units
ECC2600
Faculty of Business and Economics
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.
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Level | Undergraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Business and Economics |
Organisational Unit | Department of Economics |
Offered | Clayton Second semester 2015 (Day) |
Coordinator(s) | Associate Professor Elias Khalil |
The unit covers the intersection of economics and psychology. The unifying theme is the role of "rationality" with respect to four behavioural clusters: temptations (over-eating); habits of thought (stereotyping); framing effects (is a pay raise too little given the expectation?); and motivational effects (persistence in the pursuit of a career or an ideology). The unit contrasts expected utility theory and its alternative and draws examples from behavioural finance (e.g. the equity premium puzzle which is about the lower than expected prices of financial assets) and from law (e.g. cheating in cooperative efforts). The unit includes laboratory contact hours for behavioural economics experiments.
The learning goals associated with this unit are to:
Within semester assessment: 50%
Examination: 50%
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.
See also Unit timetable information
MGC2600