Seminars of the Section Economics
The seminar series is organized by the Section Economics of Wageningen University (consisting of the groups Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy, Development Economics, Urban Economics, Environmental Economics and Natural Resources, and Economic and Environmental History).
The seminar is aiming to foster the exchange on recent topics in the field of economics. We consider contributions from all fields of economic research and invite speakers from Wageningen, the Netherlands and abroad.
The seminar is organized as a weekly lunch seminar taking place on campus. Meetings are between 12:00 and 13:00 hours. Lunch is served. Rooms, speakers, and topics are announced here.
All staff and students are welcome!
If you want to present your work, or you want to suggest potential speakers please contact Théo Konc (theo.konc@wur.nl) or Suphi Sen (suphi.sen@wur.nl)
Upcoming Seminars
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Andreas Lange (University of Hamburg):"On the voluntary provision of public goods in overlapping neighborhoods".
- Tuesday November 19, Andreas Lange from the University of Hamburg (Germany), will give a seminar entitled: "On the voluntary provision of public... -
Sarah Kariuki and Michael Ndegwa (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center): "Innovative approaches to accelerate varietal turnover of maize hybrids in Kenya".
- Tuesday November 26, Sarah Kariuki and Michael Ndegwa from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), will give a seminar entitled... -
DEARE Day 2025
- The Fourth Dutch Environmental and Resource Economics Day workshop will be held on 7 February 2025, hosted by the Environmental Economics and Natural... -
Economics of Farm Households - 1 ECTS
Past Seminars
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Imelda (Geneva Graduate Institute): "Crime in the Dark: Role of Electricity Rationing"
- Tuesday November 12, Imelda from the Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland), will give a seminar entitled "Crime in the Dark: Role of... -
Mattia Fracchia (the Nova Schoolof Business and Economics): "Does Performance Evidence Motivate? A Field Experiment in Guinea-Bissau’s Health Sector".
- Tuesday November 5, Mattia Fracchia from the Nova School of Business and Economics (Portugal), will give a seminar entitled "Does Performance... -
Stephan Sommer (Bochum University of Applied Sciences and RWI): "Climate Change and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Testing for Motivated Reasoning".
- Tuesday October 29, Stephan Sommer from the Bochum University of Applied Sciences and RWI (Germany), will give a seminar entitled "Climate Change... -
RHI Seminar: ''From Condemnation to Action? United Nations Sanctions in Rhodesia and South Africa''
- We happily invite you to a RHI Seminar. Our speaker is Martine Mariotti (Australian National University), who is currently staying at RHI for a... -
Thomas Douenne (University of Amsterdam): “Do People Distinguish Income from Wealth Inequality? Evidence from the Netherlands ".
- Tuesday 22 October, Thomas Douenne from the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), will give a seminar entitled “Do People Distinguish... -
Jan Priebe (Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine): “Combating fake news in health: An online experiment on vaccination in Africa".
- Tuesday 15 October, Jan Priebe from the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine (Germany), will give a seminar entitled “Combating fake... -
RHI Seminar: “Globalizations in a nutshell – Tracing a 700-year history of trade in shea in West Africa”
- We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of October. Our speaker for this month is Andrew Wardwell from CIFOR (Centre for International Forestry... -
Sachintha Fernando (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg): “Zero fare, cleaner air? The causal effect of Luxembourg’s free public transportation policy on carbon emissions".
- Tuesday 08 October, Sachintha Fernando from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), will give a seminar entitled “Zero fare,... -
Katja Kaufmann (University of Bayreuth): "Peer Effects in Financial Decisions: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data".
- On Tuesday 01 October Katja Kaufmann from the University of Bayreuth (Germany), will give a seminar entitled "Peer Effects in Financial... -
Matías Mayor (University of Oviedo) : “Resilience, path dependenceand path breaking in old industrial regions".
- On Tuesday 24 September Matias Mayor from the University of Oviedo (Spain), will give a seminar entitled “Resilience, path dependence and path... -
RHI Seminar: Breads from local and diversified crops for improving food security
- We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of September. Our speaker for this month is Martijn Noort from Wageningen University
The seminar will take... -
Waldemar Marz (Ifo Institute and the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich): “Income Inequality and Political Polarization".
- On Tuesday 17 September, Waldemar Marz, from the ifo Institute and the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, will give a seminar entitled... -
Arief Anshory Yusuf (Padjadjaran University):“Education expansion,the Kuznetsian tension and inequality: The Case of Indonesia".
- Monday 16 September, Arief Anshory Yusuf from the Padjadjaran University (Indonesia), will give a seminar entitled “Education expansion, the... -
Paula Gobbi (Université Libre de Bruxelles): “Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of Inheritance".
- On Tuesday 10 September Paula Gobbi, from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, will give a seminar entitled “Fertility in Sub-Saharan... -
Achim Hagen (Humboldt Universit Berlin): ''The Political Economy of Stranded Assets: Climate Policies, Investments and the Role of Elections ".
- On Tuesday 03 September Achim Hagen, from the Humboldt Universit Berlin, will give a seminar entitled “The Political Economy of Stranded Assets:... -
Daniel Gilligan (IFPRI): “Subsidies and Product Assurance: Evidence from Agricultural Technologies”
- Wednesday June 26, Daniel Gilligan (IFPRI) will give a seminar entitled “Subsidies and Product Assurance: Evidence from Agricultural... -
Symposium: ‘‘Will the newly elected European Parliament accelerate the Green Transition?’’
- The symposium will be an in-person event at the World Trade Center in The Hague (the Netherlands) from 13:30 – 16:30 with drinks afterwards.... -
José Maria Gil Roig (Center for Agro-Food Economics and Development, CREDA, Spain): “Is fiscal policy effective to incentivize more sustainable food consumption?"
- Tuesday June 25, José Maria Gil Roig (Center for Agro-Food Economics and Development, CREDA, Spain) will give a seminar entitled “Is... -
Zhiling Wang (Erasmus University Rotterdam): “Identifyinghousing preferences in regulated markets: Evidence from waiting lists.”
- Tuesday June 18, Zhiling Wang (Erasmus University Rotterdam) will give a seminar entitled “Identifying housing preferences in regulated markets:... -
RHI Seminar: Rebecca Simson
- We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of June. Our speaker for this month is Rebecca Simson from the University of Oxford.
The seminar will take...
| Date | Presenter | Title |
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| 6 October | Linde Götz (IAMO, Germany) | How well is the Russian Wheat Market Functioning? A Comparison with the Corn Market in the USA |
| 29 September | Anouschka Groeneveld (AEP, WUR) | Uptake of on-farm processing of organic waste |
| 22 September | Koos Gardebroek (AEP, WUR) | Analyzing production shocks in global wheat markets using GVAR models |
| 15 September | Fatima Lambarraa (École Nationale d'Agriculture de Meknès, Morocco) | Dynamic technical inefficiency and investment decision: An empirical analysis for Spanish olive sector |
| 8 September | Arega Alene (IITA, Malawi) | Ex-ante impact evaluation of soybean production technologies in Africa |
| 1 September | Paul Hofman (DEC, WUR) | Social Networks and Technology Diffusion in the Congo |
| 23 June | Marleen Onwezen (LEI, WUR) | Foodprofiler |
| 20 June | Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale School of Management) | General Equilibrium Effects of Rural-Urban Migration |
| 16 June | Rico Ihle (AEP, WUR) | The Effects of Civil War on Fresh Food Markets in Palestine |
| 13 June | Samuel Weldeegzie (Australian National University) | Growing-up unfortunate: War and Childhood Human Capital in Ethiopia |
| 2 June | Andries Richter (ENR, WUR) | Reciprocal citizen - Cuts in public spending reduce voluntary contributions in a field experiment |
| 19 May | Krisztina Kis-Katos (Universität Freiburg) | Education attainment in the neighborhood of conflicts: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa using georeferenced data |
| 28 April | Koen Leuveld (DEC, WUR) | The role of local chiefs in development aid in Eastern Congo |
| 14 April | Hans-Peter Weikard (ENR, WUR) | Join, support or free-ride: coalition formation in a public goods game |
| 7 April | Alfons Oude-Lansink (BE, WUR) | Measuring Dynamic Eco-efficiency under the By-Production of Undesirable Output |
| 31 March | Zuzana Smeets-Kristkova (LEI, WUR) | Agricultural R&D investments, food security and biofuel policy – a CGE approach |
| 24 March | Servaas van der Berg (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) | Education and Income Distribution in South Africa |
| 17 March | Jacobus de Hoop (Unicef) | Economic empowerment and children’s time use |
| 10 March | Maarten Punt (University of Southern Denmark) | Noise Signals Value: Trading off marine mammals and seismic survey information |
| 3 March | Shenggen Fan (DG IFPRI) | A new global food system for multiple wins: Demystifying conventional beliefs |
| 3 March | Aisha Nanyiti (DEC, WUR) | Tied Labour, Savings and Rural Labour Market Wages: Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment |
| 25 February | Jan Falkowski (University of Warsaw) | Rural Politics and Structural Change: Some Evidence from Poland |
| 18 February | Jeroen Klomp (ENR/DEC, WUR) | Political cycles in public natural disaster support: A cross-country analysis |
| 11 February | Jan Rouwendal (VU Amsterdam) | Border Effects in House Prices |
| 4 February | Erwin Bulte (DEC, WUR) | The Impacts of Subsidizing New Products on Uptake, Learning, and Diffusion: Experimental Evidence from Rural Cameroon |
| 28 January | Oriana Gava (University of Pisa) | Spatial impacts and sustainability of farm biogas diffusion in Italy |
| 21 January | Qianqian Shao (AEP, WUR) | A Political Economy Model of a GMO Trade Agreement |
| 14 January | Thomas Venus (AEP, WUR) | The Costs of Coexistence Measures for Genetically Modified Maize in Germany |
| Date | Presenter | Title |
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| 17 December | Jale Tosun (University of Heidelberg) | To mobilize or not: political attention and the regulation of GMOs |
| 10 December | Florian Diekert (University of Oslo) | Play with fire: Experiments to find the location of a catastropic threshold |
| 3 December | Edwin van der Werf (ENR) | What firms adopt an eco-label? Initial evidence from the Dutch accommodation sector |
| 26 November | Devesh Rustagi (Goethe University Frankfurt) | Got Milk? Motivation for Honesty and Functioning of Informal Markets: Evidence from India |
| 23 November | Wallace Huffman (Iowa State University) | The Economic Impacts of Technology and Climate Change: New Evidence Unearthed from Corn Yields |
| 19 November | Vojtech Bartos (CERGE-EI Prague) | Seasonal scarcity and sharing norms |
| 12 November | Joppe de Ree | Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on the Impact of an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase on Student Performance in Indonesia |
| 9 November | Corbett Grainger (University of Wisconsin - Madison) | Property rights, regulatory capture, and exploitation of natural resources |
| 29 October | Martha Ross (DEC) | Bargaining Markets, Information Asymmetry, and Social Capital |
| 15 October | Peter Lanjouw (VU Amsterdam) | Analyzing Poverty and Inequality in Palanpur: Insights and Challenges from a Longitudinal Village Study |
| 13 October | Ofir Rubin (Ben-Gurion-University of the Negev) | The impact of subsidizing energy efficient cars: Evidence from a natural experiment in Israel |
| 8 October | Shruti Sharma (Indian Institute of Management) | Imported Intermediate Inputs and Workforce Composition: Evidence from India's Tariff Liberalization |
| 1 October | Janne Helin (ENR) | A model for estimating phosphorus requirements of world food production |
| 24 September | Nastassia Leszczynska (Free University of Brussels) | Professional identity, bribery and public service: a lab-in-the-field experiment in Burundi |
| 10 September | Robert Inklaar (RUG) | Cross-country income levels over time: did the developing world suddenly become much richer? |
| 3 September | Israel Finkelshtain (Hebrew University) | Regulatory Capture vs. Oligopoly: A Price Control Dilemma in the Dairy Market |
| 9 July | Ian Levely | |
| 2 July | Paolo Sckokai (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) | The use of scanner data for measuring food inflation and price dynamics |
| 2 July | Natascha Wagner (ISS) | Does Health Insurance Coverage or Improved Quality Protect Better Against Out-of-Pocket Payments? Experimental Evidence from the Philippines |
| 25 June | Daan van Soest (UvT) | Cooperation in multi-person social dilemmas: The Public Goods game revisited |
| 18 June | Andries Richter (ENR, WUR) | When kindness generates unkindness. Why positive framing cannot solve the tragedy of the commons; an experimental investigation |
| 11 June | Edwin van der Werf (ENR) | The Potential of REDD+ for Carbon Sequestration in Tropical Forests: Supply Curves for carbon storage for Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| 4 June | Roland Luttens (VU) | Collective bargaining in an at-will firm |
| 21 May | Maarten Bosker (EUR) | A theory of trade in a global production network |
| 7 May | Mequanint Melesse (DEC, WUR) | Market Exposure and Risk Aversion. Evidence from Landed Farmers in Ethiopia |
| 30 April | Gonne Beekman (DEC) | Sanctioning Regimes and Chief Quality. Evidence from Rural Liberia |
| 9 April | Erwin Bulte (DEC, WUR) | the clawback... |
| 2 April | Bilal Siddiqi (World Bank) | Can the Wounds of War be Healed? Experimental Evidence on Reconciliation in Sierra Leone |
| 26 March | Salvatore Di Falco (Université du Genève) | Dead Aid? The Embezzlement of Donors' Funds |
| 19 March | Justus Wesseler (AEP, WUR) | Irreversibility, uncertainty, and dynamic pest resistance |
| 11 March | Xavi Gine (World Bank) | Forecasting When it Matters: Evidence from Semi-Arid India |
| 5 March | Adam Walker (ENR, WUR) | Network Externalities, Allee effects and Natural Adverse Selection in Ballast Water Management |
| 26 February | Malte Lierl (Yale University) | Preferences or Incentives: What Motivates Village Leaders to Refrain From Misappropriating Public Resources? |
| 19 February | Julia Anna Matz (Bonn University)) | Ethnicity, Marriage, and Family Income |
| 9 February | Frank Place (IFPRI) | The Effects of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration of Trees on Crop Yields in West Africa |
| 29 January | Remco Oostendorp (VU Amsterdam) | Regional Labor Market Integration, Shadow Wages and Poverty in Vietnam |
| 22 January | Irene Alvarado-Quesada (ENR, WUR) | International cooperation for biodiversity conservation when spatial structures matter: the case study of the golden-winged warbler |
| 15 January | Robert Sparrow | The Effects of Decentralized Health Care Financing on Maternal Care: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Indonesia |
| 8 January | Jeroen Klomp (ENR/DEC, Wageningen University) | Election cycles in natural resource rents: where do they come from and where do they go? |
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11 December | Thomas van der Pol (ENR, Wageningen University) | A dynamic minimax regret analysis of flood management strategies under climate change uncertainty with emerging information on peak flows |
| 3 December | Peter van der Windt (DEC, Wageningen University) | How Development Interventions Make the Poor 'Poorer': Evidence from Two Experiments in the Congo |
| 27 November | Michiel Gerritse (RU Groningen) | Does trade cause long-run development? Theory and evidence from countries behind the Suez channel |
| 20 November | Francesco Cecchi (DEC, Wageningen University) | Statutory Law and Customary Change: a Lab-in-Field Experiment in Ethiopia |
| 13 November | Niccolo Meriggi (DEC, Wageningen University) | Dissecting Trust: Evidence From a Field Experiment in Rural Cameroon |
| 6 November | Tatiana Filatova (University Twente) | Changing climate – changing behavior: integrating adaptive economic dynamics in coupled socio-environmental systems |
| 30 October | Maria Alexandra Nichifor | Risk Mitigation Models in Renewable Energies – Solar vs. Wind |
| 16 October | Esther Boere | The Impact of Whole Farm Income Insurance on Land Use Decisions: Modelling Risk Management for Dutch Arable Farmers |
| 9 October | Silke Gabbert | The economics of regulating hazardous chemicals in Europe: Why (and how) persistence matters |
| 2 October | Dušan Drabik | Biofuels and Vertical Price Transmission: The Case of the U.S. Corn, Ethanol, and Food Markets |
| 18 September | Elissaios Papyrakis (UEA) | Income Inequality and the Resource Curse |
| 10 September | Michael Grimm | Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia |
| 4 September | Jikun Huang | China’s Food Security and Policy |
| 26 August | Bernadette Wanjala (CentER Graduate School, Tilburg) | Is diversification the panacea to enhancing household income and reducing poverty among Smallholder farmers? The Case of Sauri Millennium Village in Kenya |
| 10 July | Malte Lierl (Yale) | Do social incentives encourage free riding? Experimental evidence from 48 villages in Tanzania |
| 26 June | Alexander Moradi (Sussex) | History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya |
| 19 June | Pierre van Mouche (Economics of Consumers and Households, WUR) | The Hotelling bi-matrix game |
| 5 June | Jan Stoop (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) | Return to Sender: Ethical Behaviour, Social Class, and Envelopes |
| 12 June | Janneke Pieters (Development Economics, WUR) | The gendered labor market impacts of trade liberalization: evidence from Brazil |
| 22 May | Shumin Yu (Environmental Economics, WUR) | International Carbon Trade with Endogenous Permits and Cooperation for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation |
| 15 May | Harry de Gorter (Cornell University) | Biofuel Policies and Food Commodity Price Volatility |
| 8 May | Bernd Süßmuth (University of Leipzig) | Crop Rotation and Complex Dynamics in Interacting Cobweb Markets |
| 1 May | Marcel Timmer (University of Groningen) | Slicing Up Global Value Chains |
| 17 April | Maarten Punt (TU München) | The formation of GMO-free and GMO-only Coasean clubs |
| 24 April | Francesco Cecchi (Development Economics, WUR) | Does Prenatal Trauma Reduce Cooperation? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment in Post-conflict Uganda |
| 10 April | Marcel Gatto (University Göttingen) | Oil Palm Boom and Village Development: Impact and Inclusiveness of Contractual Arrangements |
| 3 April | Erwin Bulte (Development Economics, WUR) | Chief for a Day: Who Should Be Stewarding Development Dollars? Evidence from a Field Experiment |
| 25 March | Srikantha Murthy (University of Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore, India) | Backward Bending Labour Supply Curve Faced by Farmers in India |
| 27 March | Dominic Hauck (IVM Amsterdam) | When green consumerism is fashionable |
| 13 March | Elisabetta De Cao (University of Groningen) | Sensitive survey questions: Measuring attitudes regarding female circumcision through a list experiment |
| 6 March | Thomas van de Pol (Environmental Economics and Natural Resources group, WUR) | Impacts of Rainfall Variability and Expected Rainfall Changes on the Cost-Effective Adaptation of Water Systems to Climate Change |
| 27 February | James Fenske (University of Oxford) | Conflict and the formation of political beliefs in Africa |
| 20 February | Christos Kolympiris (Management Studies, WUR) | The Diminishing Signaling Value of Patents between Early Rounds of Venture Capital Financing |
| 23 January | Liesbeth Dries (Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group, WUR) | Power, buyer trustworthiness and supplier performance: evidence from the Armenian dairy sector |
| 16 January | Jianying Qiu (Radboud University Nijmegen) | Reference Dependence and Aversion to Losses in Probability: Theory and Experiment of Ambiguity Attitudes |
| 9 January | Adam N. Walker (Environmental and Resource Economics, WUR) | Endogenous Risk of Stock Collapse and the Great Fish Pact |
| 30 January | Andries Richter (Environmental Economics and Natural Resources group, WUR) | Saving the planet by being a hypocrite – Moral reasoning in the commons |
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 5 December | Alessandro Bonanno (Business Economics, WUR) | Farmers’ markets location determinants: An empirical analysis in New England |
| 28 November | Koos Gardebroek (Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy, WUR) | Food Prices and Conflicts in Low- and Middle Income Countries |
| 21 November | Gerrit Antonides (Economics of Consumers and Households, WUR) | Mental-budgeting effects on tax compliance of Dutch self-employed people |
| 14 November | Aussi Sayinzoga (Development Economics, WUR) | Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Rural Rwanda |
| 7 November | Jan-Henning Feil (University of Goettingen, Germany) | Investment and disinvestment in the dairy sector under competition, uncertainty and market interventions |
| 31 October | Rein Haagsma (Development Economics, WUR) | Land conflicts in Africa: the role of institutions |
| 17 October | Sorada Tapsuwan (CSIRO, Australia) | Preferences for managing mosquito borne disease outbreaks in Western Australia |
| 10 October | Jeroen Klomp (DEC, Wageningen) | Economic Development and Natural Disasters: A satellite data analysis |
| 3 October | Mathias Kloss (IAMO, Halle) | Identifying Factor Productivity by Dynamic Panel Data and Control Function Approaches: A Comparative Evaluation for EU Agriculture |
| 26 September | Yan Wu (DEC, Wageningen University) | Political factors in China’s growth model: A theoretical model of local officials’ incentives |
| 18 September | Shenggen Fan (Director General IFPRI, Washington) | Sustainable Intensification to Achieve Food and Nutrition Security |
| 12 September | Valentina Materia (AEP, Wageningen University) | Selection process of public research projects in agriculture: is the scientific merit the only driver? |
| 10 July | Nicholas Magnan (University of Georgia) | Social networks and the adoption of a water conserving agricultural technology in India |
| 4 July | Robert Deacon (UC Santa Barbara) | Industry-driven fishery reforms |
| 27 June | Remco Oostendorp (VU) | Weathering the Storm: Responses by Cambodian Firms to the Global Financial Crisis |
| 13 June | Rolf Groeneveld (ENR) | Can certification improve an open access fishery? An application to Pacific tuna |
| 6 June | Harold Houba (VU Amsterdam) | Bargaining in River Sharing Problems |
| 28 May | via RHI: Jan de Vries (Berkeley) | Taxing the staff of life: the Dutch bread tax, 1574-1855 |
| 23 May | Marit Kragt (University of Western Australia) | Environmental Management |
| 16 May | Petros Milionis (University of Groningen) | Reassessing the Evolution of World Trade, 1870-1949 |
| 13 May | Annika Mueller (Harvard University) | In the Public Eye Norms of Distributive Justice and Sharing Behavior under Asymmetric Information:Evidence from Rural Malawi |
| 25 April | Ewout Frankema (RHI) | Fiscal capacity building in British and French Africa |
| 18 April | David Zetland (ENR) | The End of Abundance 2.0 |
| 28 February | Thomas van der Pol (ENR) | Optimal Dike Investments under Uncertainty and Learning about Increasing Water Levels |
| 14 February | Elena Briones Alonso (Catholic University Leuven) | Voodoo and fishing in a changing world: The role of traditional religion and modern institutions in managing the inland fisheries of Benin |