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Fall |
Spring |
AEC
810: Institutional and
Behavioral Economics
3 Credits. Relationships among institutions, individual
and collective actions, and economic performance. Public choice, property
rights, and behavioral theories of firms and bureaucracies. |
X |
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AEC
817: Political Economy of Agricultural and Trade Policy
3 Credits. Concepts of policy analysis and decision. Agricultural
sector problems, behavior, and policy in the development process. Macroeconomic
and trade impacts. International policies affecting trade and development.
Current policy issues. Recommended background: EC 805 or EC 812A; EC 809
or EC 813A. (Fall Semester scheduling provisional) |
X |
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AEC
829: The Economics of Environmental
Resources
3 Credits. Economic principles related to environmental
conflicts and public policy alternatives. Applications to water quality,
land use, conservation, development, and global environmental issues. Interdepartmental
with Economics, Forestry, Park, Recreation and Tourism Resources, Resource
Development. Administered by the Department of Agricultural Economics. |
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X |
AEC
835: Introductory Econometrics
3 Credits. Estimation and interpretation of multiple
regression models and their modifications when usual assumptions are not
valid. Applications focus on problems faced by agricultural economists.
Recommended background: STT 430. |
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X |
AEC
841: Analysis of Food System
Organization and Performance
3 Credits. Industrial organization, subsector, and transaction
cost approaches to analyzing coordination and performance of agricultural
markets, contracting, and integration in the food systems of industrialized
and developing countries. Applications to issues of organization, control,
and public policy. |
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X |
AEC
845: Commodity Market Analysis
3 Credits. Applied econometric analysis of commodity markets.
Emphasis on specification and estimation of demand and supply models for
forecasting. Modeling for policy evaluation. Futures and options markets.
Microcomputer applications. Recommended background: AEC 835. |
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X |
AEC
851: Agribusiness Operations
Management
3 Credits. Managerial processes for planning and controlling
agricultural firms. Applications of financial concepts, budgets, simulations,
and cognitive and information systems to developed and developing countries.
Predictive and prescriptive analysis. |
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X |
AEC
853: Financial Management in
Agriculture
3 Credits. Financial and investment analysis tools and
concepts and their application to decisions faced by agricultural, agribusiness,
and food industry firms. Financial institutions and instruments, credit
programs, and financial sector performance in low-income and high-income
countries. |
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X |
AEC
855: Agricultural
Production Economics
3 Credits. Analysis of production models using econometrics,
mathematical programming, and simulation. Systems science perspective. Recommended
background: (EC 801 and EC 805) and (AEC 835 or EC 818) *Background correction
pending approval. |
X |
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AEC
857: Strategic Management in
Agribusiness
3 Credits. Managerial problems faced by agribusiness
firms. Strategies to interpret and respond to forces affecting the industry.
Case study approach. Alias: AEC 891A |
X |
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AEC
861: Agriculture in Economic
Development
3 Credits. Role of agriculture in economic development
of low- and middle-income countries. Theories of agricultural growth. Policy
issues. Case studies. |
X |
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AEC
865: Agricultural Benefit-Cost
Analysis
3 Credits. Benefit-cost analysis of agricultural and natural
resource projects, including financial and economic analysis. Case studies
in project design and appraisal in low and high income countries. |
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X |
AEC
874: Field Data Collection
and Analysis
3 Credits. Designing and conducting socioeconomic surveys
to inform agricultural production, marketing, and environment/natural resource
issues in developed and developing countries. Research proposal preparation,
questionnaire design, sampling, data collection, and data processing and
analysis using computers. Recommended background: AEC 861. |
Summer
odd years |
AEC 890: Independent
Study
Variable from 1 to 3 Credits. Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 8 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions: Open only to graduate students in Agricultural Economics.
Approval of department. Independent study of selected topics in agricultural
economics. |
X |
X |
AEC 891, Section 001: Environmental Economics Methods
3 Credits, Fall 2005. Instructor: F. Lupi. For students majoring in Environmental and Resource Economics. Prerequisites: EC 805 and AEC 835 or equivalent. |
X |
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AEC 891: Topics
in Agricultural Economics (MTC)
Variable from 1 to 3. Advanced topics such as price
analysis, finance, risk and modeling techniques, agri-food systems, environmental
economics and management, and agricultural and natural resource development
and policy. Reenrollment Information: A student may earn a maximum of 12
credits in all enrollments for this course. Restrictions: Open only to Ph.D.
students in the colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Business,
and Social Science; or with department approval. |
X |
X |
AEC 898: Master's
Research (Plan B)
Variable from 1 to 4 Credits. Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions: Open only to master's students in the Agricultural Economics
major. Approval of department. Master's degree Plan B research. |
X |
X |
AEC 899: Master's
Thesis Research
Variable from 1 to 6 credits. Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 99 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions: Open only to master's students in the Agricultural Economics
major. Approval of department. Master's thesis research. |
X |
X |
AEC
923: Advanced Environmental
and Resource Economics
3 Credits. Advanced economic theory of environmental management
and policy. Treatment of externalities and market and non-market approaches
to environmental improvement. Topics in conservation and sustainable economic
growth. Applications to research and policy. Interdepartmental With: Economics,
Forestry, Park, Recreation and Tourism Resources, and Resource Development.
Administered By: Agricultural Economics. Recommended background: (AEC 829
and EC 812A) *Background change submitted for approval. |
X |
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AEC
925: Advanced Natural Resource
Economics
3 Credits. Economic theory of managing nonrenewable and
renewable resources, including optimal use, the incentives for use under
decentralized markets, and public policy design. Analysis of the co-evolution
of economic and ecological systems. Interdepartmental
With: Economics, Forestry, Park, Recreation and Tourism Resources, and
Resource Development. Administered By: Agricultural Economics. Recommended
background: (EC 812A and AEC 829 and FOR 866). *Changes in course title
and description submitted for approval. |
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X |
AEC
930: Dynamic Analysis in Agriculture and Natural Resources
3 Credits. Methods of dynamic optimization and their
application to agricultural and natural resources problems. Discrete time
dynamic programming, calculus of variations, and discrete time maximum principle.
Alias: AEC 991E. Restrictions: Open only to Ph.D. students in the College
of Agriculture and Natural Resources or College of Business or College of
Social Science or approval of department. Recommended
background: (EC 801 and EC 812A) |
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X |
AEC
932: Information Economics
and Institutions in Agriculture and Natural Resources
3 Credits. Applications to issues in agriculture, agribusiness,
the food system, natural resources, and the environment. Asymmetric information,
incomplete markets, principal/agent issues, transaction costs, and the design
of contracts and other institutions.
Open only to Ph.D. students in the Colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources
or Business or Social Science. |
X |
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AEC
977: Professional Practice in Agricultural Economics
3 Credits. Matching appropriate tools to applied problems
in agricultural and resource economics. Individual and team preparation,
under tight deadlines, of professional analyses and oral presentations for
diverse audiences. Use of peer review. Alias: AEC 947. Restrictions: Open
only to Ph.D. students in the Department of Agricultural Economics or Department
of Economics. |
|
X |
AEC
978: Research Methodologies
in Agricultural Economics
3 Credits. Alternative research philosophies, types of knowledge,
and kinds of research. Critical appraisal of facts, theories, and values
in economic research. Testing and communication of research results. Development
of a research proposal. Alias: AEC 991F. Restrictions: Open only to Ph.D.
students in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources or College
of Business or College of Social Science. |
|
X |
AEC 991: Advanced
Topics in Agricultural Economics (MTC)
Variable from 1 to 3. Advanced topics such as price
analysis, finance, risk and modeling techniques, agri-food systems, environmental
economics and management, and agricultural and natural resource development
and policy. Reenrollment Information: A student may earn a maximum of 12
credits in all enrollments for this course. Restrictions: Open only to Ph.D.
students in the colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Business,
and Social Science; or with department approval. |
X |
X |
AEC 999: Doctoral
Dissertation Research
Variable from 1 to 24. Reenrollment Information: A student
may earn a maximum of 99 credits in all enrollments for this course. Restrictions:
Open only to Ph.D. students in Agricultural Economics. Approval of department. |
X |
X |
