ECC5470 Competition, regulation and policy
Faculty of Business and Economics
ECC5470 Competition, regulation and policy is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Business and Economics, offered in 2020 in Semester 1 at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Semester 1
- Clayton
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
The 2027 handbook has no page for ECC5470. This is its 2020 entry, the latest one.
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Overview
The unit deals with the Australian and overseas approaches to competition policy. The economic background to the Competition and Consumer Act is considered in conjunction with economic policy debates. Market structures with substantial market power are viewed as a pretext to evaluation and regulation of restrictive trade practices and mergers or alliances. Structural reform of public utility industries, access to essential facilities, and monopoly regulation are discussed from the theoretical and contemporary reform perspectives.
Offerings in 2020
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Clayton | Evening |
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
understand and analyse critically the economic reasons for government intervention to reduce the adverse effects of restrictive trade practices
- 2
understand the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (and its predecessor, the Trade Practices Commission)
- 3
evaluate recent decisions from the perspectives of an economist, lawyer, policy-maker and business manager
- 4
research in-depth a current problem area relating to competition policy and practices that requires investigation beyond topics covered in lectures.
Workload and teaching
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
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Gennadi Kazakevitch
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Gennadi Kazakevitch
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ECC5470?
ECC5470 has no prerequisites.
When is ECC5470 offered?
In 2020, ECC5470 runs in Semester 1 at Clayton.
How much work is ECC5470?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 5
- Study level
- Postgraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Economics
- Organisational unit
- Department of Economics
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 3
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 2020