ARESEC 242
Methods in Quantitative Policy Analysis in Agricultural, Food, and Other Markets
ARE242 is the first field class in the Agricultural Economics and Policy sequence in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. The first half covers the applied industrial organization and applied structural econometrics methods of quantitative policy analysis motivated by demand, production, and industrial organization theory. The second half covers reduced-from-quantitative methods motivated by production theory and applied to papers ranging in coverage from global agricultural supply to field-level supply.
Topics
- Teach structural industrial organization models of demand and supply Estimate and use the applied industrial organization models for quantitative policy analysis Teach reduced-from-quantitative methods motivated by production theory Learn and replicate applied papers ranging in coverage from global agricultural supply to field-level supply. Learn and expand the tools used in applied quantitative policy analysis with demand and supply models. Be able to code, estimate, expand and interpret results from models of demand behavior in food and retail markets Be able to code, estimate, expand and interpret results from models of supply behavior in food and retail markets Be able to code, estimate, expand and interpret results from models of entry of firms in food and retail markets Be able to read and interpret the most recent literature in quantitative analysis of demand and supply side policies in food, retail and agricultural sectors
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027