Nov 27, 2024

2018-2019 Graduate Catalog

2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Agricultural Economics (Ph.D.)

Degree Requirements

The Ph.D. program is offered through the Department of Agricultural Economics graduate program and is operated in cooperation with the Department of Economics. Students earn a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics upon completion of the program. In the program, students will study economic theory, knowledge in research methodology, general agricultural economics and a specialty branch including: agribusiness, international development, natural resources, price analysis/marketing, production/farm management/finance, community and regional economics, trade and policy. A Ph.D. program of study must have at least 60 credit hours of graduate course work (the credit received for writing an M. S. thesis or report may be used to help meet the 60 credit hour requirements), and 30 hours of research credits are required for the written Ph.D. dissertation. A minimum of 24 credit hours of course work on the program of study must be taken at Kansas State University.

The program of study in agricultural economics shall include course work in four branches: economic theory, research methodology, general agricultural economics, and a specialty branch in agricultural economics. The student may choose to list a minor field in addition.

After completing 12 hours of microeconomics and macroeconomics, the student takes qualifying examinations in microeconomic and macroeconomic theory. After successfully completing the qualifying examinations and the required courses in agricultural economics, the student takes the preliminary examination in general agricultural economics. After passing the preliminary examination the student is admitted to candidacy.

The candidate prepares a written dissertation proposal including an identification of the problem, a review of relevant literature, and an outline of proposed research procedures to be used. The candidate must satisfactorily defend the proposal in a seminar at least six months before the final Ph.D. oral in which the candidate defends the dissertation.

The course requirements are:

Economic theory (18 Credits)

Required Courses:

ECON 735 - Mathematical Economics Credits: 3
ECON 805 - Macroeconomic Theory I Credits: 3
ECON 905 - Macroeconomic Theory II Credits: 3
ECON 940 - Advanced Microeconomic Theory I Credits: 3
ECON 945 - Advanced Microeconomic Theory II Credits: 3

and select one of the following:

ECON 801 - Topics in Monetary Theory Credits: 3
ECON 823 - Advanced International Economics Credits: 3
ECON 832 - Public Sector Analysis Credits: 3
ECON 890 - Seminar in Economics Credits: 1-3
ECON 915 - Macroeconomic Modelling Credits: 1-3
ECON 920 - Labor Economics Seminar Credits: 3
ECON 925 - Location of Economic Activities Credits: 3
ECON 927 - Advanced Labor Economics Credits: 3
ECON 947 - Industrial Organization Credits: 3
ECON 948 - Empirical Industrial Organization Credits: 3
ECON 955 - Theory and Methods of Regional Economic Analysis Credits: 3
ECON 981 - International Trade Theory and Policy Credits: 3

Research methodology (12 credit hours)

AGEC 901 - Research Methods in Economics Credits: 3
AGEC 936 - Quantitative Topics in Agricultural Economics Credits: 3
ECON 930 - Econometrics II Credits: 3

and select one of the following:

STAT 770 - Theory of Statistics I Credits: 3
STAT 771 - Theory of Statistics II Credits: 3
ECON 935 - Time Series Econometrics Credits: 3
ECON 938 - Microeconometrics Credits: 3

Required agricultural economics courses (6 credit hours)

AGEC 905 - Agricultural Demand and Commodity Marketing Credits: 3
AGEC 923 - Economics of Agricultural Production Credits: 3

Specialty area (6 credit hours)

Requirements for the Specialty Branches

Agribusiness

Two of the following with at least one from AGEC 880 or AGEC 890:

AGEC 890 - Advanced Food and Agribusiness Management Credits: 3
AGEC 880 - Agribusiness Industry Structures Credits: 3
FINAN 815 - Foundations of Finance Credits: 3
MANGT 820 - Managing Organizational Behavior Credits: 3
MKTG 810 - Marketing Concepts and Research Credits: 3
ECON 947 - Industrial Organization Credits: 3 *

Community and regional economics

Two of the following:

ECON 832 - Public Sector Analysis Credits: 3 *
ECON 925 - Location of Economic Activities Credits: 3 *
ECON 955 - Theory and Methods of Regional Economic Analysis Credits: 3 *
SOCIO 832 - Sociology of Community Credits: 3
AGEC 955 - Independent Study of Advanced Topics in Agricultural Economics Credits: 1-18

International Development/Trade/Policy

Two of the following:

AGEC 815 - International Agricultural Development Credits: 3
AGEC 840 - International Markets and Agricultural Trade Credits: 3
AGEC 810 - Price, Income and Trade Policies in Agriculture Credits: 3
ECON 981 - International Trade Theory and Policy Credits: 3 *

Production/farm/management/finance

AGEC 812 - Advanced Farm Economics Credits: 3
(may be replaced with FINAN 815)

and one of the following:

IMSE 982 - Nonlinear Programming Credits: 3
IMSE 830 - Applied Fuzzy Set Theory Credits: 3
IMSE 991 - Multiple Criteria Decision Making Credits: 3
ECE 870 - Neural Networks in Engineering Credits: 3

General electives* (18 credit hours)

Coursework at the 700 level or above.

* Must include the following M.S. level courses or their equivalent

AGEC 712 - Optimization Techniques for Agricultural Economics Credits: 3
AGEC 805 - Agricultural Marketing Credits: 3
AGEC 823 - Production Economics II Credits: 3
ECON 830 - Econometrics I Credits: 3
STAT 706 - Basic Elements of Statistical Theory Credits: 3

Total course credit hours (60)

Dissertation credit hours (30)

Total credit hours required for the Ph.D. (90)

Note

Students are encouraged to consult with their advisor(s) about additional courses to ehance their training in a field. Alternative specialities, or variances to those described above, may be designed by a student’s supervisory committee with the approval of the graduate committee.

*No course can be used to meet both a specialty and a core program requirement.

Agricultural Economics (Ph.D.)

Degree Requirements

Economic theory (18 Credits)

and select one of the following:

Research methodology (12 credit hours)

and select one of the following:

Required agricultural economics courses (6 credit hours)

Specialty area (6 credit hours)

Requirements for the Specialty Branches

Agribusiness

Community and regional economics

International Development/Trade/Policy

Natural resources

Price analysis/marketing

and one of the following:

Production/farm/management/finance

and one of the following:

General electives* (18 credit hours)

Total course credit hours (60)

Dissertation credit hours (30)

Total credit hours required for the Ph.D. (90)

Note