This course aims at increasing students' exposure to and awareness of a wide variety of real world economic and business issues.
 
Through seminars delivered by economics experts and business professionals on a variety of economic and business issues, students will strengthen their discovery skills for innovative analyses of these issues.  
To evaluate students' accomplishments of discovery in putting forward their own analyses, and recommendations where applicable, students are required to participate in class, complete group project papers, and write two individual reports for the course.  
 
The group project papers list the main points on what students have learned from the seminars in this course. Students will engage in group discussion, and complete several group project papers as designated by the course leader.
 
The individual reports reflect students' own analyses of the issues that the speakers lecture on and would provide evidence of their accomplishments of discovery. Students may expand on what the speakers lecture on for their reports. As some seminars are related to current issues with no definite resolutions of the problems, students may provide their own viewpoints in their reports that are opposite to what the speakers would present as long as they justify these views using their own analyses and recommendations. Some of these current issues may include predicting whether central banks will loosen or tighten monetary policy, whether the Hong Kong dollar should be linked to the US dollar, etc.