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Simon W. Schlueter

Agricultural Economist

Phone: +49-228-73 2332
Fax: +49-228-73 4693
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Research interest:

  • Institutions and international agricultural trade
  • Multilateralism and regionalism
  • Quantitative analysis of NTMs: Impacts of standards and regulations on agricultural markets and trade
  • Trade and animal diseases: Measures of prevention and control

Resarch projects:

  • NTM-Impact: Assessment of the impacts of non-tariff measures - NTMs on the competitiveness of the EU and selected trade partners, 2009-2011, 7th Framework Research Project, DG-Research
  • CCAT: Cross Compliance Assessment Tool: Development of instruments assessing the impact of implementation of cross compliance on the agricultural sector, 2006-2009, 6th Framework Research Project, DG-Research
  • Managing Risk: Cross border development and testing of effective tools for prevention and control of animal diseases, 2006-2008, EU Interreg IIIA
  • Doctoral project: Impacts of technical regulations on agricultural trade - A gravity model approach

Academic education:

04/2001 - 09/2005 Agricultural Science (specialisation on agricultural economics and policy), University of Bonn
08/2004 - 01/2005 ERASMUS/SOKRATES exchange
University of Latvia - EuroFaculty, Riga
Latvia University of Agriculture, Jelgava

Employments:

since 03/2011 Office manager and research assistance at the Member of the Bundestag Marlene Mortler, Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin
11/2005 - 02/2011 Research assistance at the Institute for Food and Resource Economics, Department of Economic and Agricultural Policy, University of Bonn
09/2007 - 06/2008 Research assistance at the Institute of Animal Science, Preventive Health Management Group, University of Bonn
05/2005 - 06/2005 Internship at the Permanent Mission of Germany in Geneva, Division WTO
11/2003 - 08/2004 Student assistance, Institute for Agricultural Policy, University of Bonn
since 08/2000 Self-employed farmer, Huf'schenhof, Kleve

Honors and memberships:

  • Travel Grant Theodor Brinkmann Graduate School 2009
  • College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Scholarship 2000-2001, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
  • International Association of Agricultural Economics (IAAE)
  • Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft (DLG)

Professional activities:

  • Journal Referee: European Review of Agricultural Economics

Presentations/Conference contributions:

13.12. - 15.12.2009 Paper presented at the IATRC 2009 Annaul Meeting, Fort Myers, USA
Regulatory SPS instruments in meat trade
17.08. - 22.08.2009 Paper presented at the Mini-symposium "Upcoming research avenues for non-tariff measures in agricultural trade", IAAE 2009 Conference, Beijing, China
Framework for analyzing regulations and standards in the NTM-Impact project
26.07. - 28.07.2009 Invited paper presented at the AAEA&ACCI 2009 Joint Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, USA
Regulatory policies in meat trade - Is there evidence for least trade-distorting sanitary regulations?
04.09 - 05.09.2007 Paper presented at the EAAE PhD Workshop, Rennes, France
Impacts of technical regulations on trade with poultry meat - A gravity model approach

Papers:

Rau, M.-L., Shutes, K., Schlueter, S.W. (2010): Index of heterogeneity of requirements in international agri-food trade. NTM-Impact Working paper No. 10/01, EU 7th Framework Programme, Project No.227202.

Schlueter, S.W., Wieck, C., and T. Heckelei (2009): Regulatory policies is meat trade: Is there evidence for least trade-distorting sanitary regulations? American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(5):1484-1490.

Schlueter, S.W., Rau, M.-L., Wieck, C., Humphrey, J., Colen, L., and T. Heckelei (2009): Analytical framework for the NTM-Impact Project. NTM-Impact Working paper No. 09/02, EU 7th Framework Programme, Project No.227202.

Schlueter, S.W., Wieck, C., and T. Heckelei (2009): Regulatory SPS instruments in meat trade. Discussion Paper 2009:1, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn

Schlueter, S.W. (2008): Estimating the impact of technical regulations to trade: A review of theory and methods. Working paper

Last updated: Thursday, June 30, 2011