Browsing Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften (inkl. GAUSS) by Advisor & Referee "Kneib, Thomas Prof. Dr."
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Rethinking the Challenges of Agricultural Markets – Food Prices, Innovation, and Technical Efficiency
(2024-11-05)Global agricultural markets have reached a critical point; their immediate and long-term development has never been in higher jeopardy. As the rapid growth of the world’s population, coupled with urbanization and rising ... -
Local and landscape threats to bee and wasp populations in agricultural landscapes
(2023-12-01)The transformation and intensified use of the agricultural landscape in central Germany in the past decades has led to the fragmentation and loss of semi-natural habitats, threatening biodiversity including insects. Bees ... -
Price Discovery Measures in Agricultural Economics
(2022-06-14)The present dissertationis devoted to the issue of price discovery in agricultural markets. Price discovery is considered one of the central functions of financial markets and is usually analyzed empirically for highly ... -
Accounting for Epistasis in Genomic Phenotype Prediction
(2021-06-03)Wide availability of genomic data has had a considerable impact on plant and animal breeding programs which enables the study of genotypes and their relationships with phenotypes. Improving genomic prediction accuracy is ... -
Farmers, Peers, and Traders. Application of social networks in modern agricultural systems
(2020-04-30)Social networks can serve as an instrument to link agents with each other over space and time. The emerging pattern can display the flow of information, the diffusion of technology or the trade flow of products between all ... -
Urbanization, agricultural intensification, and environmental services: A spatial analysis
(2019-11-25)Urbanization is a global trend. Currently, about half of the world's population lives in cities. According to the latest calculations, this figure is expected to grow to 68 percent (about 6.8 billion people) by 2050. ... -
Integrating Omics Data into Genomic Prediction
(2019-07-26)Prediction of genetic values plays a central role in quantitative genetics and breeding. Genomic prediction making use of genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was widely adopted to predict breeding values in ... -
Incorporating Interactions and Gene Annotation Data in Genomic Prediction
(2018-10-08)In this work, we consider theoretical and practical aspects of models incorporating interactions, so called "epistasis models''. Moreover, we follow approaches towards the incorporation of biological prior knowledge into ... -
A Bayesian approach to dynamic efficiency and productivity measurement
(2017-02-17)The vast majority of the efficiency and productivity measurement literature has been based on the static viewpoint of the firm. Few studies have developed the dynamic analog of static efficiency measurement, introducing ... -
Lost in Transition - Genetic, Transcriptomic and Breeding Aspects of Metabolic Robustness in Dairy Cows
(2016-12-12)The transition phase of dairy cows is marked by severe metabolic stress resulting from a discrepancy of a high energy demand for rapidly increasing milk production and limited feed intake. Here, a failure in metabolic ... -
The Influence of Scale on the Measurement of the Vertical Price Transmission
(2016-09-19)Measuring vertical price transmission (VPT) has become a widespread means to evaluate the performance of food value chain. To do so, agricultural economists employ time series methods on spatially aggregated data of prices ... -
Regional Heterogeneity, Geography and Agglomeration Effects in Efficiency Analysis: The Case of Dairy Farming in Europe
(2015-03-10)Natural conditions and location play an essential role in the determination of the agricultural production and its technical (in)efficiency . The present work analyzes by means of different model specifications and statistical ... -
Estimation of the Long-Run Food Price Equilibrium in Germany, the U.S. and Europe
(2013-07-31)In this thesis, so far insufficiently considered characteristics of long-run equilibriums in food markets are investigated. For this purpose, multivariate time series methodologies, which were developed for the estimation ...