Investment Evaluation and Agricultural Financing

Μάθημα: Investment Evaluation and Agricultural Financing
Course Number: ECO0010
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COURSE OUTLINE

  1. GENERAL
SCHOOL ACTICULTURAL AND FORESTRY SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
LEVEL OF STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE
COURSE CODE ECO0010 SEMESTER 7th/9th
COURSE TITLE Investment Evaluation and Agricultural Financing
INTEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES
in case that the credit units are awarded in distinctive parts of the class, etc: lectures, laboratorial exercises. When the credit units are awarded for the total class, write the weekly tutorial hours and the total credit units		 WEEKLY TEACHING HOURS CREDIT UNITS
Lectures and Laboratory Exercises / Practice Exercises 4 5
COURSE TYPE SCIENTIFIC AREA/DIRECTION
PRECODITION COURSES: –
LANGUAGE (TEACHING AND EXAMS): GREEK
THE COURSE IS OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS NO
RSE WEBSITE (URL) https://eclass.duth.gr/courses/GEO130/
  1. TEACHING OUTCOMES
Teaching Outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge of the basic concepts of investments and their evaluation techniques, as well as the financing and evaluation of projects and programs related to the primary sector and rural development.

 

Upon the completion of the course the students should be able to:

 

· Understand the concept of investment, investment evaluation, projects and development programs.
· Prepare investment plans related to rural development
· The students apply basic principles of evaluation to it and recognize the complexity of evaluation
· Identify the main elements of an evaluation project and choose the most appropriate methodology
· Use the available technology to gather data on the investments, projects and development programs of an area, process them, analyze them and draw conclusions for the integrated development of those areas.
· They have understood and appreciated the importance of investment in the country’s rural development
· Combine their knowledge and examine the possibilities of utilizing financial tools in the development of a region and / or the country
  General Skills
 

· Decision making
· Work in an interdisciplinary environment
· Promote free, creative and inductive thinking
· Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
· Work in an international environment
· Production of new research ideas
· Exercise criticism and self – criticism
  1. COURSE CONTENT
Week            Thematic Lecture Unit

 

1. Basic concepts, public spending and investments
2. Market limits and state interventions. Efficiency and prosperity
3. Investment plans and valuation methods
4. Investment plans and valuation methods
5. Risk and uncertainty. Social discount rate
6. Evaluation techniques and contribution of European programs, regulations and initiatives in rural development
7. Social and economic implications of investment and development plans
8. Planning, analysis, management and evaluation of development projects and development programs
9. Cost – benefit analysis
10. Rural, mountainous and less favoured areas
11. Financial instruments of European Union
12. Economics and policy of agricultural financing
13. Agricultural credit in Greece

 

 

Week            Thematic Lab Unit

 

1. Investment criteria for independent projects
2. Investment criteria for independent projects
3. Cost – benefit analysis
4. Cost – benefit analysis
5. Risk and uncertainty
6. Preparation and evaluation of an investment plan
7. Preparation and evaluation of an investment plan
8. Drafting a development plan at local and regional level. Emphasis on the primary sector, natural resources and the environment
9. Preparation of a strategic development plan in the primary sector
10. Criteria for prioritization of investments and resources
11. Multicriteria methods
12. Case studies
13. Case studies
  1. TEACHING AND LEARNING ASSESSMENT METHODS
DELIVERING METHOD In classroom
IT USE E – class platform. E-Media use. Power Point presentations
TEACHING ORGANIZATION
Activity Semester workload
Lectures 65
Literature analysis and presentation in classroom 10
 

Practice exercises with application of methodologies in individual topics

 15
Team projects in case studies 15
Individual study 20
Total number of hours for the course

(25 workload hours per ECTS credit)

 125
STUDENT ASSESSMENT Written exams at the end of the semester

Individual or team projects

Students having ascertained dyslexia problems are examined with oral methods

Students have access to their essay at any time

 

  1. SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
– Proposed literature :

1. Mergos G. 2007. Socio – economic evaluation of investments and policies. Vol A’. E. Mpenou editions. Athens.

2. Vasileiou D., Eriotis N. 2018. Investments analysis and portfolio management. Rosili. Athens.

 

– Proposed scientific journals:

Journal of Agricultural Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Finance, Regional Studies

 

ANNEX OF THE COURSE OUTLINE

Alternative ways of examining a course in emergency situations

Department: Agricultural Development
Course: Investment Evaluation and Agricultural Financing
Course code: ECO0010
Teacher: Garyfallos Arabatzis
Contact details: garamp@fmenr.duth.gr
Supervisors: (1)  
Semester: 7th/9th
Study level: (2) Undergraduate
Exams: (3) Written assignment and oral examination with distance learning methods (Microsoft Teams)
Exam implementation instructions: (4) The examinations will be carried out according to the examination program that will be announced by the secretariat of the Department

The examination in the course will be oral carried out using Microsoft Teams. The oral examination in the course will be carried out in groups of 5 people (30 minutes per group) according to the order in which the Number of Student Record of the participants appear in the attached list (examination program).

The link of the Microsoft Teams meeting will be sent to students via e-class, exclusively to the institutional accounts of those who have registered for the course and have learned the terms of distance teaching

Students will have to log in to the examination room through their institutional account, otherwise they will not be able to participate. They will also participate in the examination with a camera which they will have opened during the examination. Before the start of the exam, students will show their identity card to the camera, so that they can be identified

Each student should answer in 4 questions. Each of the questions is scored with 2.5 credits