AEC 932
Information Economics and Institutions in Agriculture and Natural Resources

The course is based on the notion that 900-level courses in the Department should help students: (a) become familiar with the current literature in specific areas of agricultural economics, particularly on analytic techniques that cut across several fields and (b) develop students' skills in using these analytic tools to a level where the students can apply these techniques in their dissertation (and post-dissertation) research. The course builds on concepts such as the principal-agent problem formulation of asymmetric information issues, the high-execulsion cost of certain types of information, and transaction costs that are first introduced in AEC 800, AEC 810, AEC 841, and EC 812B.


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