Lecturer: Simone Cerroni

Summary/Description

The course provides students with an in-depth description of state-of the-art methods and tools that are used to evaluate the demand for innovative food products (e.g., lab meat, antibiotic-free products) and welfare benefits generated by environmental and agri-food policies of recent relevance (e.g., climate change, sustainable consumption). Among the methodologies covered in the course: stated preferences (i.e., discrete choice experiments), experimental methods (i.e., experimental auctions) and randomized control trials. The course also provides principles of statistics and econometrics to be used in data analysis. Classes will consist of 7 standard frontal lectures, 1 tutorial on statistics and econometrics, 1 tutorial on research ethics in policy evaluation, and 3 interactive practical lectures.

Skills acquired

The course will improve knowledge and understanding of new trends and policies in the agri-food sector. Students will familiarize with methods and tools for demand and policy evaluation that can be useful in the job market. Strengths and limitations of these methods will be covered to stimulate critical thinking and the elaboration of new research ideas. The course also aims to improve students’ knowledge and understanding of principles of statistics and econometrics applied to evaluation problems.

Course Schedule

Registration procedure: in order to formally register in the course, please write an e-mail request to phd.aes@unitn.it 

Evaluation procedure: 

 - Oral presentation of an academic paper (20%)

- Oral presentation and short report on the development of an experimental protocol (40%)

- Oral presentation and short report on conducted data analysis (40%)