We explore the role of an individual's historical lineage in determining economic status, holding constant his or her current location. This is complementary to the more common approach to studying how history shapes economic outcomes across locations. Motivated by a large literature in social...

This thesis contributes to the understanding of the economic decision making of farmers. In five chapters, different experimental investigations of preferences and cognitive biases are presented. Various experimental measures of risk and time preference are applied to analyze farmers’...

The papers of the dissertation focus on decision making under uncertainty of farmers in developed and developing countries and apply experimental approaches in order to investigate farmersʾ risk attitude and investment behavior. The first paper experimentally examines the investment and...

The agricultural sector is characterized by higher exposure to a variety of risks compared to the other economic sectors. Agricultural risks include production, market, credit, technological, institutional and human resource risks. Moreover, the agricultural risk environment is changing with...

Agrar-Umweltmaßnahmen stellen mittlerweile das wichtigste Instrument der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik dar, um die Bereitstellung ökologischer Leistungen durch die Landwirtschaft zu fördern. Landwirte erhalten Zahlungen der öffentlichen Hand, wenn sie sich zur Einhaltung bestimmter...

Acknowledgements -- What is a market? -- Markets as metonyms of urban transformation : East London -- Markets and place-image : Rio de Janeiro -- Markets as unremarkable and remarkable places : Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Beijing -- Dis/placing markets through urban renewal : Sydney -- The...

Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht, inwiefern Discrete Choice Experimente (DCE) in der landwirtschaftlichen Produktionsökonomie eingesetzt werden können, um das Entscheidungsverhalten von Landwirten zu prognostizieren. Um diese Fragestellung zu beantworten, werden mehrere DCE mit...

"Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the concept of sustainable development has become the basis for a vast number of "green industries" from eco-tourism to carbon sequestration. In The "Greening" of Costa Rica, Ana Isla exposes the results of the economist's rejection of physical...

Schlagworte deutsch: Umweltrisiko, Nachhaltigkeit, Normen, Namibia, Feldexperimente, Weideland. Schlagworte englisch: environmental risk, sustainability, personel, norms, Namibia, field experiments, rangelands