with
University of Primorska, Faculty of Management
Welcome: Friday 22 August 8h30
Lectures: Friday 22 August – Sunday 24 August
Pre-EAAE-Conference workshop: Tuesday 26 August (in Ljubljana)

J.F.M. Swinnen, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
K. Karantininis, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - SLU, Sweden
G. Martino, University of Perugia, Italy
S. Pascucci, University of Wageningen, Netherlands
J.-M. Codron, INRA, Montpellier Supagro, France
L. Dries, University of Wageningen, Netherlands (Course coordinator)
S. Bojnec, University of Primorska, Slovenia (Local organiser)
The course has two main objectives. First, to familiarize participants with the main concepts of New Institutional Economics and specifically Transaction Cost Economics that are relevant for the study of economic organization and coordination problems. Second, the course focuses on empirical applications of this theoretical background in agri-food value chains.
The first part of the course – three days – will focus on the theoretical framework and econometric applications. Students will be challenged to look at value chains from the transaction costs perspective, to identify the transaction, to distinguish different governance structures and types of organization, and to understand the role of institutions in explaining governance and organizations. The practical sessions will introduce students to using the analytical tools available in their research. Examples will come from the lecturers’ experience and research activities. Furthermore, these practical sessions will also be open to discuss participants’ own research.
In the second part of the course – one day – students are invited to participate in the preconference workshop “It’s a jungle out there: The strange animals of economic organization in agri-food value chains” which is endorsed by the European Association of Agricultural
Economists and precedes the tri-annual EAAE Congress in Ljubljana. Invited speakers, Claude
Ménard (Université de Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne) and A. Grandori (Bocconi University), will kick-off the pre-conference workshop by presenting the challenging task: to explore the diversity in organizational forms that exist in the agri-food sector and to identify an appropriate theoretical framework that allows analyzing and explaining this diversity. Next, various scholars will present analyses and case-studies of a variety of economic organizations in the agri-food sector. For more information on the pre-conference workshop, please visit the congress website: http://www.eaae2014.si/congress/pre-congress-workshop/workshop-1

At the end of the course students will be able to:
 Recognize the function of and distinction among organizational arrangements
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Apply the transaction cost theory to analyze the choice and structure of contracts and organizational forms
 Evaluate empirically the determinants of alternative organizational arrangements
 Apply the above skills in problems related to agri-food value chains
 Intermediate Microeconomics
 Elementary Econometrics
 Experience with SPSS or other econometrics software program is an asset.
 A Literature List will be prepared by the lecturers
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Students will have to submit a one page proposal of a research paper based on the pre-assigned literature prior to the start of the course
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This proposal will be discussed and elaborated during the course and will form the basis for the students’ papers to be submitted after the end of the course
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To receive course credits, participants have to submit a research paper within 2 months after the completion of the course. Guidelines for writing the research paper will be provided by the lecturers.
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Selected research papers may be considered for publication in the journal Management
( http://www.fm-kp.si/zalozba/ISSN/1854-4231.htm
)
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After successful completion of the course, students will be awarded with 4 ECTS course credits

Date
Friday
22 August
Time
8.30-9.00
Activity
Welcome and introduction participants
Lecturers
S. Bojnec / L. Dries
Representative FM
K. Karantininis 9.00-10.30 Transactions and Governance in agri-food value chains: Theory
Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Transactions and Governance in agri-food value chains: Theory
K. Karantininis
Lunch
13.30-15.30 Student research proposals:
Small group discussions
Coffee break
All
16.00-18.00 Empirical applications in SPSS: Introduction L. Dries
Saturday
23 August
8.30-10.00 Power relations and contract enforcement in agri-food chains: empirical evidence
Coffee break
10.30-12.00 Analysing participation in agri-food chains: a
TCE perspective
Lunch
13.30-15.30 Empirical applications in SPSS:
Transactions, Governance, Institutions
Coffee break
16.00-18.00 Empirical applications in SPSS:
Organization and Innovation
L. Dries
S. Pascucci
L. Dries / S.
Pascucci
L. Dries / S.
Pascucci
Sunday
24 August
Tuesday
26 August
8.30-10.00 Incomplete contracts with allocation of control/decision rights: theory and evidence
Coffee break
J.-M. Codron
10.30-12.00 Food and people: how constitutional processes sustain the co-production of health and environmental values
Lunch
G. Martino
13.30-15.00 Economic Organization and Institutions in
Agri-Food Chains: Empirical evidence
Coffee break
J.F.M. Swinnen
15.30-17.00 Economic Organization and Institutions in
Agri-Food Chains: Empirical evidence (ctd.)
17.00-17.30 Close of Lectures
J.F.M. Swinnen
K. Karantininis
Pre-conference EAAE workshop with C. Ménard and A. Grandori
To be held in Ljubljana

The Course fees are Euro 365,00. The fees cover: access to online course materials
(Dropbox), 3-day lectures and practical sessions, coffee breaks, lunches and participation in the one-day pre-EAAE-conference workshop (in Ljubljana).
Remark: The fee only covers participation in the pre-conference workshop but not the participation fee for the full EAAE congress in Ljubljana (26-29 August 2014). Students that want to attend the EAAE congress should register through the congress website: http://www.eaae2014.si/congress/register/
Furthermore, the fee does not cover travel to and from Koper, and cost of accommodation.
However, block bookings have been made at a preferential fee in the following accommodations:
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Hostel Museum in Koper (see: http://www.hostel-museum.com
)
Price is 20 EUR per person / per night, breakfast is included
3 double bedrooms and 1 single bedroom are available for summer school students
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Hostel Koper - bed and breakfast (see: http://www.ddkoper.si
)
Price is about 22 EUR per person / per night
20 single rooms are available for summer school students
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Hotel Pristan - bed and breakfast (see: http://www.pristan-koper.si
)
Price is about 50 EUR per person / per night
6 double rooms are available for summer school students
If you want to benefit from the preferential fee, reservations have to be made before the end of May 2014. When booking your accommodation, please indicate that you are participating in the Faculty of Management Summer School. The preferential room rate cannot be guaranteed for reservations that are made after May 31 st 2014.

To register for the course, please fill in the registration form on the next page and return it to liesbeth.dries@wur.nl
Important Date: June 27 th 2014 Deadline for Course registration and full payment of the course fee
Your registration will only be final after full payment of the course fee.
Payments should be made to the following bank account:
Account holder:
Wageningen UR
Social Sciences Group
Finance&Control
Postbus 8130
6700 EW Wageningen
Bank: ABN-AMRO
Account number: 53 95 09 426
IBAN: NL05ABNA0539509426
BIC/Swift: ABNANL2A
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NAME OF PARTICIPANT/ 945600/320
For further information, please contact the course coordinator: Liesbeth Dries
( liesbeth.dries@wur.nl
)

Ph.D. Course
Empirical Applications of Economic Organization and Institutions in Agri-Food Value Chains
22-26 August 2014, Koper / Ljubljana, Slovenia
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