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Prof. Dr. Sauer and Sebastian Weber in India and Bangladesh for research stay (18/09-25/09)

After successful visits in India and Nepal in November 2016 and March 2017, Prof. Dr. Sauer and Sebastian Weber will be travelling to India again between September 18 and 25, 2017. An additional stop will be in Bangladesh. The main purpose of the trip is the development of the chair’s cooperation…

Prof. Johannes Sauer chairs a working group dealing with the modelling of innovations on microlevel in the course of a summer academy of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" in Greifswald (20/8-2/9)

We are pleased to welcome Mr. Singh in our team (junior guest researcher)

Mr. Mahendra Singh is from India and will join our team in the months of August and September as a junior guest researcher. He recently completed his M.Sc. degree in Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in India and now plans to pursue a PhD in the area of "Effectiveness of…

We are pleased to welcome Ms. Hegde in our team (visiting researcher)

Ms. Shraddha Gurupad Hegde is from Nepal and will join our team in the months of July and August as a visiting researcher. She recently completed her master's degree in Agricultural Economics at the Punjab Agricultural University in India and now plans to start a PhD in the field of climate-smart…

New publication: Ayenew, H. Y.; Estruch, E.; Sauer, J.; Abate Kassa, G.; Schickramm, L.; Wobst, P. "Decent rural employment and farm production efficiency: empirical evidence from Tanzania and Ethiopia."

Chair welcomes Dr. Tengiz Taktakishvili as visiting researcher

Science and research are more international today than ever before. That is why our chair pursues a strategy aiming at establishing international and intercultural collaboration in research and the creation of personal and institutional networks. In this context, we are happy to welcome Dr. Tengiz…

We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Shreekant Gupta from the Delhi School of Economics in our team (Visiting Professor).

As part of the chair's South Asia activities, Prof. Dr. Shreekant Gupta from the renowned Delhi School of Economics acts as Visiting Professor at our chair from 26/06 to 07/07/2017. During his visit, he will give two guest lectures in the "Climate Change Economics" course on the "Impact of Climate…

New publication: Wuepper, D. & Sauer, J. (2017). Moving Forward in Rural Ghana: Investing in Social and Human Capital Mitigates Historical Constraints. Economic History of Developing Regions.

Professor Sauer represents the TUM School of Life Sciences at a delegation visit of the Bavarian Ministry of Economics in Iran 29/4-4/5

Junior researchers of the chair group present their work at the 91st AES Conference in Dublin

Stefan Wimmer, Michael Tröster and Philipp Mennig present their research results at the 91st annual conference of the Agricultural Economics Society in Dublin. Their work covers the fields "Technology and Productivity“ (Stefan Wimmer), "Crop Varieties / Fertiliser Decision Support Tool“ (Michael…