Call for Applications- Experimental Auctions: Theory and Applications in Food Marketing and Consumer Preferences Analysis

The course is aimed at learning the fundamentals and the recent advances of experimental auctions. It will provide the appropriate techniques to construct an experimental design, with software applications and workshops regarding specific problems in the fields of food market valuation. It will also provide the appropriate knowledge of the models used in the experimental auction literature for the data analysis. Results interpretation and policy implications will be also discussed.

Instructors

Rodolfo M. Nayga, jr. – Professor and Tyson Endowed Chair in Food Policy Economics in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at University of Arkansas, USA

Jayson L. Lusk – Professor and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University, USA

Andreas Drichoutis – Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

The event will take place in Chania (Crete – Greece) on July 7-14, 2015 at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania.

Submit your application here: http://public.bscw.de/pub/bscw.cgi/117415463

For further information please check the conference website:
http://experimentalauctions.jimdo.com

For specific information and needs please contact: maurizio.canavari@unibo.it