Prof. Luisa Menapace, PhD

Holder of the Chair of Governance in International Agribusiness

Professor Menapace holds a Laurea degree in Agricultural Sciences (University of Padua, Italy), a Master degree in Agribusiness (Sacred Heart Catholic University, Italy), and a PhD in Economics (Iowa State University, USA). After completing her PhD, she worked as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Economics at the University of Trento, Italy (2010-2012), and as an assistant professor at the University of Bonn, Germany (2012-2013). Since 2013, she holds the BayWa endowed professorship ''Governance in International Agribusiness'' at TUM. She received a tenured position at TUM in 2020.

Areas of Interest

  • Food labels, certifications and Geographical Indications
  • Food qualities: nutritional aspects and environmental sustainability
  • Unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships
  • Regional and global value chains
  • Market gardening, organic and sustainable agro-food value chains
  • Fruit and vegetables value chains
  • Market access and sale channels for SMEs and smallholders
  • Barriers and motivations toward sustainable food value chains
  • Smallholders’ financial inclusion and credit assess

Contacts

Office hours: by appointment

E- Mail: luisa.menapace@tum.de

Selected Publications

2024

  • Menapace, Luisa; Moschini, GianCarlo: The Economics of Geographical Indications: An Update. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2024 more…
  • Menapace, Luisa; Moschini, GianCarlo: The Economics of Geographical Indications: An Update. Annual Review of Resource Economics 16 (1), 2024, 83-104 more…
  • Rackl, Jakob; Menapace, Luisa: The Economics of Geographical Indications in International Markets. 2024, more…
  • Sylvester Sadekla, Luisa Menapace, Oreoluwa Ola: Sustainable postharvest processing technologies for dried food commodities and firm-level adoption: A critical review. 2024, more…

2023

  • Marion, Hofmeier; Luisa, Menapace; Sebastian, Rahbauer: Adoption of Geographical Indications and origin-related food labels by smes – A systematic literature review. Cleaner and Circular Bioeconomy 4, 2023, 100041 more…
  • Russo, Carlo; Di Marcantonio, Federica; Cacchiarelli, Luca; Menapace, Luisa; Sorrentino, Alessandro: Unfair trading practices and countervailing power. Food Policy 119, 2023, 102521 more…

2021

  • Fezzi, Carlo; Menapace, Luisa; Raffaelli, Roberta: Estimating risk preferences integrating insurance choices with subjective beliefs. European Economic Review 135, 2021, 103717 more…
  • Raffaelli, Roberta; Franch, Mariangela; Menapace, Luisa; Cerroni, Simone: Are tourists willing to pay for decarbonizing tourism? Two applications of indirect questioning in discrete choice experiments. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 65 (7), 2021, 1240-1260 more…

2020

  • Barathova, K.; Cacchiarelli, L.; Di Fonzo, A.; Lai, M.; Lee, H.; Menapace, L.; Pokrivcak, J.; Rahbauer, S.; Rajcaniova, M.; Russo, C.; Sorrentino, A.; Swinnen, J.; Vandervelde, S.: European Commission. Joint Research Centre. (Ed.): Pass-through of unfair trading practices in EU food supply chains: methodology and empirical application. Publications Office, 2020 more…
  • Danner, Hannah; Menapace, Luisa: Using Online Comments to Explore Consumer Beliefs Regarding Organic Food in German-Speaking Countries and the United States. Food Quality and Preference, 2020, 103912 more…
  • Menapace, Luisa; Raffaelli, Roberta: Unraveling hypothetical bias in discrete choice experiments. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 176, 2020, 416-430 more…
  • Ola, Oreoluwa; Menapace, Luisa: Smallholders' perceptions and preferences for market attributes promoting sustained participation in modern agricultural value chains. Food Policy 97, 2020, 101962 more…
  • Ola, Oreoluwa; Menapace, Luisa: A meta-analysis understanding smallholder entry into high-value markets. World Development 135, 2020, 105079 more…
  • Ola, Oreoluwa; Menapace, Luisa: Revisiting constraints to smallholder participation in high‐value markets: A best‐worst scaling approach. Agricultural Economics, 2020 more…

2019

  • Ola, Oreoluwa; Menapace, Luisa; Benjamin, Emmanuel; Lang, Hannes: Determinants of the environmental conservation and poverty alleviation objectives of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs. Ecosystem Services 35, 2019, 52-66 more…

2018

  • Raffaelli, R.; Menapace, L.: Indirect questioning as a debiasing mechanism in preference elicitation for sustainable food? First evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment. 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists, 2018Vancouver, Kanada more…
  • Rahbauer, Sebastian; Menapace, Luisa; Menrad, Klaus; Lang, Hannes: Determinants for the adoption of green electricity by German SMEs – An empirical examination. Energy Policy 123, 2018, 533-543 more…
  • Rosburg, Alicia; Menapace, Luisa: Factors Influencing Corn Fungicide Treatment Decisions. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 43 (2), 2018, 151-171 more…

2017

  • Bonanno, Alessandro; Russo, Carlo; Menapace, Luisa: Market power and bargaining in agrifood markets: A review of emerging topics and tools. Agribusiness 34 (1), 2017, 6-23 more…
  • Menapace, Luisa; Raffaelli, Roberta: Preferences for locally grown products: evidence from a natural field experiment. European Review of Agricultural Economics 44 (2), 2017, 255-284 more…

2016

  • Rahbauer, Sebastian; Menapace, Luisa; Menrad, Klaus; Decker, Thomas: Adoption of green electricity by German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – a qualitative analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production 129, 2016, 102-112 more…

2015

  • Luisa Menapace, Roberta Raffaelli: Does Prelec Bayesian Truth Serum prevent Social Desirability Bias in Choice Experiments? International Choice Modelling Conference, International Choice Modelling Conference 2015, 2015Austin TX, USA more…
  • Menapace, L., G. Colson and R. Raffaelli: Climate Change Beliefs and Perceptions of Agricultural Risks: An Application of the Exchangeability Method. Global Environmental Change 35, 2015, 35:70-81 more…
  • Menapace, L.; G. Colson; R. Raffaelli: A comparison of hypothetical risk attitude elicitation instruments for explaining farmer crop insurance purchases. European Review of Agricultural Economics 43 (1), 2015, 43(1):113-134 more…

2014

  • Luisa Menapace, Greg Colson, Roberta Raffaelli: Farmers' Climate Change Risk Perceptions: An Application of the Exchangeability Method. EAAE 2014 Congress ‘Agri-Food and Rural Innovations for Healthier Societies, 2014Ljubljana, Slowenien more…
  • Menapace, L. and G. Moschini: Strength of Protection for Geographical Indications: Promotion Incentives and Welfare Effects. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 96 (4), 2014, 96(4):1030-48 more…

2013

  • Menapace, L., G. Colson, and R. Raffaelli: Risk Aversion, Subjective Beliefs, and Farmer Risk Management Strategies. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 95 (2), 2013, 95(2):384-389 more…

2012

  • Colson, G., and L. Menapace: Multiple Receptor Ambient Monitoring and Firm Compliance with Environmental Taxes under Budget-Driven and Target-Driven Regulatory Missions. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 64 (3), 2012, 64(3): 390-401 more…
  • Grebitus, C., Colson, G., and L. Menapace: A comparison of hypothetical survey rankings with consumer shopping behavior and product knowledge. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 44 (1), 2012, 44(1):35-47 more…
  • Menapace, L., and G. Moschini: Quality certification by Geographical Indications, trademarks and firm reputation. European Review of Agricultural Economics 39 (4), 2012, 39(4):539-566 more…

2011

  • Grebitus, C., Menapace, L., and M. Bruhn: Consumers’ use of seals of approval and origin information: Evidence from the German pork market. Agribusiness: An International Journal 27 (4), 2011, 27(4):478-492 more…
  • Menapace, L., Colson, G., Grebitus, C., and M. Facendola: Consumers’ preferences for geographical origin labels: evidence from the Canadian olive oil market. European Review of Agricultural Economics 38 (2), 2011, 38(2):193-212 more…

2008

  • Moschini, G., Menapace L., and D. Pick: Geographical Indications and the competitive provision of quality in agricultural markets. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90 (3), 2008, 794-812 more…

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Prof. Ph.D. Luisa Menapace