Agribusiness and Managerial Economics Prelims
PhD Preliminary Examination Process
The Preliminary Examinations are administered twice a year on the Thursday before classes begin for the Spring semester and first Summer term of each year. All PhD students are required to pass one written field preliminary exam and one oral preliminary exam.
Students planning to take the Preliminary Examination must have passed the Agricultural Economics Qualifier Exam, and have cumulative and degree plan GPRs of at least 3.0. The oral preliminary exam will be administered after the student has passed the written field preliminary exam. Students must pass both the written field exam and the oral exam to pass the Preliminary Examination. A failure in either of these examinations constitutes a failure of the Preliminary Examination.
Agribusiness and Managerial Economics Field Prelim Content
The Ph.D. Field Examination in Agribusiness and Managerial Economics will emphasize material introduced by the Fundamentals (AGEC 671) and Frontiers (AGEC 695) courses but background information derived from other preparations will be useful. This includes survey material such as the topics covered in the text by Barney (Barney, Jay B. 2002. Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage. 2nd ed. Prentice Hall) and material from the core courses (particularly econometrics, competitive models of the firm, and game theory). The exam’s goal is to assess the student’s integrative capacity to address managerial economics issues with appropriate interpretations, concepts, tools, and policies.
If you would like to have access to previous prelims, contact the Grad Office.