Course Descriptions of Year I (Semester I) Courses

MBE 5104: RESEARCH METHODS

The purpose of this graduate level course in research methods is to prepare students for performing and executing effective research studies in their specialization areas. The course is designed to provide an extensive knowledge on designing scientific inquiries, identifying interesting research problems, selecting research methods, and techniques used in social sciences, in general, and in Business Economics, in particular. Both quantitative research designs and qualitative research designs will be discussed and detailed explanation of various research methods, i.e., surveys, case studies, and experiments, in relation to social sciences will be provided. In addition, a thorough training in academic writing and referencing style will be provided towards the end of the course. At the end, the students should be able to develop a research proposal of their prospective study.

MBE 5105: APPLIED ECONOMETRICS

The course intends to provide an intermediate knowledge and skills in econometrics that enables students to understand the modern empirical economics and business management literature.  The course begins with basic methods for analysis of economic data and simple regression formulation and will progress gradually towards more specific techniques used for time-series and cross-sectional data. The areas covered under this course include estimation of simple regression models, estimation of multiple regression models, remedial measures for multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation problems, qualitative response regression models, time-series econometrics and panel data regression models. The main feature of the course is the use of computer-based exercises, which will enable students to gain practical experience in analysing a wide variety of econometric applications and apply them to their own research works

Graduate Seminars in Business Economics

Graduate Seminars are supplementary progress seminar series offered for MPhil. students where their research progress would be assessed on a monthly basis. For the entire course each student should present their research progress at four graduate seminars.

MBE 6001 : GRADUATE SEMINAR IN BUSINESS ECONOMICS I

This is a supplementary lecture series offered for the students of the MPhil. programme. Students are expected to present their research progress at the graduate seminar and the supervisors of the presenting students will chair the session. The MPhil coordinator may invite other supervisors or experts to provide comments at this seminar. Thus, the seminar will assist graduate students by providing critical reviews, inputs, and feedbacks for their research works from the peer graduate students and their supervisors. This graduate seminar meets once a month in the second semester of the Year One and five seminars will be held in this semester.

MBE 6002 : GRADUATE SEMINAR IN BUSINESS ECONOMICS II

This is a continuation of the Graduate Seminar in Business Economics I. Students are expected to present their analytical findings at the graduate seminar and the supervisors of the presenting students will chair the session. This graduate seminar meets once a month in the second semester of the Year Two and five seminars will be held in this semester.

Please note that the principal and co-supervisor of the student need to participate in these progress meetings. If required contents are not covered during the Graduate Seminar II the final result would be “Fail and Incomplete”. The evaluation criteria of Graduate Seminar are as follows;

The final result of Graduate Seminars will be published as “Pass” or “Fail”.

  • Marks >50: “Pass”
  • Marks <50: “Fail”

MBE 6003: DISSERTATION

This is an independent research developed by the student under the supervision of an academic member/s appointed by the university under the recommendation of the Board of Study BOS. The objective of this is to guide the students to apply the underlying principles in research methodology in Business Economics research and guide them to analyze research problems using quantitative/qualitative methods and derive recommendations.