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AGEC 5103 Mathematical Economics Prerequisites: Differential calculus and ECON 3113. Description: Mathematical tools necessary for formulation and application of economic theory and economic models. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5113 Applications of Mathematical Programming Description: The application of concepts and principles of existing linear and nonlinear programming techniques to agricultural problems. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5203 Advanced Agricultural Prices Prerequisites: AGEC 5103, STAT 4043. Description: Demand and price structures, price discovery, time series and agricultural price research methods. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5213 Econometric Methods Prerequisites: AGEC 5103 and ECON 4213 or STAT 4043. Description: Application of econometric techniques to agricultural economic problems, theory and estimation of structural economic parameters. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5233 Primary Data Analysis in Economic Research Prerequisites: AGEC 5213 or ECON 5243 or concurrent enrollment. Description: Development and analysis of surveys and experiments designed to collect primary data for economic research. Basics of survey and experimental design, survey delivery and sampling. Methods, economics, and econometrics of valuation methods including contingent valuation, experimental auctions, factor analysis, cluster analysis and structural equations modeling, including limited dependent variable models such as the logit, probit, ordered probit, multinomial logit, tobit and intervalcensored regression. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics

AGEC 5311 Agricultural Marketing: Concepts and Tools Prerequisites: ECON 3113, MATH 2103 or MATH 2144 and STAT 2023 or equivalent. Description: Role of markets and prices in the food system. Price variation across space, time, and form. Previously offered as AGEC 5303. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5321 Agricultural Marketing and Economic Development Prerequisites: AGEC 5311. Description: Role of marketing in economic development, focusing on international economics; role of institutions in a market economy. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5331 Agricultural Marketing: Advanced Concepts Prerequisites: AGEC 5311. Description: Advanced topics in price variation across space, time, and form. Market and firm efficiency. Market structure, conduct and performance; role of information in a market economy; and other selected topics. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5343 International Agricultural Markets and Trade Description: Contemporary international agricultural trade theory and applications. Broaden students' understanding of contemporary cultural and economic issues outside the U.S. that affect global demand. Gains from trade and the theory of comparative advantage. No credit for students with credit in AGEC 4343. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5403 Production Economics Prerequisites: AGEC 5103. Description: Analysis of micro-static production economics problems; factor-product, factor-factor and product-product relationships; functional forms for technical unit and aggregate production functions; maximizing and minimizing choice rules; firm cost structure; scale relationships. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics