Economics of Agricultural Markets

The main training goal is to develop essential expertise on national and international agricultural markets and basic skills in order to work professionally.
Specific goals concern expertise on:
- conceptual and methodological framework for economic analysis of agricultural markets;
- analysis tools for agricultural markets;
- main characteristics of national and international agricultural markets;
- agricultural price discovery both at national and international level;
- key data sources of market information and analysis.

Acquirable skills:
- understanding of agricultural markets functioning and characteristics (standards, contracts, derivatives, etc.);
- ability to obtain market information;
- ability to analyze price and production trends;
- market price data processing (validation, sorting, summarization, aggregation, classification, analysis, reporting)