ECC4840 Industrial organisation
Faculty of Business and Economics
ECC4840 Industrial organisation is a level 4, 6-credit-point, undergraduate and postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Business and Economics, offered in 2020 in Semester 2 at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Semester 2
- Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 1 task
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2023 entry.
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Requisites
Before ECC4840
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After ECC4840
No unit lists ECC4840 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Students must be enrolled in course B3701 or B6001.
Equivalent units
The same content under another code. Only one of them counts.
Overview
Theories of the firm, contract, property rights structure, market structure, hierarchy, bargaining, principal-agent relationship, research and development, advertising, and entry, exit, and pricing strategy. The equilibrium implications of the internal organisation of a firm and the organisational structure of the market in relation to strategic interactions between agents, information problems and related incentive mechanisms. Basic game theory and concepts of game equilibrium applied to the analysis of opportunistic behaviour and related transactions costs.
Offerings in 2020
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Clayton | On campus |
Assessment
- Within semester assessment100%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
understand the modern developments of the theory of industrial organisation
- 2
understand intermediate microeconomics by incorporating information and endogenous transaction costs into analysis
- 3
undertake theoretical and empirical research in the field of industrial organisation.
Workload and teaching
- Lectures36 hours
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Dyuti Banerjee
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ECC4840?
ECC4840 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ECC4840 offered?
In 2020, ECC4840 runs in Semester 2 at Clayton.
How much work is ECC4840?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does ECC4840 have an exam?
No. ECC4840 has 1 assessment task and no exam.