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| ECON2254-2 | Tropicals markets
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| Duration : | 12h Th, 12h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Baudouin Michel |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester |
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Course contents :
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| 1. Introduction
2. Concerned products (banana, cacao, coffee, rubber, cotton, palm oil, soya beans cake and oil, essential oils, sugar, thea, cinchona)
3. Production (for each concerned product (geographic areas, volume, value))
4. Consumption (for each concerned product (geographic areas, volume, value))
5. Exchanges (for each concerned product (exports, imports))
6. Price setting (for each concerned product)
6.1. Price mechanism
6.2. Production price
6.3. Consumption price
6.4. Intermediaries and markets
6.5. World prices and internal prices
6.6. Competitiveness
6.7. Evolution and perspectives
7. Futures markets (definition, utility and risk forecast, quantification and relative share, markets instability and volatility, regulation and public intervention)
8. International agreements (coffee, cacao, banana - euro - us, sugar, the WTO and international agreements, Stabex specificities)
9. Fair trade (definition, scale, perspectives) |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Understanding and arguing physical and futures markets functioning of main agricultural productions coming from tropical and intertropical areas.
After completing the course the student is expected to
- will understand the principal mechanisms governing the tropical markets of which the mechanisms fixing of price
- will be able to carry out a relevant research on agricultural tropical markets and to define the principal constraints and prospects for them
-will be likely to integrate the elements of determination of supply and demand in the ex-ante or ex-post analyses of of private and public investments projects |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| None |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Lectures : 12h
Seminars : 12h |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Marchés tropicaux et méditerranéens (2000 - 2005).
Cyclope : Les Marchés Tropicaux - Economica. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Group report (30%)
Oral examination (70%) |
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