The course addresses the following questions: What are the advantages and limitations of experimental economics? How important are deviations from the assumptions of full rationality and strict self-interest in determining outcomes of economic interaction? It is argued that identifying...

Firms must transform production processes towards sustainable technologies in response to climate change and the emergence of policies aiming to curb carbon emissions. The energy shock due to the war in Ukraine renders this transformation not only important, but also urgent. All this requires...

The Annual Meeting and Business Forum offer a dynamic programme of events and panel discussions attracting prominent participants from around the world, ranging from leading government officials, financial and corporate executives to entrepreneurs, civil society, and international...

The seminar invites an international scientific audience in the fields of agricultural and resource economics, regional economics, political economy, institutional economics, political science and other relevant disciplines. Topics: - Two decades transition and development: experiences, theories...

The seminar aims at constituting an opportunity to highlight the adverse effects for the agro-food sector and rural economy due to the recent financial crisis and food markets speculation, to measure and evaluate the depth of the damage in the affected areas, to develop and discuss solutions and...

The seminar will focus on empirical applications on the study of governance of food and fibre value chains. Emphasis is on applications using various methodologies such as econometrics, simulations, experimental economics, networks, mathematical programming case studies, applied theory, and...

The course includes the topics: - Introduction to central concepts: vector autoregressive processes, error-correction models, non-stationary processes and cointegration. - Representation of cointegrated processes. - Estimation and testing in the cointegrated VAR model. - Identification and...

This course introduces topics from research in financial time series econometrics. For each topic, econometric methods are discussed and illustrated by empirical applications. After completion of the course the student will have obtained a fundamental knowledge of central econometric modeling as...

Students learn how the toolbox of experimental economics can be used in research, and learn to be critical consumers of the rapidly growing behavioral and experimental economics literature. More generally, the course contributes to a deeper understanding of the basic principles of rationality...

Investment projects typically consist of an initial investment and some uncertain dividend. An example could be to build a factory and sell the produce at an uncertain market price. In the course investment projects are seen as flexible in the sense that investor is able to decide when to invest...