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Teacher
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DE FILIPPIS FABRIZIO
(syllabus)
The supply of agri-food products
- Agriculture and perfect competition
- Market structures and imperfect competition in agri-food sector
- Production costs agricultural supply in the short term
- Production costs and agricultural supply in the long term
The demand for agri-food products
- Call for preference theory: from utility to demand curve
- Income and substitution Effect and classification of goods
- Price elasticity
- Income Elasticity-and Engel's Law
- Food demand as differentiated goods
Agriculture and the agro-food system
- The concept of supply chain and its application to the agri-food sector
- Food consumption in Italy
- An overview of the agri-food system in the EU and in Italy
(reference books)
- M. De Benedictis, F. Cosentino, Economia dell'azienda agraria, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1979: cap. 1, 6 e 7
- F. De Filippis, La domanda dei prodotti agroalimentari.
- Lessons slides and selected readings will be delivered during the course
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Università Roma Tre