COMPETITION, MARKET FAILURE AND GOVERNMENT

ECO3CMF

2014

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

This subject complements Consumers, Firms and Competition. Students completing both subjects will have a thorough grounding in markets, indivual behaviour and government responses to a range of market failures. Topics include general equilibrium, welfare economics and market failure, public goods and externalities, risk and decision theory, information asymmetry and contracts, and monopoly.

Faculty: Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Buly Cardak

Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG

Exchange Students: Yes

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: ECO2CFC or ECO2MIT or ECO2PPA

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: ECO3PPB

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Learning resources

Readings

Resource TypeTitleResource RequirementAuthor and YearPublisher
ReadingsMicroeconomics with Calculus. 2nd edition (TBC)RecommendedBrian R. Binger and Elizabeth HoffmanADDISON WESLEY
ReadingsMicroeconomics with Calculus. 2nd edition (TBC)RecommendedJeffrey M. PerloffPEARSON

Melbourne, 2014, Semester 1, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Buly Cardak

Class requirements

TutorialWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.0 hours tutorial per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.

LectureWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.0 hours lecture per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.

Assessments

Assessment elementComments%
0ne one hour mid semester exam20
One two hour final exam70
tutorial assessments10