Department of Economics
National Tsing Hua University enjoys the reputation of a democratic spirit and a highly scholastic environment. Consequently, the Department of Economics, established in 1984, has developed the unique tradition of being democratic and progressive. Being located in the heart of Taiwan's hi-tech industry, we have close collaboration with the Industrial Technology Research Institute, Science-Based Industry Park, and various public and private companies. The students have good opportunities to cultivate networks for their career development. The department currently has 22 full time faculty members, all received Ph.D degrees from internationally renowned universities and are committed to a rigorous analytical approach to both teaching and research. Engaged in congenial and cooperative atmosphere, our faculty members actively involve in other colleagues’ research. The department has shown strengths in various research areas including institutional economics, resource economics, and global economic analysis. While the faculty works in diverse fields, a common characteristic of their researches is the application of frontier theoretical and quantitative tools to the analysis of important practical issues, resulting in an achievement of publishing articles on internationally well-known journals.
The energetic economics program of the Department of Economics provides such distinguishing fields as economics of sociology, environmental economics, law and economics, new economic history, economic organization, public choice, constitutional political economy, economic analysis on globalization and entrepreneurship. In addition, the department offers conventional curriculums in microeconomics, macroeconomics, money and banking, public finance, industrial organization, labor economics, and international trade etc. The analytical courses of econometrics, time series analysis, game theory, and mathematical economics provide students with rigorous tools. To enhance job opportunities of our students, the department takes the responsibility in offering courses with business perspectives, such as accounting, financial market, futures and financial derivatives, and business law to both economics and non-economics majors at Tsing Hua. The undergraduate and graduate (both M.A. and Ph.D.) programs in Economics aim at both theory and application. The department has moved into the newly established "School of Science and Technology Management" in 2005. We believe that this adjustment of the department can not only shed new lights on economics research but also provide students with an excellent education in economics as a foundation for general understanding of the world.
