulsory course：international Economic History or Australia Economic History Charged by Richard Pomfret, 挺nice一个professor, 讲解得很专业,自己发表了很多PAPER,具体经济历史事件年份随时脱口而出,偶尔会客串下international trade 2or 3 课程..

Elective courses :INTERNATIONAL TRADE III ,这门课1个学期,2个lecture,上半学期Visiting Professor Winter, 在trade上有点建树,印象最深刻是上课时候说了一句话让座在教室里面学生很汗," 难怪你们比不上ANU 经济院学生,因为那时候布置了assignment,没多少人做,估计也是不算分原因,  可能因此有点郁闷吧 Winter .

MONEY, BANKING & FIN MKTS III  BY Penny, Business school 过来的lecture, 教学水平实在不敢恭维,本来很attracting course教的很沉闷,竟然会考些what is hedge fund??  Crazy!!! tutor 更加不负责,一上来就把solution 抄在黑板上直到下课离开..这门课开设明显有赚钱嫌疑..
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS III  BY Dr Pataporn Sukontamarn, LSE毕业的.教学态度很认真, 那时候Week 12 一个学期课程结束后还主动加课,对学生非常友好,只是对课程内容不大感兴趣, 那时候还兼任了PG Coordinator, 平时总是能看到她忙碌身影..最近回泰国度假进修了..
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE III  BY Steven Hail, 上课非常有激情一个老师, 不会让人有打瞌睡感觉. 因为在英国有finance相关工作经验,讲解不会那么理论化, Textbook 用的是 Cardiff business school 一个professor写的, 但感觉写的比较难懂..后来离开了school了..院系一大损失啊..

RESOURCE & ENV ECO III BY Dr Stephanie McWhinnie, Auckland PHD..

M.Applied Economics 2009
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE (H) BY Colin Rogers, BA 的Macro2 associate professor, 风趣老头,在最近越演越烈人民币升值态度上更倾向 加快升值步伐,和其尊敬的学者, Professor Mckinnon, Stanford UNI 对中国汇率调整观点有一定差异..这门课看了很多关于Mckinnon paper, 回顾了LOST DECADE FOR JAPANESE ECONOMY, floating or fixed exchange rate etc.. 很受用一门课程

MACROECONOMICS A(H) BYFabrice Collard 09年school新引进的宏观方向associate professor,很牛的, 上课教的还是比较偏难了,可能从研究转型到教学需要一定过程积累
Research Topics:

• Macroeconomic theory,
• Business cycles,
• Applied macroeconometrics,
• Computational methods.

TOPIC IN APP ECONOMETRICS IIID BY Dr Nadya Baryshnikova,Brown PHD
Research InterestsTheoretical and applied econometrics with the focus on instrumental variables (IV), tests that are robust to weak instruments, generalized empirical likelihood (GEL) and dynamic panel data. I am also interested in microeconomic applications in the fields of development economics, environmental economics and health economics.

STATA+EXAM, 比较实用课程..lecture人也很nice,答疑时候也很耐心

ECONOMIC THEORY IIID(PG Compulsory course) 其实就是Macro3+Micro 3
MACRO 3 BY Mark Weder, German professor, 不大考虑学生feedback, 一上课就顾自己讲了,也不适度调整下课程难度
MICRO3 BY Dr Mandar Oak, Cornell PHD  上课比较boring, 快睡着了..不过是个好人..

INTERNATIONAL TRADE (H) BY Kym Anderson, WORLD CLASS Professor in agricultural trade fied
Research InterestsHis research interests and publications are in the areas of international trade and development, agricultural economics, environmental economics, and wine economics. His most recent projects have focused on empirical analysis of such issues as the Doha Development Agenda of the World Trade Organization (www.worldbank.org/trade/wto); global distortions to agricultural incentives (www.worldbank.org/agdistortions); economics of agricultural biotechnology (GMO) policies globally (www.econ.worldbank.org/programs/trade/biotech); and wine globalization (www.adelaide.edu.au/cies/wine). He has published more than 25 books and more than 250 journal articles and chapters in other books.

自己有world Bank Project, 精力可能有点分散给学生上lecture时候..exam 给分还是相对比较严格的..

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