BA (Hons) Economics Bachelor's degree at Liverpool Hope University

Covers Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. Topics include supply and demand, market failures, and market structure. Also discusses factor markets, income inequality, GDP measurement, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth. Includes exchange rates, international trade, fiscal and monetary policy, and government spending and taxation.

Students will learn basic algebra, introductory calculus, and optimisation techniques. Covers descriptive and inferential statistics and using statistical software for data analysis.

Students will explore how economic thought has evolved. Studies theories from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to modern debates. Key topics include price and market dynamics, population growth, resource allocation, and income distribution. Important figures include Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Robert Malthus, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, John Hicks, Paul Samuelson, and Milton Friedman.

Focuses on accessing knowledge, demonstrating command of concepts, and discussing economic ideas in published, non-technical materials.

Introduces game theory and strategic decision-making. Students will learn how people and organizations operate in competitive and cooperative settings. Discusses key topics like Nash equilibrium, dominant and mixed strategies, and extensive form games. Covers decision-making under uncertainty and the importance of information in strategies.

Explores key concepts and practices in the field. Introduces essential financial ideas and addresses corporate finance issues. Students will learn about present value, cost of capital, and techniques for valuing bonds and stocks. Explores capital budgeting, investment opportunities, portfolio theory, asset pricing models, dividend and debt policies, and the relationship between risk and return. Covers financial decision-making, management, and governance.

Covers intermediate microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis. Combines formal theory with real-world problems. Students will learn economic theory through calculus, algebra, and graphs. Uses real-world examples and a step-by-step approach to show how micro and macro theory can solve practical issues and inform policies.

Students will learn about econometric methods and statistical techniques used to test research hypotheses and economic relationships. Focus on practical econometric tools, including basic regression analysis using time series data, panel data models, model misspecification, use of SPSS/STATA and other statistical packages, and introduction to maximum likelihood estimation and nonlinear models.

Students will explore how economic theories apply to important global issues. Focus on current challenges, including causes and consequences of recent financial crises, economic impacts of European Union integration and Brexit, emerging economies, international trade, trade wars, and protectionism, globalisation and mass migration, and environmental economics.

Covers the steps for conducting applied economic research. Key topics include selecting a topic, literature reviews, choosing research methods, formulating hypotheses, testing them with statistical analysis, and summarising results.

Teaches the relationship between the environment and sustainable development. Key topics include climate change, air and water pollution, and methods of environmental economics. Covers externalities, cost-benefit analysis, and valuing environmental services. Illustrates strategies for meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Applies economic theory and empirical methods to labour supply and demand, human capital investment, minimum wages, union effects on wages, and labor market discrimination. Covers macro aspects like unemployment causes, cures, and the relationship between unemployment and inflation, as well as income distribution.

Looks at international economic theory and real-world policy issues in a changing global economy. Covers trade and monetary topics, supported by data and policy analysis. Examines the history and roles of major institutions such as the IMF, World Bank, and WTO.

Studies the economic theories of banking and finance with special emphasis on the role of banking and the financial system in the wider economy, the microeconomic basis of financial economics, the principles of monetary policy, regulation and government intervention in the banking and financial sector, the impact of the financial crisis on banking and financial system, and financial liberalisation.

Advanced module equipping economics students with essential programming skills and computational techniques necessary for modern economic analysis. Emphasises practical application; students will learn to code using Python and R. Covers data manipulation, statistical analysis, and economic modeling, preparing students to tackle real-world economic problems using computational methods.

Provides a concise and nontechnical overview of the role of government in an economy from a global perspective. Topics covered include the justification for government involvement, the aims of state economic activity, and the tools available to governments. Refers to global examples to shed light on the history and evolution of the government activity.

Offers a thorough understanding of how behavioural, psychological and social factors affect decision-making in economics. Explores how real-world behaviour deviates from traditional game theory predictions and highlights its importance in facilitating effective policy-making and in explaining consumer and producer behaviour.

Students will complete a Research Project (or an Integrated Dissertation). Enables them to explore in depth a subject of their choosing related to Economics. Students will be able to deploy their research skills, data gathering and analysis and develop the ability to critically analyse their work and draw appropriate conclusions.