Consumers’ preferences and choices 2400-ENSM063C
The course will cover the following topics:
- preparation, submission and grading MA dissertations
- data and literature sources
- tools and guidelines for editing documents
- hypotheses verification
- planning a MA dissertation
- structure of a MA dissertation
Depending on students’ interests, the course will follow selected topics in assumptions of consumer choice, modeling consumer choice, discrete 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.
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Type of course
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
The course aim is to help each participant prepare MA dissertation devoted to modeling consumer preferences or applying non-market valuation methods. Students will learn how to formulate hypotheses, verify them, and how to prepare scientific reports.
KW01, KW02, KW03, KU01, KU02, KU03, KK01, KK02, KK03
Assessment criteria
Grading is based on each student’s progress in preparing MA 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: