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Agricultural Economics (AGEC)
AGEC 5423 Agribusiness Management Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
AGEC 5603 Advanced Agricultural Finance Prerequisites: AGEC 3603 or FIN 3113, ECON 3023 or ECON 3113 and STAT 2023 or equivalent. Description: Advanced investment and financial management concepts applied firms that operate in the agricultural sector. Incorporating uncertainty and risk into financial modeling and decision making via stochastic simulation and other tools. Risk/return tradeoff for stocks, portfolio management and business investments. May not be used for degree credit with AGEC 4613. Same course as AGEC 4613. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5703 Economics of Agriculture and Food Policy Prerequisites: AGEC 4703 and AGEC 5103. Description: Application of welfare criteria and economic analysis to agricultural, food, and rural development problems and policies. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5713 Rural Regional Analysis Prerequisites: AGEC 5103. Description: Concepts of market and nonmarket based rural welfare; theories of regional growth as applied to rural areas; methods of regional analysis including computable general equilibrium; analysis of policies and programs for improving welfare of rural population groups. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5723 Plan & Pol Devlpmnt Prerequisites: Master's-level microeconomics, macroeconomics and regression analysis. Description: Economics of market-based planning and policy analysis for developing countries, topics and tools in macro- and microeconomics of development, and social cost-benefit and project analysis with emphasis on agricultural and public policy. Hands-on application of econometrics, input-output analysis and cost-benefit analysis using econometric software. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5733 Food Import Demand and Trade Policy Description: Global welfare analysis of national food and agricultural trade and development policies of developed and developing countries. Analysis of import demand systems using real world data and incorporating economic and demographic variables. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics
Description: Application of quantitative analysis to the evaluation of business plans for agribusiness firms. Preparation of business plans, including mission statements, financial analyses, marketing plans, personnel and organization requirements of the firm, production and operations plans as well as a contingency plan. Analysis of risk factors associated with agriculturally-based companies. No credit for students with credit in AGEC 4423. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture
Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5463 Advanced Agricultural Cooperatives Prerequisites: AGEC 3463 or consent of instructor.
Description: Advanced understanding of cooperative business model and management skills. Advanced cooperative finance including profit center analysis, equity management, working capital management, budgeting and capital budgeting. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5483 Bio-Energy Feasibility and Commercialization Prerequisites: AGEC 1113 or ECON 2103. Description: Feasibility and commercialization of bio-fuel and bio-based projects. Issues and processes in transitioning a project from pilot scale into commercialization. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 5503 Economics of Natural and Environmental Resource Policy Prerequisites: AGEC 4503, ECON 3113, or ECON 3023; and MATH 2103. Description: Economics of long-term resource use with particular emphasis on agricultural and environmental problems. Methods for estimation of nonmarket prices. Cost benefits analysis of long-term natural resource use and environmental policy. Elementary computer simulation of long-term resource use and environmental policy. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics
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