Faculty of
Agriculture

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• Research interest
• Academic education
• Employment history
• Honors and memberships
• Publications and Conference Contributions

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• Personnel of the Chair of Economic and Agricultural Policy

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Christian Götz Agricultural Economist (Dipl.-Ing. agr) Email: Complete CV for download Phone: +49-228-73 2323 Fax: +49-228-73 4693

Research interest

• The economics of World Trade Organization dispute settlement and negotiations
• The multilateral trading system and international trade
• Game theory and Multi-agent modelling
• Econometrics

Academic education

Since 11/2004	Research assistance at the Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
10/1998 - 06/2004	Studies of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Bonn with specialisation on agricultural economics and policy information systems Master Thesis: Convergence properties of dynamic market models with adaptive price-expectation and Nerlovean partial adjustment of supply Degree: Dipl.-Ing. agr. (Agricultural Economist)
06/1997	Abitur (German university entrance qualification), Megina Gymnasium, Mayen, Germany

Employment history

Since 11/2004	Research assistance at the Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
04/2002 - 07/2004	Assistant teacher for Economics (Micro- and Macroeconomics for undergraduate students), Institute for Economic and Agricultural Policy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
11/2002 - 08/2003	Student assistance at the Institute for Economic and Agricultural Policy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
08/2000 - 07/2001	Internship in agriculture at Runkler GbR, D-57614 Woldert, Germany and Haus Bollheim, D-53909 Zülpich, Germany; Completed with final exmination
11/1997 - 08/1998	Compulsory military service

 

Honors and memberships

• Best Paper Award 2008 of the Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaues e.V. (GEWISOLA), 48th Annual Meeting, Bonn, Germany, September 26, 2008.
• Travel Grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Science Foundation/DFG) in 2007 and 2008
• Member of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)

Publications and conference constributions

Journal articles

Götz C., Heckelei T. and B. Rudloff (2010): What makes Countries initiate WTO disputes on food-related issues?, Food Policy, Vol. 35, pp. 154-162.

Conference contributions

Götz C. and T. Heckelei (2010): Determinants of bilateral food related disputes,
Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association's 2010 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting, Denver, USA, July 25-27, 2010.

Götz C. and T. Heckelei (2009): The determinants of bilateral World Trade Organization disputes in the agro-food sector,
Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association's 2009 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, USA, July 26-28, 2009.

Götz C. and T. Heckelei (2008): What turns WTO Members into complainants and defendants? - The determinants of WTO-disputes in the agro-food sector,
Presentation on research in progress prepared for the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium Winter Meeting 2008, Scottsdale, USA, December 7-9, 2008.

Götz C., Heckelei T. and B. Rudloff (2008): What makes Countries initiate WTO disputes on food-related issues?,
Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the 48th Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaues e.V. (GEWISOLA) 2008 Annual Meeting, Bonn, Germany, September 24-26, 2008.

Götz C., Heckelei T. and B. Bettina (2008): What makes countries initiate WTO disputes on food-related issues?,
Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the XIIth European Association of Agricultural Economists 2008 International Congress, Ghent, Belgium, August 26-29, 2008.

Götz C., Heckelei T. and B. Rudloff (2007): What makes Countries initiate WTO disputes on food-related measures?,
Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Portland, USA, July 29-August 1, 2007.

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Last updated: Mon, February 21, 2011

News

• Special issue of the journal World Economy on Non-Tariff-Measures with contributions of researchers in the institute Beghin, J. and Orden, D. (Guest Eds.)(2012):
  "NTMs, Agricultural and Food Trade, and Competitiveness", Special Issue of The World Economy (forthcoming)
• Individual grant by DFG (German Science Foundation) "Analysis of dairy production systems differentiated by location; bewilligt Principal investigators Christine Wieck and Thomas Heckelei, Doctoral student Yyonne Zavelberg, 3/2012-3/2015
• Individual grant by DFG (German Science Foundation) "The relation between indicators for the crediting of emission rights and abatement costs -a systematic modelling approach for dairy farms" Principal investigators Karin Holm-Müller and Wolfgang Britz, Doctoral student Bernd Lengers, 11/2011-11/2014

Recent publications

• Policy reform and agricultural land abandonment in the EU Renwick, A., Jansson, T., Verburg, P. H., Revoredo-Giha, C., Britz, W., Gocht, A. and McCracken, D., (2012):
  "Policy reform and agricultural land abandonment in the EU", Land Use Policy, 30 (2013) 446 - 457, doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.04.005
• EU-Wide (Regional and Farm Level) Effects of Premium Decoupling and Harmonisation Following the Health Check Reform Britz, W., Gocht, A., Pèrez Dominguez, I., Jansson, T., Grosche, S. und Zhao, N.(2012):
  "EU-Wide (Regional and Farm Level) Effects of Premium Decoupling and Harmonisation Following the Health Check Reform", German Journal of Agricultural Economics61, p. 44-56
• TRQ-complications: who gets the benefits when the EU liberalizes Mercosur's access to the beef markets? F. Junker and T. Heckelei(2012):
  "TRQ-complications: who gets the benefits when the EU liberalizes Mercosur's access to the beef markets?", Agricultural Economics 43(2), p. 215-231
• Modelling Regional Input Markets With Numerous Processing Plants: The Case Of Green Maize For Biogas Production In Germany R. Delzeit, W. Britz and H. Holm-Müller(2011):
  "Modelling Regional Input Markets With Numerous Processing Plants: The Case Of Green Maize For Biogas Production In Germany", Environmental Modelling & Software 32, p. 74-84
• Estimating irrigation water demand in the Moroccan Drâa Valley using contingent valuation Storm, H., T. Heckelei and C. Heidecke (2011):
  "Estimating irrigation water demand in the Moroccan Drâa Valley using contingent valuation", Journal of Environmental Management 92(10), p. 2803-2809
• Scale changes and model linking methods for integrated assessment of agri-environmental systems Ewert, F., M. Van Ittersum, T. Heckelei, O. Therond, I. Bezlepkina and E. Andersen (2011):
  "Scale changes and model linking methods for integrated assessment of agri-environmental systems", Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 142(1-2), p. 6-17
• Farm, land, and soil nitrogen budgets for agriculture in Europe calculated with CAPRI Leip, A., W. Britz, F. Weiss and W. de Vries (2011):
  "Farm, land, and soil nitrogen budgets for agriculture in Europe calculated with CAPRI", Environmental Pollution 159(11), p. 3243-3253
• Foreign Direct Investment and the Performance of European Agribusiness Firms L. Adenäuer and T. Heckelei (2011):
  "Foreign Direct Investment and the Performance of European Agribusiness Firms", Journal of Agricultural Economics 62(3), p. 639-654