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. It isn't offered in 2023. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2023
- Not offered
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
The 2027 handbook has no page for ECC4840. This is its 2023 entry, the latest one.
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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 2023 handbook.
Enrolment rules
You must be enrolled in course B3701 or B6001 to undertake this unit.
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 2023
The 2023 handbook lists no offerings for ECC4840.
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
- Teaching approachResearch activities
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.
This unit allows you to develop your research skills by engaging in structured inquiry using a systematic approach and discipline-specific methodologies.
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ECC4840?
ECC4840 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ECC4840 offered?
ECC4840 has no offerings listed in the 2023 handbook.
How much work is ECC4840?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.