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Study Plan
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Laurea in Scienze e tecnologie viticole ed enologiche - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Wine economics (2015/2016)
Teaching code
4S001120
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
AGR/01 - AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND RURAL APPRAISAL
The teaching is organized as follows:
Teoria
Laboratorio
Learning outcomes
In the first part, the course provides the basic theoretical tools which will be applied to the wine system analysis.
In the second part, the course aims at making the students understand the structure and the dynamic aspects of wine supply chains, as one of the main elements of the agribusiness system, and as a component of the economic, social and territorial system as well.
The application part of the course aims at giving empirical evidence to the principles of agribusiness and to the study of wine supply chains through exercises and cases of study.
Program
Module: Theory
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Introduction to economic theory and agribusiness.
The main macro-economic agribusiness indicators.
The food demand function. The production function and the cost function of wine businesses.
Profit maximisation.
The market regimes in the wine systems.
Wine supply chains and relationships between actors.
The innovation in wine systems.
Wine demand and market segmentation.
The structure, the evolution and the strategies of Italian and international food retail.
Structure and strategies of wineries.
Coordination mechanisms in wine supply chains.
Module: Exercises
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Analysis of the main macro-economic indicators.
Representation of food demand function, production function and cost function for wine firm. Profit maximisation.
Analysis of cases of study.
Bibliography
| Activity | Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| Teoria | Sloman John; Garratt Dean | Microeconomia (Edizione 4) | Il Mulino | 2014 | 9788815138637 | |
| Teoria | Marks Denton | Wine and Economics: Transacting the Elixir of life | Edward Elgar Publishing | 2015 |
Examination Methods
Learning will be assessed through oral exam. The exam consists of a discussion aimed at verifying depth and breadth of knowledge, propriety of language and ability of critical analyisis.
