Honours - Area of study Economics

To complete the economics major in the Honours degree of Bachelor of Commerce, the Honours degree of Bachelor of Economics or the Bachelor of Economics Advanced with Honours, students must complete:

(a.) Three compulsory units (24 points):

• ECC4650 Microeconomics
• ECC4660 Macroeconomics
• ECC4860 Applied economics research paper (12 points)

(b.) A maximum of four units (24 points) from the following list:

• ECC4670 Development economics
• ECC4690 International trade
• ECC4700 Competition, regulation and policy
• ECC4710 Post-Keynesian economics
• ECC4720 Law and economics
• ECC4750 Financial economics
• ECC4790 Project evaluation
• ECC4810 Public economics
• ECC4830 Welfare economics
• ECC4840 Economics of industry, institution and organisation
• ECC4870 Health economics
• ECC4990 Economic evaluation of health services
• ETC4430 Quantitative economic policy

Students can vary this list subject to the following conditions:

• a maximum of two fourth year units from the departments of Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Law and Taxation, or from the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics where one of these units can be a third year unit, provided it is ETC3410 Applied Econometrics.
• a maximum of one third year-level unit from the Department of Economics
• a maximum of one honours unit from another faculty where it is complementary to the honours program offered by the Department of Economics.

These units can be identified using the browse units toolbrowse units tool (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/search) in the current edition of the handbook. The level of the unit is indicated by the first number in the unit code; honours units are those that commence with the number 4.

Students must have their enrolment approved by the head, or nominee, of the Department of Economics.