Research areas

Agri-food economics, rural development, and environmental economics

-Structure of agricultural holdings; production systems in dairy and beef cattle

-Agricultural markets and the agri-food chain

-Dynamics of agricultural structures; land use and mobility

-Evaluation of agricultural policies; the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy

-Dynamics of rural areas; rural development policies

-Environmental economics; environmental policies in agriculture

Governance, public economics, and regional economics

-Regional and local financing systems; political and fiscal decentralisation

-Analysis, design, and evaluation of public policies

-Regional and local development

-Socioeconomic impact of demographic trends

-Innovation systems and policies supporting R&D