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ECON6001: Microeconomic Analysis
2026 unit information
This unit in modern microeconomic theory has three purposes: (i) to enhance students' insights into the major ideas of modern microeconomics and develop the ability to apply these ideas; (ii) to develop students' facility with analytic economic models; and (iii) to develop students' ability to solve economic problems with the ideas, techniques, and models available to professional economists. Topics covered include (i) individual decision-making by economic agents; (ii) the determination of prices and resource allocation in competitive general equilibrium models; (iii) analysis of strategic environments; and (iv) contracting with imperfect information.
Unit details and rules
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| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Economics |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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ECON5001 or ECON5040 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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ECON6701 |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate a sound understanding of the structure of major microeconomic models of the decision problems facing individual consumers and firms, and the formal techniques commonly applied to solve them
- LO2. demonstrate both a formal and intuitive understanding of the results generated by these models, how they relate to underlying assumptions, and how they may change as a result of varying those assumptions
- LO3. demonstrate a knowledge of the criteria that may be used to evaluate the welfare properties of market allocations, and the conditions under which such allocations may be expected to be efficient
- LO4. possess a solid foundation for the subsequent application of microeconomic analysis to problems in specialist and applied fields of economics, including in independent research.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 1 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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Semester 2 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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