Business Economics Group
Strategically placed within Wageningen University & Research, the Business Economics Group (BEC) performs research and teaches across a wide range of aspects of agricultural business economics and food supply chains.
Research
The chair group Business Economics carries out fundamental and applied research focusing on economic and management problems within the food chain. Research is categorized in the following research themes:
Education
The Business Economics group is composed of a professional team with a wide range of specializations. Students receive solid training in business economics providing them with the knowledge to address research questions in the area of the economics of farms and agribusinesses, animal health, plant health, food safety and sustainable agriculture. We encourage students to develop their own interests and to think critically.
Writing your MSc-thesis in Chile? ‘Farmers’ cooperative decision making and behaviour: the case of the distribution of water along an irrigation channel‘
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PhD Position ‘Economic and behavioural perspectives of investing in modern agricultural production systems in China’
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EAAE Seminar: Prospects for agricultural insurance in Europe
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Section Business Science
Latest publications
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Credence attributes and the quest for a higher price – A hedonic stochastic frontier approach
European Review of Agricultural Economics 46 (2019)2. - ISSN 0165-1587 - p. 163 - 192.
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Economic and epidemiological impact of different intervention strategies for subclinical and clinical mastitis
Preventive Veterinary Medicine 166 (2019). - ISSN 0167-5877 - p. 78 - 85.
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Global survey data on rice breeders’ characteristics and willingness to adopt alternative breeding methods
Data in Brief 23 (2019). - ISSN 2352-3409