ARE 202 Course Index

Agriculture

Policy

• HW 1:  Ag. Questions  There are 5 questions, due by 4/2 (MS Word)  Please do two questions each plus the short essay  in such a way that the class does all five.
• Ag. Presentation (PowerPoint) (March 19)
•     Luther Tweeten Foundations of Farm Policy provides further information.
• March 20.  no section
• April 1  no section
• Overview of Ag. Policies (MS Word version of History and Programs; more info, less formatting)
• Optimal Taxation  (4/2) (PowerPoint)
• Read Lictenberg-Zilberman and Rausser

Finance

• Ag. Finance: Uncertainty and Futures  and Options (Power Point) (April 9)
•     Dixit and Pindyck  Investment Under Uncertainty is the appropriate reference
• Section April 8 .   
• CAPM (Power Point) (April 11)
•     Sharpe Investments is a good undergraduate text on this topic.
• Ag. Uncertainty Question , due by April 11.
• No section April 15

Resources

Exhaustible

• Lagrange Multipliers (Word) and the more colorful Resource Dynamics (Power Point) (April 16)
• April 22.  Section and Finish Exhaustible.
• Hotelling (Word) and the more complete Hotelling and Park (Power Point)  (tba)
• April 17 and 18  out of town. 

Renewable

• Fisheries (April 23.) (and an introduction ot ODE's)

• Sustainability (April 25)
• April 29   section.
• Stochastic Dominance and First Degree Dominance  (April 30.)
• Appropriative Water Rights (May 2)
• Water Primer  (some basic facts of the water system here and in the mid-east) (May 2)
• May 6 section
• Homework 2  (due May 2)

Environment

• Taxes, Standards and Property Rights (Theories and Programs) (Powerpoint) (May 9)
• Prices vs. Quantities (Power Point) (May 9)
• Handbook Chapter on Env. Theory
• May 14 Final (Last Day of Class).
• Notes on International Environment (html)
• Isoquants and Regulation (html from EEP 1)
• Environmental Options

Bib. Project Due  May 7

Review Sheet

Other

Method of Moments

Sources for a Bibliography or Background Paper

For a limited time only:  Pindyck's primer on options, etc.