The present dissertation is twofold and takes up several issues in two separate and independent articles. In chapter II, the hedging effectiveness of weather index-based insurance with regard to aggregation biases in the underlying risk exposure of aggregated yield time series is presented. The...

Obwohl regelmäßig 50% der Absolventen der Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften in Deutschland weiblich sind, wird nur ca. jedes zehnte landwirtschaftliche Unternehmen von einer Frau geleitet. Dies wirft zwei zentrale Fragen auf: Werden qualifizierte Frauen von den derzeitigen...

Traditionell werden ökonomische Experimente im Labor durchgeführt. In der letzten Zeit nimmt die Bedeutung von Extralaborexperimenten zu. Extralaborexperimente sind Experimente, die von der Laborumgebung abweichen. Dazu zählen internetbasierte Experimente. Diese ermöglichen es,...

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 global agri-food system is experiencing a far-reaching transformation process. The consequences for small, asset-poor farmers are a topic of special concern in development oriented agricultural research. One main characteristic of the trend is the increasing importance of food safety and...

Strategic management (STM) is recognized as an important element for firms’ success; however, small firms, especially in agribusiness, have widely been overlooked because it is often thought that a systematic STM is exclusively for large corporate firms. Firms engage in STM practices such as...