Agricultural Economics
- Faculty
Faculty of Agricultural Science and Landscape Architecture
- Version
Version 1 of 26.08.2025.
- Module identifier
44B0762
- Module level
Bachelor
- Language of instruction
German
- ECTS credit points and grading
5.0
- Module frequency
only winter term
- Duration
1 semester
- Brief description
In all occupational fileds, students are expected to have a basic understanding of agricultural economics.
- Teaching and learning outcomes
1. supply and demand I: how markets work 2. supply and demand II: markets and prosperity; principles of game theory; 3. price formation in competition and monopolies; efficiency and markets; market failure 4. principles of environmental economics 5. economics of the public sector 6. distribution of wealth, socio-economic optimum 7. principles of labor economics 8. long-term economic development 9. long-term view of money and prices 10. inflation and monetary policy 11. open economy 12. analysis of economic fluctuations 13. analysis of state fiscal policy 14. Basic features of agricultural and environmental policy 15. agricultural market policy instruments 16. agricultural structures and agrarian structural change
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- Overall workload
The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 60 Lecture - 30 Practice - Lecturer independent learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 15 Preparation/follow-up for course work - 30 Exam preparation - 15 Study of literature -
- Graded examination
- Written examination
- Exam duration and scope
2-hour written exam
- Recommended prior knowledge
none
- Knowledge Broadening
Students will have a broad and integrated knowledge and understanding of the scope, main areas and boundaries of agricultural economics.
- Knowledge deepening
Students expand their knowledge of agricultural economic relationships.
- Knowledge Understanding
Students have the ability to classify, interpret, discuss and explain microeconomic and macroeconomic conditions.
- Application and Transfer
Students have the ability to draw appropriate conclusions based on the available quality and quantity of empirical results and given information and also to work out the further need for research-based information.
- Academic Innovation
Students are fundamentally familiar with the requirements for microeconomic and macroeconomic data in order to draw conclusions for economic development with a focus on agricultural economics.
- Communication and Cooperation
Students practise the ability to classify, interpret, discuss and explain agricultural economic conditions and issues at micro and macro level.
- Academic Self-Conception / Professionalism
Students critically reflect on their own categorization of agricultural economic contexts.
- Literature
Mankiw, N.Gregory: Grundzüge der Vokswirtschaftslehre. jeweils aktuelle Auflage sowie aktuelle Literatur, auf die in der Veranstaltung hingewiesen wird.
- Applicability in study programs
- Agriculture
- Agriculture B.Sc. (01.09.2025)
- Person responsible for the module
- Zubek, Nana
- Teachers
- Zubek, Nana