This page presents a selection of lecture slides and notes used in the class.
Lecture Notes table.
| LEC # |
TOPICS |
| Part I. Review of Economic Theory |
| 1 |
Introduction and Overview |
| 2 |
Fundamentals of Market Economics: Supply and Demand, Elasticity, etc. (PDF) |
| 3 |
Fundamentals of Market Economics (cont.): Common Property Resources, Economic Efficiency, Market Failure, etc. |
| 4 |
Economics of the Environment (PDF)
The Time Value of Money (PDF)
|
| 5 |
Economic Sustainability
Macroeconomics: National Income Accounting (PDF)
|
| Part II. Applications to Marine Industries |
| 6 |
Shipping Markets and Cycles |
| 7 |
Bulk Shipping
LNG Shipping (PDF)
|
| 8 |
Ship Charter/Purchase Decisions (Guest Lecture by Sydney Levine, Shipping Intelligence Inc.) |
| 9 |
Shipping and the Environment: Tanker Spills, Right Whales |
| 10 |
Liner Shipping and Ports
FPSOs, Fast Ferries, Fast Freight Ships (PDF)
|
| 11 |
Shipping Finance, Risk and Return (Guest Lecture by Kevin Hazel, Marsoft Inc. Files Courtesy of Marsoft. Used with Permission.) (PDF 1) (PDF 2) |
| 12 |
Student Presentations
Course Evaluation
|
| 13 |
Student Presentations (cont.)
Course Wrap-up
|