ECON377 Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
Updated: 17 April 2009| Credit Points | 6 | |||||||||
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| Online level | Level C - Internet access required | |||||||||
| Intensive School(s) | None | |||||||||
| Supervised Exam | There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled. | |||||||||
| Pre-requisites | ECON101 or QM161 | |||||||||
| Co-requisites | None | |||||||||
| Restrictions | ECON477 | |||||||||
| Notes | None | |||||||||
| Combined Units |
ECON477 - Efficiency and Productivity Analysis |
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| Coordinator(s) | Euan Fleming (efleming@une.edu.au) | |||||||||
| Unit Description |
This unit is designed to provide students with the skills required to measure performance in complex multi-input, multi-output firms and organisations. The main empirical methods used will be index numbers, stochastic frontier analysis, distance functions and data envelopment analysis. A variety of case studies will be analysed, including electricity supply, railways, hospitals, banks and agriculture. Students will learn how to measure and decompose productivity differences into various components, including technical efficiency, allocative efficiency, scale efficiency and technological change. This unit comprises up to 26 lecture hours, 12 laboratory/12 tutorial hours. |
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| Prescribed Material Mandatory |
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Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material
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| Disclaimer | Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester. |