| Forest & Landscape | |||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | |||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1 semester | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | evaluation of project report Aid allowed Description of Examination: pass/fail, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Regular lectures by the course instructor(s). Two presentations by each student: a) one on a theoretical subject, selected in consultation with the instructor(s); b) one presentation on an applied case-study project which the studentsR | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | 3-week course June | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 095513 Agricultural Marketing Economic Theory (095221) or Equivalents | ||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||
| The purpose of the course is to provide an introduction to the New-Institutional Economics framework and its applications mainly on agriculture, Agribusiness, and Cooperatives - related problems. Topics covered: theory of institutions, transaction costs, the theory of agency, theory of property rights and theory of collective action. There will be several applications examined in agriculture and agribusiness-related problems such as agricultural contracts and vertical coordination. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||
| The Food industry consists a major part not only of the agricultural sector at large, but of the Danish economy as well. The economic organisation of this industry and the role of cooperatives is the focus of this course. There will be several applications examined in agriculture and agribusiness-related problems: agricultural contracts, vertical coordination and organisation in the Agri-Food chain, cooperatives. | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| There will be regular lectures by the course instructor. Students will have to make also two presentations each: a) one on a theoretical subject, selected in consultation with the instructor; b) one presentation on an applied case-study project which the students will have to prepare from a list of topics provided by the instructor. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||
| Milgrom and Roberts (1992): "Economics, Organization, and Management", Prentice Hall | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Kostas Karantininis, kok@life.ku.dk, Institute of Food and Resource Economics/Production and Technology Division, Phone: 35332276 | |||||||||||||||
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