Institute of Food and Resource Economics | |||||||||||||||||
Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year | ||||||||||||||||
Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||
Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||
Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||||||
Examination | Final Examination written examination Written Exam in Lecturehall All aids allowed Description of Examination: 4-hours written exam Project report Weight: 70% written exam 30% written report 13-point scale, internal examiner Dates of Exam: 26 January 2006 | ||||||||||||||||
Organisation of Teaching | Lectures Exercises Project Report | ||||||||||||||||
Block Placement | Block 2 Week Structure: C | ||||||||||||||||
Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||
Optional Prerequisites | Economics of the Food Industry Food Markets and Organization | ||||||||||||||||
Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||||
Basic Science: Elements of Basic Economics, and scientific methodology Applied Science: Applied industrial organization Organization of production, processing and distribution systems of food industries. Technology and efficiency Ethics & Values A part of this course is Industrial Policy. This gives the students the opportunity to learn applied welfare optimization. | |||||||||||||||||
Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||||
This course approaches the industry and markets of food products from an institutional - information economics perspective. It examines the food industry as chain or market and focuses on transactions, contracts, and organisations | |||||||||||||||||
Course Contents | |||||||||||||||||
Transaction Cost Economics Contract Theory Cooperatives Network Theory Agribusiness Strategy | |||||||||||||||||
Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||
The teaching is based on lectures that presents central elements of the course curricullum. Furthermore the students will work individual or in groups solving both practical and theoretical exercises. Also in groups the students will do project work under the supervision. There will be Food insustry visits duing the course. | |||||||||||||||||
Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||||
1. Bogetoft & Olesen, Design of Production Contracts: Lessons from Danish Agriculture, pp. 170. BS Press 2. Bogetoft & Olesen, Afregning I Andelsselskaber - teoretiske modeller og praktiske eksempler, DSR-Forlag, 2000, pp. 233. 3. Hendrikse, G., Economics and Managament of Organizations "Co-ordination, Motivation and Strategy", McGraw-Hill Education, 2004. | |||||||||||||||||
Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||
Henrik Ballebye Olesen, hbol@kvl.dk, Institute of Food and Resource Economics/Production and Technology Division, Phone: 3528 | |||||||||||||||||
Study Board | |||||||||||||||||
Study Committee NSN | |||||||||||||||||
Course Scope | |||||||||||||||||
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