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Thomas Heckelei

Thomas Heckelei

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
35
Citations
6177
World Ranking
2933
National Ranking
99

Overview

Thomas Heckelei is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany and conducts research primarily within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work covers several subfields including General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecology.

The scientist's research topics encompass Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Agricultural Economics and Policy, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets, Land Rights and Reforms, and Agricultural Risk and Resilience.

They have contributed to multiple papers recently, including:

  • "Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies - integrating farm-level evidence and system interaction" (2021, Agricultural Systems)
  • "Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale" (2020, Global Environmental Change)
  • "Paying the price for environmentally sustainable and healthy EU diets" (2020, Global Food Security)
  • "Agricultural Trade and Environmental Sustainability" (2021, Annual Review of Resource Economics)
  • "COVID-19 in rural Africa: Food access disruptions, food insecurity and coping strategies in Kenya, Namibia, and Tanzania" (2022, Agricultural Economics)

Frequent publication venues for Thomas Heckelei include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • Agricultural Economics
  • AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Agricultural Systems

Collaborations with other researchers are evident, with frequent co-authors being Kathy Baylis, Hugo Storm, Sebastian Rasch, Martin Paul Jr. Tabe-Ojong, and Yaghoob Jafari.

Thomas Heckelei has also contributed to book publications, including a recent title published by Elsevier BV: "Cooperative Membership and Exposure to Role Models: Implications for Income and Asset Aspirations" (2023).

Best Publications

  • Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

    Berkeley Hill;Alan Greer;Thomas Heckelei;Peter Witze

  • Integrated assessment of agricultural systems: a component - based framework for the European Union (Seamless)

    Martin K. van Ittersum;Frank Ewert;Thomas Heckelei;Jacques Wery

  • Estimation of constrained optimisation models for agricultural supply analysis based on generalised maximum entropy

    Thomas Heckelei;Hendrik Wolff

  • Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies - integrating farm-level evidence and system interaction

    Linmei Shang;Thomas Heckelei;Maria K. Gerullis;Jan Börner

  • FSSIM, a bio-economic farm model for simulating the response of EU farming systems to agricultural and environmental policies

    Kamel Louhichi;Argyris Kanellopoulos;Sander Janssen;Guillermo Flichman

  • Machine Learning in Agricultural and Applied Economics

    Hugo Storm;Kathy Baylis;Thomas Heckelei

  • Models Based on Positive Mathematical Programming: State of the Art and Further Extensions

    Thomas Heckelei;Wolfgang Britz

  • Positive Mathematical Programming Approaches - Recent Developments in Literature and Applied Modelling

    Thomas Heckelei;Wolfgang Britz;Yinan Zhang

  • Positive Mathematical Programming with Multiple Data Points: A Cross-Sectional Estimation Procedure

    Thomas Heckelei;Wolfgang Britz

  • Structural change of European dairy farms - A cross-regional analysis

    Andrea Zimmermann;Thomas Heckelei

  • Modelling farm structural change for integrated ex-ante assessment: review of methods and determinants.

    Andrea Zimmermann;Thomas Heckelei;Ignacio Pérez Domínguez

  • A methodology for enhanced flexibility of integrated assessment in agriculture

    Frank Ewert;Frank Ewert;Martin K. van Ittersum;Irina Bezlepkina;Olivier Therond

  • Testing for the Presence of Financial Constraints in US Agricultural Cooperatives: An Investment Behaviour Approach

    Fabio R. Chaddad;Michael L. Cook;Thomas Heckelei

  • Regulatory Policies in Meat Trade: Is There Evidence for Least Trade-distorting Sanitary Regulations?

    Simon W. Schlueter;Christine Wieck;Thomas Heckelei

  • A Generic Bio-Economic Farm Model for Environmental and Economic Assessment of Agricultural Systems

    Sander Janssen;Kamel Louhichi;Argyris Kanellopoulos;Peter Zander

  • Assessing the Forecasting Performance of a Generic Bio-Economic Farm Model Calibrated With Two Different PMP Variants

    Argyris Kanellopoulos;Paul Berentsen;Thomas Heckelei;Martin Van Ittersum

  • Concept and explorative application of an EU-wide, regional agricultural sector model (CAPRI-Project).

    T. Heckelei;W. Britz;H. P. Witzke;W. Henrichsmeyer

  • Estimating a Primal Model of Regional Crop Supply in the European Union

    Torbjörn Jansson;Thomas Heckelei

  • Methodology to translate policy assessment problems into scenarios: the example of the SEAMLESS integrated framework

    Olivier Therond;Hatem Belhouchette;Sander Janssen;Kamel Louhichi

  • Direct Payments, Spatial Competition, and Farm Survival in Norway

    Hugo Storm;Klaus Mittenzwei;Thomas Heckelei

  • Determinants, differentiation, and development of short-term marginal costs in dairy production: an empirical analysis for selected regions of the EU

    Christine Wieck;Thomas Heckelei

  • Effect of off‐farm income on smallholder commercialization: panel evidence from rural households in Ethiopia

    Tesfaye Berhanu Woldeyohanes;Thomas Heckelei;Yves Surry

  • Explaining farm structural change in the European agriculture: a novel analytical framework

    Sebastian Neuenfeldt;Alexander Gocht;Thomas Heckelei;Pavel Ciaian

  • Metrics, models and foresight for European sustainable food and nutrition security: the vision of the SUSFANS project

    Martine Rutten;Thom J. Achterbosch;Imke J.M. de Boer;Jesus Crespo Cuaresma

  • A BAYESIAN ALTERNATIVE TO GENERALIZED CROSS ENTROPY SOLUTIONS FOR UNDERDETERMINED ECONOMETRIC MODELS

    Thomas Heckelei;Ronald C. Mittelhammer;Torbjorn Jansson

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin K. van Ittersum
Martin K. van Ittersum Wageningen University & Research
Frank Ewert
Frank Ewert University of Bonn
M.K. van Ittersum
M.K. van Ittersum Wageningen University & Research
Jacques Wery
Jacques Wery Institut Agro, France
Alfons Oude Lansink
Alfons Oude Lansink Wageningen University & Research
Joost Wolf
Joost Wolf Wageningen University & Research
Adrian Leip
Adrian Leip Max Planck Society
Pavel Ciaian
Pavel Ciaian Joint Research Center
Andrea Emilio Rizzoli
Andrea Emilio Rizzoli Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research
Johanna M. Geleijnse
Johanna M. Geleijnse Wageningen University & Research

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