ECX5470 - Restrictive trade practices

Leader: Professor Peter Forsyth

Offered

Clayton First semester 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

Outline of the Australian and overseas approaches to competition policy; the economic background to the Trade Practices Act; market definition issues; evaluation of restrictive trade practices and mergers or alliances; structural reform of industries, access and monopoly regulation.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 30%
Examination (3 hours): 70%

Contact hours

Three contact hours per week

Prohibitions

ECC4700