I teach postgraduate students within the Master Program in Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics. I am currently teaching two courses:

Agro-economic Modelling

Outline:

Introduction to agro-economic modelling
Agricultural supply models
Advanced farm modelling (risk and dynamic features)
Partial equilibrium modelling
General equilibrium modelling

Recommended readings:

• Blanco Fonseca, M. (2011). Guía de introducción a GAMS. Departamento de Economía y Ciencias Sociales Agrarias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Septiembre 2011.
• Francois, J.F.; Reinert, K.A. (eds) (1997). Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis: A Handbook. Cambridge University Press, New York.
• Hardaker, J.B.; Huirne, R.B.M.; Anderson, J.R. (1997). Coping with Risk in Agriculture. CAB International, Wallingford, U.K.
• Hazell, P.B.R. y Norton, R. (1986). Mathematical programming for economic analysis in agriculture. Mac Millan Publishing Company, New York.
• Hertel, T.W. (2002). Applied general equilibrium analysis of agricultural and resource policies. In: B. L. Gardner & G. C. Rausser (ed.), Handbook of Agricultural Economics, edition 1, volume 2, chapter 26, pages 1373-1419, Elsevier.
• McCarl, B.A. y Spreen, T.H. (2003). Applied Mathematical Programming using Algebraic Systems.
• Piermartini, R.; Teh, R. (2005). Demystifying Modelling Methods for Trade Policy. WTO Discussion Paper 10 (September), World Trade Organization, Geneva.

Applied Microeconomics

Outline:

Production theory
Consumer behaviour
Competitive and non-competitive markets
Factor markets
Price analysis
Risk and uncertainty

Recommended readings:

• Pindyck, R.S. y Rubinfield, D.L. (2001): Microeconomía, 5ª edición, Prentice-Hall, Madrid.
• Perloff, J. (2006). Microeconomía 3ª Edic. Pearson Educacion