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Contributions to XVth EAAE Congress, Parma, August 28th - September 1St 2017

The bi-annual EAAE congress is the central conference for European Agricultural Economists with the following contributions by our group:

Boecker, T., Britz W., Finger, R.: Modelling the Effects of a Ban of Glyphosate on Weed Management Strategies in Maize Production, Contributed paper

Britz, W. (Session Organizer): Opportunities and Challenges for Joint Development of a Modular and Flexible Platform for Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling, Organized session

Britz, W., Arata, L: Simultaneous estimation of a dual cost function and risk preferences in a Mathematical Programming Framework Using Farm Level Rotating Panels, Contributed paper

Britz, W., Yafari, Y.: Brexit - an economy-wide Impact Assessment looking into trade, immigration, and Foreign Direct Investment, Contributed paper

Haddad, S., Britz W., Boerner, J.: Impacts Of Increased Forest Biomass Demand In The European Bioeconomy, Contributed Poster

Kuhn, T., Schaefer, D., Britz, W.: Assessing the costs to comply with the revised German implementation of the EU Nitrates Directive: a Meta-modelling approach, Contributed Poster

Mittenzwei, K., Britz, W.: Studying Payments That Depend On The Characteristics Of Single Farms: A New Model And Simulation Exercise, Contributed paper

Schaefer, D., Britz, W., Estimating impacts of the revised German fertilizer ordinance on manure transport flows within North Rhine-Westphalia, Contributed poster

Seidel, C., Britz W., Can we derive plausible land rents based on Mathematical Programming? A critical assessment of a dual profit function estimation from simulated farm programs, Contributed paper

Spiegel, A., Britz W., Djanibekov, U., Finger R.: Policy Analysis of Perennial Energy Crops Cultivation at the Farm Level: the Case of Short Rotation Coppice in Germany, Contributed Paper

Yu, W. (Session Organizer), Britz, W. (Discussant): Chinese Agriculture and Agricultural Policy Development: Trends, Measurement, Modelling, and International Implications, Organized Session

Notes: In alphabetical order of first author, links to personal webpages only introduced for staff of our group

Last Updated:Thursday, April 27, 2017

News

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Recent publications

• A Meta-Analysis on the Elasticity of Demand for Pesticides (2017) Böcker, T., Finger, R. (2017): A Meta-Analysis on the Elasticity of Demand for Pesticides, Journal of Agricultural Economics 68(2): 518-533
• Revisiting Pesticide Taxation Schemes (2017) Finger, R., Möhring, N., Dalhaus, T., Böcker, T. (2017): Revisiting Pesticide Taxation Schemes, Ecological Economics 134: 263-266
• Flexible Load of Existing Biogas Plants: A Viable Option to Reduce Environmental Externalities and to Provide Demand-driven Electricity? (2017) Schäfer, D., Britz, W., Kuhn, T. (2017): Flexible Load of Existing Biogas Plants: A Viable Option to Reduce Environmental Externalities and to Provide Demand-driven Electricity? , German Journal of Agricultural Economics 66(2): 109-123
• Climate change impacts on crop yields, land use and environment in response to crop sowing dates and thermal time requirements (2017)> Zimmermann, A., Webber, H., Zhao, G., Ewert, F., Kros, H., Wolf, J., Britz, W., de Vries, W. (2017): Climate change impacts on crop yields, land use and environment in response to crop sowing dates and thermal time requirements , Agricultural Systems (online, print version forthcoming
• Reducing unwanted consequences of aggregation in large-scale economic models - A systematic empirical evaluation with the GTAP model (2016) Britz, W., Van der Mensbrugghe, D.(2016):
  "Reducing unwanted consequences of aggregation in large-scale economic models - A systematic empirical evaluation with the GTAP model", Economic Modelling2016: 462-473, first published online October 2016
• Flexible and welfare-consistent tariff aggregation over exporter regions (2016) Himics, M. and Britz, W.(2016):
  "Flexible and welfare-consistent tariff aggregation over exporter regions", Economic Modelling2016 (53): 375-387, first published online November 2015
• European farms' participation in agri-environmental measures (2016) Zimmermann, A., Britz, W.(2016):
  "European farms' participation in agri-environmental measures", Land Use Policy 50, p. 214-228
• Simulating the viability of water institutions under volatile rainfall conditions - The case of the Lake Naivasha Basin (2016) Kuhn, A., Britz, W., WillY, D., van Oel, P.(2016):
  "Simulating the viability of water institutions under volatile rainfall conditions - The case of the Lake Naivasha Basin", Environmental Modelling and Software 75, p. 373-387