ECON 3516 - Industrial Organisation III
North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2019
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General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code ECON 3516 Course Industrial Organisation III Coordinating Unit Economics Term Semester 2 Level Undergraduate Location/s North Terrace Campus Units 3 Contact Up to 3 hours per week Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Y Assumed Knowledge ECON 2506 Assessment Typically a project, assignments, mid-semester test & final exam Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Associate Professor Paul Pezanis-Christou
Office location: Nexus 10, Level 4, Room 4.09
Telephone: 8313.4928Course Timetable
The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.
Wed.: 1:00-2:00 (Napier 209, Lecture Theatre)
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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain how price and non-price competition among firms affect economic welfare.
- Explain how market structure affects behaviour and vice versa.
- Analyse and evaluate models of monopoly, oligopoly and competitive markets.
- Analyse basic antitrust and regulatory policy issues.
University Graduate Attributes
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:
University Graduate Attribute Course Learning Outcome(s) Deep discipline knowledge
- informed and infused by cutting edge research, scaffolded throughout their program of studies
- acquired from personal interaction with research active educators, from year 1
- accredited or validated against national or international standards (for relevant programs)
1-4 Critical thinking and problem solving
- steeped in research methods and rigor
- based on empirical evidence and the scientific approach to knowledge development
- demonstrated through appropriate and relevant assessment
1-4 Career and leadership readiness
- technology savvy
- professional and, where relevant, fully accredited
- forward thinking and well informed
- tested and validated by work based experiences
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Learning Resources
Recommended Resources
Introduction to Industrial Organization, L. Cabral, MIT Press, 2000.
Modern Industrial Organization, by D. Carlton and J. Perloff, Pearson Addison Wesley, 4th Edition, 2005.
Industrial Organisation: A Strategic Approach, by J. Church and R. Ware, McGraw-Hill, 2000. Freely available at: http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~jrchurch/page4/page5/page5.htmlOnline Learning
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Learning & Teaching Activities
Learning & Teaching Modes
LECTURES: The purpose of the lectures is to provide a logical structure for the topics that make up the course, to emphasize the important concepts and methods of each topic, and to provide relevant examples to which the concepts and methods are applied.
TUTORIALS: The purpose of the tutorial meetings is primarily to provide an opportunity for small group discussion of the economic concepts and methods, and to use those concepts and methods to understand applied problems (the exercises) which are assigned every week.Workload
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
Students of this course are expected to:
· attend all lectures and all tutorials
· commit approximately 8 hours per week to private study, that is, outside regular classes.Learning Activities Summary
A tentative list of topics to be covered in the course is the following:Week Topic 1 Introduction and review of main concepts 2 Monopoly: Sources of Market Power 3 Monopoly: Non-Linear Pricing and Price Discrimination 4 Static Models of Oligopoly 5 Dynamic Models of Oligopoly 6 Product Differentiation 7 Entry Deterrence 8 Mid-Term exam 9 Antitrust Economics: Predatory Pricing 10 Antitrust Economics: Vertical Integration and Vertical Restraints 11 Antitrust Economics: Horizontal Concentration 12 Regulatory Economics: Optimal Pricing for Natural Monopoly
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Assessment
The University's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:
- Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
- Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
- Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
- Assessment must maintain academic standards.
Assessment Summary
Mid-Term Examination: Weight: 30%, Learning objectives assessed: 1 to 4
This exam will be held in Week 6 during lecture time (same venue). It will assess the topics covered in Weeks 1 to 5 and will consist of exercises to be solved and short answer questions.
Tutorials: Weight: 30%, Learning objectives assessed: 1 to 4
Every week, there will be an assignment of exercises. Students are expected to do the assigned exercises and to submit their answers and solutions online at precise dates and time (to be determined at the start of the semester). See the Assessment Detail section below for the grading of assignments and the determination of the tutorial grade.
Final Examination: Weight: 40%, Learning objectives assessed: 1 to 4
This exam will be held in the University examination period and will be three hours long. It will be on materials from the entire course though approximately 70% of the questions will be from post-midterm topics.Assessment Related Requirements
In order to pass this course, students must achieve:
- a composite mark of at least 50 out of 100
- at least 45 out 100 in the final exam.
Assessment Detail
Mid-Term Examination: Failure to sit the mid-term examination will result in receiving zero points, whether a medical certificate is provided or not. The grade of the final exam will then account for 80% of the overall grade.
Tutorials: Every week, the tutor will randomly select one of the assigned exercises to be grade. The grade for the selected exercise will be 0, 1, 3 or 5, depending on the quality of the answer provided. Particular attention will be given to the work out of the exercise’s solutions. The solutions’ work out will be ‘documented’ if it shows the details of the calculations performed (if any) and the reasoning used to reach the reported answers or solutions.
The grading rule to be used is: 0: no attempt to do the selected exercise, 1: a majority of incorrect or undocumented answers, 3: a majority of correct and documented answers, 5: all answers are documented and correct.
Attendance to the tutorial meetings is compulsory. If, owing to exceptional circumstances, you are unable to attend your usual tutorial, you may try to attend another tutorial in the same week. Occasional absence will be tolerated only once during the semester. If you are unable to attend a tutorial for medical reasons, you should provide a medical certificate. If the medical certificate covers a period longer than a week, you will need to organise some other arrangements with the lecturer. The same applies if you provide more than two medical certificates during the semester. Collaboration on assignments is allowed and encouraged, but final solutions must be written independently. Each student should participate fully in solving each problem and understand the answer.
The grade for the tutorial is determined by the average of the eight best grades obtained for the assignment.
Final Examination: This exam will be held in the University examination period and will be two hours long. It will be on materials from the entire course though approximately 70% of the questions will be from post-midterm topics.Submission
No late assignments will be accepted. Failure to hand in an assignment will result in a zero mark. Assignments must be handed in at the Professions Student Hub, located at Nexus 10 (corner of Pulteney St and North Tce) No assignment will be collected by your lecturer.
Each assignment should include a signed copy of the University’s cover sheet.
Assignments will be handed back at tutorials meetings. The last assignment will be available for collection at the hub only.
There will be no alternative assessment opportunities.Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme) Grade Mark Description FNS Fail No Submission F 1-49 Fail P 50-64 Pass C 65-74 Credit D 75-84 Distinction HD 85-100 High Distinction CN Continuing NFE No Formal Examination RP Result Pending Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.
Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.
Final results for this course will be made available through Access Adelaide.
Additional Assessment
If a student receives 45-49 for their final mark for the course they will automatically be granted an additional assessment. This will most likely be in the form of a new exam (Additional Assessment) and will have the same weight as the original exam unless an alternative requirement (for example a hurdle requirement) is stated in this semester’s Course Outline. If, after replacing the original exam mark with the new exam mark, it is calculated that the student has passed the course, they will receive 50 Pass as their final result for the course (no higher) but if the calculation totals less than 50, their grade will be Fail and the higher of the original mark or the mark following the Additional Assessment will be recorded as the final result. -
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