Courses: Analysis of Agricultural policies: Syllabus

  COURSE CONTENT  

1. Supply and demand – review of microeconomics, elasticity, taxes, subsidies, price controls
2. Welfare economics
3. International trade policy: tariffs, export subsidies in small and large countries
4. Non-tariff measures
5. Price support, production quotas, deficiency payments
6. Direct payments, decoupling, Public Goods, Externalities
7. MIDTERM, Price support, production controls,
8. EU agricultural policy
9. EU agricultural policy: preferential trade agreements in agriculture
10. Political economy of the agricultural policy
11. Agricultural policy in the USA
12. Agricultural policies in developing countries
13. Food and nutritional security
14. FINAL

  GRADING

Active participation at seminars and lectures and homeworks            20 %
Paper, due 12th week of semester                                                    10 %
Midterm, 7th week                                                                            35 %
Final, 13th week                                                                                35 %

  REQUIRED READINGS

Pokrivcak,J., and Ruppel Fred, International Trade and Policy. SPU University Press.

This syllabus is tentative and subject to change by instructors.