Finger, Robert
Professor
Department of Environmental Systems Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Robert Finger is a member of the Department of Management, Technology and Economics as well as Environmental Systems Science. Since 2016, Robert Finger holds the Chair of Agricultural Economics and Policy at ETH Zurich (www.aecp.ethz.ch) Robert Finger studied Economics at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder, received a PhD in Agricultural Economics from ETH Zurich in 2009 and was PostDoc in the Agri-food and Agri-environmental Economics Group of ETH Zurich till 2011. Before returning to ETH Zurich, he was Assistant Professor in the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group at Wageningen University (2012-2013) and Head of the Production Economics Group at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität of Bonn (2014-2015).
Research Interest
The research focus of Robert Finger is on risks and risk management in agriculture, evaluation and design of agricultural policies, sustainable farm-environment interactions and agri-environmental measures.
Publications
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A Meta-Analysis on the Elasticity of Demand for Pesticides Thomas G. Böcker and Robert Finger Journal of Agricultural Economics (JAE), 68 (2): 518-533, Nottingham: Wiley, 2017.
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Interaction effects of targeted agri-environmental payments on non-marketed goods and services under climate change in a mountain region Robert Huber, Rebecca Snell, François Monin, Sybil H. Brunner, Dirk R. Schmatz and Robert Finger Land use policy, 66: 49-60, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2017.
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The Swiss payment for milk processed into cheese: ex-post and ex-ante analysis Robert Finger, Giulia Listorti and Axel Tonini Agricultural Economics, 48 (4): 437-448, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
