Applications of modeling consumer preferences and choices 2400-PP3SL184
The course will cover the following topics:
- preparation, submission and grading BA dissertations
- data and literature sources
- tools and guidelines for editing documents
- hypotheses and their verification
- planning a BA dissertation
- structure of a BA dissertation
Depending on students’ interests, the course will follow selected topics in assumptions of consumer choice, modeling consumer choice based on choice experiments, contingent valuation, travel cost or hedonic price methods, econometric methods used for discrete choice modeling, ordered choice modeling and factor analysis, and experimental economics
Type of course
Learning outcomes
The course aim is to help each participant prepare BA dissertation devoted to modeling preferences or applying nonmarket valuation methods. Students will learn how to formulate hypotheses, verify them, and how to prepare scientific reports.
Assessment criteria
Grading is based on each student’s progress in preparing BA dissertation.
Bibliography
Selected handouts and papers available online.
Handbooks tailored to each student’s scientific interests.
Additional information
Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system: