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Working Papers

2024

1. Do food manufacturers drive inflation in Europe? An analysis of firm-level markups and their persistence
   2024 Annual Meeting, July 28-30, New Orleans, LA, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
2. Estimating Causal Effects with Observational Data: Guidelines for Agricultural and Applied Economists
   IFRO Working Paper, University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics
3. Information quality of the Nutri-Score and companies’ communication strategy
   2024 Annual Meeting, July 28-30, New Orleans, LA, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
4. Market power, profitability and the decision to exit organic dairy farming in the EU
   IAAE 2024 Conference, August 2-7, 2024, New Delhi, India, International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)
5. Meat Substitute Consumption and Political Attitudes – Testing the Left-Right and Environmental Concerns Frameworks
   2024 Annual Meeting, July 28-30, New Orleans, LA, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)

2023

6. Food Aid and Violent Conflict: A Review of Literature
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

2020

7. Comparing methods for markup estimation with an application to EU food retailing
   2020 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
8. Facts vs. Fake: A Comparison of Product’s Nutritional Values and Nutritional Claims
   2020 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
9. Power imbalances in French food retailing: Evidence from a production function approach to estimate market power
   2020 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article Power imbalances in French food retailing: Evidence from a production function approach to estimate market power, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2020) View citations (6) (2020)

2019

10. Market Power in EU dairy processing: evidence from a stochastic frontier approach
    2019 Annual Meeting, July 21-23, Atlanta, Georgia, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
11. The Impact of Eponymy on Firm Profit: Evidence from the German Food Processing Industry
    2019 Annual Meeting, July 21-23, Atlanta, Georgia, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2018

12. Profitability and Competition in EU Food Retailing
    2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
13. Profitability of Firms in EU Food Retailing
    2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, International Association of Agricultural Economists

2017

14. Determinants of successful product innovations in the German food industry
    2017 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 1, Chicago, Illinois, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
15. Firm Flexibility in the EU Dairy Processing Industry
    2017 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 1, Chicago, Illinois, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2016

16. Private label market power: evidence from Italian dairy retailing
    2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
17. WHAT DRIVES FIRM PROFITABILITY? A MULTILEVEL APPROACH TO THE SPANISH AGRI-FOOD SECTOR
    56th Annual Conference, Bonn, Germany, September 28-30, 2016, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA) View citations (3)
18. What drives firm profitability? A comparison of the US and EU food processing industry
    Studies in Economics, School of Economics, University of Kent View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article What Drives Firm Profitability? A Comparison of the US and EU Food Processing Industry, Manchester School, University of Manchester (2018) View citations (11) (2018)

2015

19. DYNAMIC PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE EUROPEAN FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY
    55th Annual Conference, Giessen, Germany, September 23-25, 2015, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA) View citations (1)
20. Persistent firm profitability in the US and EU food processing industry
    2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)

2013

21. Industry, firm, year and country effects on profitability in EU food processing
    Studies in Economics, School of Economics, University of Kent View citations (3)

2011

22. Profit Persistence in the Food Industry: Evidence from five European Countries
    2011 International Congress, August 30-September 2, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland, European Association of Agricultural Economists View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Profit persistence in the food industry: evidence from five European countries, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation (2013) View citations (44) (2013)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Has corporate greed driven inflation in the European Union? An analysis of the food and beverage industry
   Economics Letters, 2025, 247, (C)

2024

2. Agricultural mechanization and the performance of the local Chinese economy
   Food Policy, 2024, 125, (C) View citations (2)

2023

3. A meta‐regression analysis on the willingness‐to‐pay for country‐of‐origin labelling
   Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023, 74, (3), 719-743 View citations (2)
4. Effects of the debate on glyphosate's carcinogenic risk on pesticide producers' share prices
   Ecological Economics, 2023, 212, (C)
5. Firm names and profitability in German food processing
   European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2023, 50, (3), 1103-1139 View citations (1)
6. Food aid and violent conflict: A review and Empiricist’s companion
   Food Policy, 2023, 121, (C) View citations (1)
7. Markups and export behavior: Firm‐level evidence from the French food processing industry
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023, 105, (1), 174-194 View citations (3)
8. The value of firm flexibility under extreme positive demand shocks: COVID-19 and toilet paper panic purchases
   Economics Letters, 2023, 222, (C)

2022

9. Markup estimation: A comparison of contemporary methods at the example of European food retailers
   Agribusiness, 2022, 38, (1), 108-133 View citations (4)
10. Output market power and firm characteristics in dairy processing: Evidence from three EU countries
    Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2022, 73, (2), 490-517 View citations (5)
11. The role of agricultural insurance in boosting agricultural output: An aggregate analysis from Chinese provinces
    Agribusiness, 2022, 38, (4), 923-945 View citations (4)

2021

12. Mapping potential implications of temporary COVID‐19 export bans for the food supply in importing countries using precrisis trade flows
    Agribusiness, 2021, 37, (1), 25-43 View citations (4)
13. Market-oriented agriculture and farm performance: Evidence from rural China
    Food Policy, 2021, 100, (C) View citations (9)
14. Profitability and profit persistence in EU food retailing: Differences between top competitors and fringe firms
    Agribusiness, 2021, 37, (2), 235-263 View citations (5)

2020

15. Are pesticides risk decreasing? The relevance of pesticide indicator choice in empirical analysis
    Agricultural Economics, 2020, 51, (3), 429-444 View citations (21)
16. Choice of Contract Farming Strategies, Productivity, and Profits: Evidence from High-Value Crop Production
    Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2020, 45, (3) View citations (2)
17. Enhancing food security through diet quality: The role of nonfarm work in rural India
    Agricultural Economics, 2020, 51, (1), 95-110 View citations (8)
18. Factors affecting farmland rental in rural China: Evidence of capitalization of grain subsidy payments
    Land Use Policy, 2020, 90, (C) View citations (23)
19. Measuring Farmer Risk Preferences in Europe: A Systematic Review
    Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 71, (1), 3-26 View citations (59)
20. Power imbalances in French food retailing: Evidence from a production function approach to estimate market power
    Economics Letters, 2020, 194, (C) View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Power imbalances in French food retailing: Evidence from a production function approach to estimate market power, 2020 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Kansas City, Missouri (2020) View citations (6) (2020)
21. Revisiting firm flexibility and efficiency: evidence from the EU dairy processing industry
    European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 47, (3), 971-1008 View citations (19)

2019

22. The price is right!? A meta-regression analysis on willingness to pay for local food
    PLOS ONE, 2019, 14, (5), 1-23 View citations (12)
23. What drives dividend smoothing? A meta regression analysis of the Lintner model
    International Review of Financial Analysis, 2019, 61, (C), 255-273 View citations (12)

2018

24. A tale of two Italian cities: brand-level milk demand and price competition
    Applied Economics, 2018, 50, (49), 5239-5252 View citations (7)
25. Determinants of downside risk exposure of dairy farms
    European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2018, 45, (4), 641-674 View citations (16)
26. SUCCESSFUL IN THE LONG RUN: A META†REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF PERSISTENT FIRM PROFITS
    Journal of Economic Surveys, 2018, 32, (1), 23-49 View citations (7)
27. What Drives Firm Profitability? A Comparison of the US and EU Food Processing Industry
    Manchester School, 2018, 86, (3), 390-416 View citations (11)
    See also Working Paper What drives firm profitability? A comparison of the US and EU food processing industry, Studies in Economics (2016) View citations (1) (2016)

2017

28. Determinants of Plate Leftovers in One German Catering Company
    Sustainability, 2017, 9, (5), 1-17 View citations (14)
29. Identification of spatial agglomerations in the German food processing industry
    Papers in Regional Science, 2017, 96, (1), 139-162 View citations (5)

2016

30. What Causes Firm Profitability Variation in the EU Food Industry? A Redux of Classical Approaches of Variance Decomposition
    Agribusiness, 2016, 32, (1), 79-92 View citations (8)

2014

31. Persistence of firm-level profitability in the European dairy processing industry
    Agricultural Economics, 2014, 45, (S1), 53-63 View citations (30)
32. The Determinants of Firm Profitability Differences in EU Food Processing
    Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2014, 65, (3), 703-721 View citations (23)

2013

33. Profit persistence in the food industry: evidence from five European countries
    European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2013, 40, (5), 741-759 View citations (44)
    See also Working Paper Profit Persistence in the Food Industry: Evidence from five European Countries, 2011 International Congress, August 30-September 2, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland (2011) View citations (1) (2011)