Undergraduate, Postgraduate - UnitECC4700 - Competition, regulation and policy

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Economics
Offered	Clayton First semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Gennadi Kazakevitch

Synopsis

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

Outcomes

The learning objectives of this unit are to:

be able to understand and analyse critically the economic reasons for government intervention to reduce the adverse effects of restrictive trade practices
have an understanding of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (and its predecessor, the Trade Practices Commission)
be able to evaluate recent decisions from the perspectives of an economist, lawyer, policy-maker and business manager.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 30%
Examination: 70%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Gennadi Kazakevitch

Workload requirements

3 hours per week

Prohibitions

ECC5470, ECX5470