| Ansvarligt institut | Fødevareøkonomisk Institut | ||||||||||||||
| Forskeruddannelsesprogram | Applied Economics (AECON) | ||||||||||||||
| Kursusdatoer | December 1st 2010 - March 31th 2011 | ||||||||||||||
| Kursus resumé | The course introduces contemporary methods for efficiency analysis and production analysis in general. It includes econometric estimation of production and cost functions and interpretation of estimation results, It also includes SFA and DEA analysis, and the software R to be used as the tool for analysis, | ||||||||||||||
| Kursustilmelding | To sign up for the course, please send an e-mail to Lars Otto at lars@foi.dk | ||||||||||||||
| Deadline for tilmelding | January 10, 2011 | ||||||||||||||
| Pointværdi | 5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Kursustype | Ph.d.-kursus | ||||||||||||||
| Rammer for Undervisning | Teaching takes place at Institute og Food and Resource Economics, Rolighedsvej 25, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C | ||||||||||||||
| Undervisningssprog | Engelsk | ||||||||||||||
| Kursusindhold | |||||||||||||||
| Econometric estimation of production functions, interpretation of estimation results. Econometric estimation of cost functions and profit functions, interpretation of estimation results. Functional forms: Cobb-Douglas, Translog. Efficiency analysis, including DEA, statistical uncertainty in DEA, Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), Distance functions | |||||||||||||||
| Undervisningsform | |||||||||||||||
| Private studies of recommended literature including excersises, and individual supervision. Follow relevant lecturs in the two courses Applied Production Analysis and Agribusiness Economics II. | |||||||||||||||
| Målbeskrivelse | |||||||||||||||
| After completing the course the students should be able to describe approaches in econometric production analysis based on production functions, cost functions, and profit functions, to apply econometric production analysis using real data and interpret the results, and to use econometric production analysis to analyse questions relevant for the agribusiness sector. the student will be able to apply DEA and SFA using R on real data and real applications, and to choose a relevant form for efficiency analysis. | |||||||||||||||
| Litteraturhenvisninger | |||||||||||||||
| Peter Bogetoft and Lars Otto (2011): Benchmarking with DEA, SFA, and R. Springer Verlag | |||||||||||||||
| Kursusmateriale | |||||||||||||||
| R manual | |||||||||||||||
| Kursusansvarlig | |||||||||||||||
| Lars Otto, lo@foi.dk, Fødevareøkonomisk Institut/Faggruppe for Produktion og Teknologi, Tlf: 353-36886 | |||||||||||||||
| Andre forlæsere | |||||||||||||||
| Arne Henningsen | |||||||||||||||
| Deltagerbetaling | |||||||||||||||
| There is no course fee for PhD students from Danish universities. All others must pay a fee of 12.000 DKK | |||||||||||||||
| Kursus omkostninger | |||||||||||||||
| No course costs except buying tetbooks | |||||||||||||||
| Evalueringsform | |||||||||||||||
| In order to pass the course, the participants must hand in a 10-15 page report at the end of the course and defend it an an oral examination | |||||||||||||||
| Kursusbeskrivelsesomfang | |||||||||||||||
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| Andre bemærkninger | |||||||||||||||
| This is an ad hoc PhD course | |||||||||||||||