Prof. Dr. Johannes Sauer
Professor of Production and Resource Economics
| Phone: | 08161/71-3410 |
| Fax: | 08161/71-4426 |
| Building: | Institute building II (4106) |
| Room: | GF/43 |
| E-mail: | jo.sauer[at]tum.de |
| Office hours: | by appointment |
Education
- Ph.D. Agricultural Economics “summa cum laude”, University Bonn
- M.Sc. Agricultural Economics “distinction borderline”, Imperial College London, Wye/UK
- M.Sc. Political Science and Economics, Universities Tübingen and Hamburg
Professional experience
- 2014 Visiting Professor, OECD, Paris (Staff Loan) (07-08/2014)
- since 10/2013 Full Professor (W3) and Head of Chair, TU München
- 2011-2013 Professor, Endowed Chair, CAU Kiel
- 2012 Visiting Professor, United States Department for Agriculture, Economic Research Services, Washington DC, USA (07-09/2012)
- 2011 Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley, USA (Co-operative Research Programme, Sustainable Agricultural Systems, OECD Fellowship, 06-09/2011)
- 2009-2011 Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics und Research Theme Leader, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester, UK
- 2010 Visiting Professor, USDA, Economic Research Services, Washington DC, USA (06-09/2010)
- 2009 Visiting Professor, Princeton University, Environmental Institute, USA (07-09/2009)
- 2007-2009 Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Department of Economics und Center for European Agri-Environmental Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK; Honorary Lecturer, Center for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, UK
- 2008 Visiting Professor, UC Davis and UC Berkeley, USA (04-09/2008)
- 2005-2007 Assistant/Associate Professor, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2004-2005 Senior Researcher, Center for Development Research, Bonn
- 2000-2004 Consultant/Senior Consultant, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Düsseldorf and Hamburg
Research areas
- Production, efficiency and organizational analysis
- Technology adaption and sustainable innovation
- Agri-environmental behaviour at farm level
- Risk analysis
- Economics of water resrouces and biodiversity
- Microeconometric modelling
Teaching activities
- Production theory and accounting
- Business planning in agricultural economics
- Research methods
- Production and risk management
- Production economics and management
- Applied statistics and econometrics
- Life science economics and policy
- Advanced natural resource economics
- Climate change economics
Research projects
- Dynamics of productivity growth in the OECD dairy sectors (Staff Loan, OECD, Paris)
- Technological change and scale
- Extreme events and farm behaviour
- Agri-environmental behaviour at farm level
Activities and awards
- Since 2015: Associate Editor (Editorial Board Member), European Review of Agricultural Economics
- Since 2015: Member Steering Committee Hans Eisenmann Zentrum, TUM
- Since 2015: Member Steering Committee TUM Water Cluster
- Since 10/2014: Head of Research Department Agricultural Economics, TUM
- Since 2013: Appointed Liaison Professor, German National Academic Foundation, Berlin
- Since 2012: Invited Expert Adviser, OECD Productivity Network, OECD, Paris
- 2011 Scottish Government, Peer Review College Member, Rural and Environment Research and Analysis Directorate, Edinburgh, UK
- Since 2010: Associate Editor (Editorial Board Member), Journal of Productivity Analysis
- 2010-2014, 2015-2019 UK Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC), Peer Review College Member
- 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015 Best Paper Awards, German Association of Agricultural Economists, Annual Conferences Bonn, Halle and Hohenheim
- 1999 Bill Young Postgraduate Award, Imperial College London, Best MSc 1999 (Agribusiness Management)
- 1993-1999 Full and International Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation, Berlin
Publications
- Investment, Technical Change and Efficiency - Empirical Evidence from German Dairy Production. European Review of Agricultural Economics. 2014 (with U.Latacz-Lohmann)
- A Dominance Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Beef Output and Land Use of German Dairy Farms. Agricultural Systems. 2014 (with M.Zehetmeier et al.)
- The Impact of Decoupled Subsidies on Productivity in Agriculture. Agricultural Economics. 2013, 45: 1-10 (with A.Kazukauskas, C.Newman)
- Disinvestment, Farm Size and Gradual Farm Exit. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. first published online: July 12, 2013 (with A.Kazukauskas, C.Newman, D.Clancey)
- Marketed Outputs and Non-Marketed Ecosystem Services. European Review of Agricultural Economics. first published online: December 21, 2012. print: 2013, 40 (4): 573-603 (with A.Wossink) ...more