AGRIFOOD ECONOMICS AND POLICY

1. Basic elements of economic policy (1st ECTS - 8 hours)
- Normative models and economic policy.
- Goals of economic policy.
- Models of economic policy

2. Theory of Public choices (2nd ECTS - 8 hours)
- Public choices according to the theory of voting
- Public choices in relation with the social welfare function
- Public choices in representative democracies

3. Public intervention in agriculture (3rd ECTS - 8 hours)
- Instability and uncertainty in agriculture
- Reasons underlying the public intervention in agriculture.
- Government support level

4. Global agriculture market and liberalization (4th ECTS - 8 hours)
- Theories in favor and against agricultural liberalism
- International policy: from GATT to WTO
- US Agricultural policy

5. The Common Agricultural Policy (5th and 6th ECTS - 16 hours)
- History of the EU
- CAP: objective and evolution over time
- Evolution of the Common market organizations
- The CAP and the GATT/WTO agreement
- Policy Decupling
- Externalities and non-traded goods
- Recent evolutions of CAP towards 2020

6. The national and regional agricultural policies (7th ECTS - 8 hours)
- Evolution and future of national and regional policies
- Structural policies
- Agri-environmental policies
- Rural development policy and evolution towards 2020

7. Impact analysis of Common Agricultural Policy (8th ECTS - 8 hours)
- Methods of analysis of policy impact
- Impact assessment papers discussion.