| Area: |
WASM Mineral Economics Teaching Area |
| Credits: |
12.5 |
| Contact Hours: |
16.0 |
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| ** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. ** |
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| Lecture: |
4 x 4 Hours Weekly |
| Anti Requisite(s): |
13005 (v.2) WASM International Resource Competitiveness 601 or any previous version
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| Prerequisite(s): |
10939 (v.4) WASM Natural Resources Economics 601 or any previous version
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| Syllabus: |
The importance of minerals trade, trade and growth, the balance of payments, basis for trade - factor endowments and exchange, factor mobility or commodity trade - the alternatives, factor price equalisation - which factors? Pricing and trade mechanics. Market structure - multinationals and vertical integration - international price/quantity stabilisation, market disequilibrium - trade barriers, interventions, restrictive trade practices. Transport - physical Issues, process location and product specs, costing and netbacks. Trade finance and risk - principals and agents, physical - risk and hedge, exchange rates - PPP and practice and theory, spot rates and forward rates, exchange risk - some practice. Additional considerations - external influences such as environmental issues and technical transfers. Actual tuition undertaken as 16 hours of class in a four day module. |
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| ** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. ** |
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| Field of Education: | 091900 Economics and Econometrics (Narrow Grouping) |
| Funding Cluster: | 02 - Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce |
| SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information |
| Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
Availability |
| Year |
Location |
Period |
Internal |
Partially Online Internal |
Area External |
Central External |
Fully Online |
| 2005 |
Bentley Campus |
Semester 2 |
Y |
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| 2005 |
Bentley Campus |
Study Period 1 (Summer) |
Y |
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| 2005 |
Bentley Campus |
Trimester 1 |
Y |
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| 2005 |
Bentley Campus |
Trimester 2 |
Y |
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| 2005 |
Bentley Campus |
Trimester 3 |
Y |
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| 2005 |
Kalgoorlie Campus |
Trimester 1 |
Y |
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| 2005 |
Kalgoorlie Campus |
Trimester 2 |
Y |
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| 2005 |
Kalgoorlie Campus |
Trimester 3 |
Y |
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Area
External |
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
Partially
Online
Internal | refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External |
Fully
Online | refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External |
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