Postgraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2024-2025
Module ECON44215: INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION
Department: Economics
ECON44215: INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION
| Type | Tied | Level | 4 | Credits | 15 | Availability | Available in 2024/2025 | Module Cap |
|---|
| Tied to | L1T109 |
|---|---|
| Tied to | L1T409 |
| Tied to | L1T609 |
Prerequisites
- None
Corequisites
- None
Excluded Combination of Modules
- None
Aims
- To develop advanced knowledge and analytical skills in the theory and practice of industrial organisation.
Content
- The module focuses on market structures, strategic interaction between firms, and competition policy, in particular regulation. Topics may include:
- Imperfect competition
- Monopolistic competition
- Oligopoly
- Contestable markets and barriers to entry
- Technology and innovation
- Government regulation and competition policy
Learning Outcomes
Subject-specific Knowledge:
- be able to interpret scholarly literature at the frontier of research in industrial organisation;
- have explored, understood and appreciated the complexity and contradictions of the current academic literature and its implications for professional practice, and be able to identify open questions for their own research in industrial organisation.
Subject-specific Skills:
- be able to apply advanced problem-solving and analytical skills to complex issues in industrial organisation;
- be able to offer policy recommendations in the field of industrial organisation informed by the knowledge and analytical skills acquired in the module.
Key Skills:
- Written Communication;
- Planning, Organising and Time Management;
- Problem Solving and Analysis;
- Using initiative;
- Numeracy;
- Computer Literacy.
Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module
- A combination of lectures, seminars and guided reading will contribute to achieving the aims and learning outcomes of this module. The seminars will train the students to solve analytical problems in the theory of industrial organisation, identify and critically discuss its applications as well as giving students opportunity to identify research questions.
- The written examination will primarily test students knowledge and critical understanding of the material covered in the module in addition to their analytical and problem-solving skills.
Teaching Methods and Learning Hours
| Activity | Number | Frequency | Duration | Total/Hours | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 10 | 1 per week | 2 hour | 20 | |
| Seminars | 4 | Fortnightly | 1 hour | 4 | ■ |
| Revision Session | 1 | Once | 2 hour | 2 | |
| Preparation & Reading | 124 | ||||
| Total | 150 |
Summative Assessment
| Component: Exam | Component Weighting: 100% | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Element | Length / duration | Element Weighting | Resit Opportunity |
| One in-person written examination | 2 hour | 100% | Same |
Formative Assessment:
One formative assessment to prepare students for the summative exam.
■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University