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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 (2016/2017)
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 wine economics 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, agribusiness and wine economics.
The characteristics of the wine supply chains and the international wine trade.
The main macro-economic indicators.
The demand theory. The demand of wine. Wine consumption and market segmentation.
The production theory and the cost theory. The production function and the cost function of wine businesses.
Profit maximisation.
The types of market structures. The structures of wine markets.
Module: Exercises
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Analysis of the main macro-economic indicators.
Representation of wine demand function, production function and cost function for a wine firm. Profit maximisation in the different market structures.
Analysis of cases of study.
Bibliography
Students will have to study:
1) Marks, Denton. Wine and Economics: Transacting the Elixir of Life. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015
2) J. Sloman-D. Garatt, Microeconomia, Il Mulino, Bologna.
Bibliography
| Activity | Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| Teoria | Castriota Stefano | Economia del vino (Edizione 1) | Egea | 2015 | 9788823844766 | |
| Teoria | Sloman John; Garratt Dean | Microeconomia (Edizione 4) | Il Mulino | 2014 | 9788815138637 | |
| Laboratorio | Sloman John; Garratt Dean | Microeconomia (Edizione 4) | Il Mulino | 2014 | 9788815138637 | |
| Laboratorio | Marks Denton | Wine and Economics: Transacting the Elixir of life | Edward Elgar Publishing | 2015 |
Examination Methods
Learning assessment will be performed through an oral exam. The exam consists of a discussion of three/four questions aimed to verify depth and breadth of knowledge, communication skills, ability in critical analyisis and ability in linking the different topics proposed during the course.
