Curriculum Vitae Robert Finger

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Curriculum Vitae Robert Finger Contact Email: [email protected] Address: Sonneggstrasse 33, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 632 53 92 Website: www.aecp.ethz.ch

Academic Career Since 2016

Chair of the Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2014-2015

Chair of the Production Economics Group, University of Bonn, Germany

2012-2013

Assistant Professor at the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

2012-2015

Lecturer at ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

2006-2011

Agricultural Economics Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Education 2006-2009

PhD in Agricultural Economics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

2006-2009

Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Statistics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

2001-2006

Diploma in Economics, Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, Germany

Academic Functions and Positions Since 2016

Vice Chair of the World Food System Center of ETH Zurich

Since 2016

Member of the teaching commission and admission committee for Agricultural Sciences at ETHZ Zurich

Since 2013

Editorial Board member of Agricultural Systems

Since 2013

Editorial Advisory Board member of the German Journal of Agricultural Economics

Since 2011

Editorial Board member of the Journal of Socioeconomics in Agriculture

2008-2012

Board member of the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

Memberships International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) European Association of Agricultural Economics (EAAE) Agricultural Economics Society (AES) German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA) Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (SGA-SSE)

Organization of conferences and seminars (Selection) Since 2016: Co-organizer of the Agroeconet Colloquium 2016: Programme Committee Member: Prospects for agricultural insurance in Europe. 156th EAAE Seminar, October 03-04, 2016, Wageningen (The Netherlands) 2015: Organized Session on “Heterogeneous effects of risk and risk management across scales” at the 29th Triennial Conference of the International Conference of Agricultural Economists August 9-14, 2015, Milan (Italy) 2014-2015: Seminar Series in Agricultural Production Economics, University of Bonn (Germany) 2013: Weekly economics seminar series at Wageningen University, Wageningen (The Netherlands) 2012: Organized Session on "Climate change and agriculture - modelling impacts, exploring adaptation options, identifying conflicts" at the 6th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Leipzig (Germany) 2011: Local Organizing Committee of the XIIIth Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists, Zürich (Switzerland) 2010: Conference on "Farm Income – Relevance, Measurement and Stabilization", Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Tänikon (Switzerland) 2009: Conference on "Agricultural Biotechnology - Economic, Social and Legal Aspects", Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Brig (Switzerland) 2008: 17th International Ph.D. Workshop on International Climate Policy, Zürich (Switzerland)

Project Acquisition (Selection)

2016-2020: Values of species diversity in grassland production – An ecological economic assessment (DIVERSGRASS). Funding: Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center - Mercator Fellowship Program 2016-2019: Determinants of risk management in Swiss agriculture – the example of Drosophila Suzukii (DROSOPHRISK). Funding: Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture and Task Force Drosophila Suzuki. 2016-2017. Theoretical foundations and empirical specification of decision rules in agricultural agent-based modelling approaches: Current state and future prospects. Swiss National Science Foundation. 2016-2019: Portfolio management to value grassland ecosystem goods and services in Swiss agriculture (VALUEGRASS). Funding: ETH Zurich Research Grants. 2015-2016: Pesticide use and regulation under risk considerations. Funding: Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture.

2014-2015: MisCas - Cascade Utilization of Miscanthus to increase resource efficiency. Funding: Bioeconomy Science Center (North-Rhine Westphalia). 2012-2013: Evaluation of Policy Instruments at the Swiss Milk Market. Funding: Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture. 2012: Effects of Income Insurance Schemes in Swiss Agriculture. Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation. 2010-2013: Water Demand in Swiss Agriculture, and Sustainable Adaptive Options for Land and Water Management to Mitigate Impacts of Climate Change (AGWAM). Funding: NFP 61 - Swiss National Science Foundation. 2010-2011: 5 Year Ex-Post POSTCOSECHA Impact Study Central America. Funding: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. 2009-2010: Assessment of the economic performance of GM crops worldwide. Funding: Directorate-General for the Environment of the European Commission. 2009-2011: Climate Change and Agricultural Production Risks (AGRISK). Funding: NCCR Climate - Swiss National Science Foundation.

Referee activities (selection) Selected Journals African Technology Development Forum (ATDF) Journal, AgBioForum, Agribusiness: an International Journal, Agricultural and Food Science, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Agricultural Finance Review, Agricultural Systems, Agricultural Water Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Appetite, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Climate and Development, Climatic Change, Ecological Economics, Econometrics, Economic Modeling, Empirica - Journal of European Economics, Environment and Development Economics, European Journal of Agronomy, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Food Policy, German Journal of Agricultural Economics, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Agrarökonomie, Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics, Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Journal of Statistical Research, Land Use Policy, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Natural Resources Forum, NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, Progress in Physical Geography, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, Tourism Management, Water Resources Reseaerch, Yearbook of Socioeconomics in Agriculture Conferences and Institutions: EAAE Congress 2008, 2011, Swiss Agricultural Economics Conference (continuous reviewer since 2009), Annual Conference of the German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA) 2016, 6th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, PhD Day Wageningen School of Social Science 2012, Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture, Wageningen School of Social Science, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Springer Books

Teaching and Supervision Current Teaching at ETH Zurich Bachelor (in German) 

World Food System



Introduction to Agricultural Management



Production, Investment and Risk Management

Master (in English) 

Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Agriculture



Research Project in Food and Resource Economics



Current Topics in Agricultural Economics and Policy



Interdisciplinary Project Work

PhD Student Supervision (Daily Supervisor) 

Tobias Dalhaus (ETH Zurich). Ongoing



Niklas Möhring (ETH Zurich). Ongoing



Manuela Meraner (ETH Zurich). Ongoing



Thomas Böcker (University of Bonn). Ongoing



Alisa Kostrova (University of Bonn). Ongoing



Sarah Conradt (ETH Zurich). 2012-2014



Ines Kapphan (ETH Zurich). 2009-2012



Niklaus Lehmann (ETH Zurich). 2009-2012

Invited Talks 1. Finger, R., Böcker, T. (2016). Ökonomische Anreize zur Mengensteuerung im Pflanzenschutz. Workshop zu BestManagement-Praktiken bei der Anwendung von Glyphosat. May 24/25 2016, Göttingen, Germany. 2. Finger, R. (2016). Risiko und Risikomanagement: Perspektiven für die Schweizer Landwirtschaft. Tagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarsoziologie: Umgang mit Unsicherheit in der Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft. March 31-April 01, 2016, Grangeneuve, Switzerland 3. Finger, R. (2016). Die Herausforderungen für die agrarökonomische Forschung in der Schweiz. Kolloquium des Amtes für Landschaft und Natur, Kanton Zürich, March 17, 2016, Zürich, Switzerland. 4. Finger, R., Buchmann, N. (2014). Risk reducing effects of species diversity in grassland production: integrating economic and ecological assessments. Technical University of Munich, Germany, Weihenstephan Socioeconomic Colloquium, November 6, 2014, Freising, Germany. 5. Finger, R. (2014). Betriebswirtschaftliche Massnahmen zum Umgang mit Trockenheitsrisiken. 1. AgroscopeNachhaltigkeitstagung 2014 – ‚Wasser in der Landwirtschaft – heute und künftig, Agrocsope – Institute for Sustainability Sciences, January 19, 2014, Zurich, Switzerland. 6. Finger, R., Briner, S., Calanca, P. (2013). Assessing climate change impacts on managed grassland production using a bio-economic modelling approach, International Grassland Congress, September 15-19, 2013, Sydney, Australia. 7. Finger, R., Briner, S., Peerlings, J. (2013). Effects of changes in the processing allowance for cheese production on producer milk prices – an empirical analysis for three cheese types in Switzerland, workshop on Price transmission tools used in policy evaluation, Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture, October 24, 2013, Bern, Switzerland. 8. Finger, R. (2013). The role of downside risks in crop management decisions and its integration in bio-economic models, Agrarökonomisches Seminar, University of Göttingen, June 25, 2013, Göttingen, Germany. 9. Lehmann, N., Finger, R. (2013). Analyzing impacts of climate change and agri-environmental policy using bioeconomic modeling, Agrar- und Ernährungsökonomisches Kolloquium, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, January 15, 2013, Kiel, Germany (also presented at the Cluster Economics Seminars, Wageningen University, November 15, 2012). 10. Finger, R. (2011). Gewinner und Verlierer: Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die landwirtschaftlichen Produktionsbedingungen und Produktionsrisiken, Klimastrategie Landwirtschaft, Organized by the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture, October 21, 2011, Zollikofen, Switzerland. 11. Finger, R. (2011). Mitigation of and adaptation to price volatility: How can agriculture contribute to more stability? How can individual producers protect themselves?, Symposium on "Food Price Volatility and Food Security”, Organized by the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture, October 11, 2011, Bern, Switzerland. 12. Finger, R. (2011) Integrating biophysical and economic approaches to model managed agro-ecosystem, International Workshop on Ecohydrology and Sustainability in Seasonally Dry Ecosystems, June 13-14, 2011, Duke University, Durham (NC), USA. 13. Finger, R. (2008). Bewässerung in der Getreideproduktion als Anpassungsmassnahme an den Klimawandel - Eine ökonomische Perspektive für die Schweiz, ART-Conference 2008: Challenge Climate Change, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon (ART), January 18, 2008, Zurich, Switzerland.

Peer Reviewed Publications Full list of peer reviewed journal articles (as of August 2016) 1. Böcker, T., Finger, R. (2017). A Meta-Analysis on the Elasticity of Demand for Pesticides. Journal of Agricultural Economics (In Press) 2. Dalhaus, T., Finger, R. (2016). Can Gridded Precipitation Data and Phenological Observations Reduce Basis Risk of Weather Index-based Insurance? Weather, Climate and Society (In Press) 3. Böcker, T., Finger, R. (2016). European Pesticide Tax Schemes in Comparison: An Analysis of Experiences and Developments. Sustainability 8(4), 378; doi: 10.3390/su8040378 4. El Benni, N., Finger, R., Meuwissen, M. (2016). Potential effects of the Income Stabilization Tool (IST) in Swiss agriculture. European Review of Agricultural Economics 43: 475-502 5. Finger, R. (2016). Assessment of uncertain returns from investment in short rotation coppice using risk adjusted discount rates. Biomass and Bioenergy 85: 320-326 6. Witzel, C.P., Finger, R. (2016). Economic evaluation of Miscanthus production - A review. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 53: 681–696 7. Conradt, S., Finger, R., Spörri, M. (2015). Flexible weather index-based insurance design. Climate Risk Management 10: 106–117 8. Huber, R., Flury, C., Finger, R. (2015). Factors affecting farm growth intentions of family farms in mountain regions: Empirical evidence for Central Switzerland. Land Use Policy 47: 188–197 9. Finger, R., Buchmann, N. (2015). An ecological economic assessment of risk-reducing effects of species diversity in managed grasslands. Ecological Economics 110: 89–97 10. Meraner, M., Heijman, W., Kuhlman, T., Finger, R. (2015). Determinants of farm diversification in the Netherlands. Land Use Policy 42: 767–780 11. Conradt, S., Finger, R., Bokusheva, R. (2015). Tailored to the extremes: Quantile regression for index-based insurance contract design. Agricultural Economics 46: 1-11 12. Briner, S., Lehmann, N., Finger, R. (2015). Bio-economic modeling of decisions under yield and price risk for suckler cow farms. Animal Production Science 55(1):64-73 13. Finger, R., Calanca, P., Briner, S. (2014). Implications of risk attitude and climate change for optimal grassland management: a case study for Switzerland. Crop & Pasture Science 65: 576-582 14. Conradt, S., Bokusheva, R., Finger, R., Kussaiynov, T. (2014). Yield Trend Estimation in the Presence of Farm Heterogeneity and Non-linear Technological Change. Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 53 2: 121140. 15. Finger, R., El Benni, N. (2014). A note on the effects of the Income Stabilisation Tool on income inequality in agriculture. Journal of Agricultural Economics 65(3): 739-745. 16. Pelka, N., Musshoff, O., Finger, R. (2014). Hedging effectiveness of weather index-based insurance in China. China Agricultural Economic Review 6(2): 212-228. 17. Finger, R. (2014). Risk considerations in the assessment of low-input crop production techniques: an example from Swiss wheat production. International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology 10: 6377. 18. Lehmann, N., Finger, R. (2014). Economic and environmental assessment of irrigation water policies: A bioeconomic simulation study. Environmental Modelling & Software 51: 112-122. 19. El Benni, N., Finger, R. (2014). Where is the risk? Price, yield and cost risk in Swiss crop production. Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies 95(3): 299-326.

20. Comoé, H., Finger, R., Barjolle, D. (2014). Farm Management Decision and Response to Climate Variability and Change in Côte d'Ivoire. Mitigation and Adaptation of Strategies for Global Change. 19 (2): 123-142. 21. Aepli, M., Finger, R. (2013). Determinants of sheep and goat meat consumption in Switzerland. Agricultural and Food Economics 1, 11. 22. Lehmann, N., Briner, S., Finger, R. (2013). The impact of climate and price risks on agricultural land use and crop management decisions. Land Use Policy 35: 119–130 23. Lehmann, N., Finger, R., Klein, T., Calanca, P. (2013). Sample size requirements for assessing statistical moments of simulated crop yield distributions. Agriculture 3: 210-220 24. Finger, R. (2013). Expanding risk consideration in integrated models - the role of downside risk aversion in irrigation decisions. Environmental Modelling & Software 43: 169–172. 25. Lehmann, N. Finger, R. (2013). Evaluating water policy options in agriculture: A whole-farm study for the Broye river basin (Switzerland). Irrigation and Drainage 62(4): 396-406 26. Finger, R., Borer, A. (2013). Cooperative management of a traditional irrigation system in the Swiss Alps. Social Sciences 2(1): 1-19. 27. Lehmann, N., Finger, R., Klein, T., Calanca, P. Walter, A. (2013). Adapting crop management practices to climate change: Modeling optimal solutions at the field scale. Agricultural Systems 117: 55-65. 28. Finger, R. (2013). More than the mean - A note on heterogeneity aspects in the assessment of water footprints. Ecological Indicators 29: 145-147. 29. Briner, S., Finger. R. (2013). The impact of price and production risks on optimal farm plans in Swiss dairy production considering two different milk quota systems. Journal of Dairy Science 96(4): 2234–2246 30. Finger, R. (2013). Investigating the performance of different estimation techniques for crop yield data analysis in crop insurance applications. Agricultural Economics 44: 217–230. 31. Finger, R., Gilgen A., Prechsl, U., Buchmann, N. (2013). An economic assessment of drought effects on three grassland systems in Switzerland. Regional Environmental Change 13(2) 365-374 32. El Benni, N., Finger, R. (2013). Gross Revenue risk in Swiss dairy farming. Journal of Dairy Science 96(2): 936–948. 33. El Benni, N., Finger, R. (2013). The effect of agricultural policy reforms on income inequality in Swiss agriculture - An analysis for valley, hill and mountain regions. Journal of Policy Modeling 35(4): 638–651. 34. Finger, R., El Benni, N. (2013). Farmers' Adoption of Extensive Wheat Production - Determinants and Implications. Land Use Policy 30(1): 206-213. 35. Finger, R., El Benni, N. (2012). A Note on Price Risks in Swiss Crop Production – Empirical Results and Comparisons with other Countries. Yearbook of Socioeconomics in Agriculture 2012: 131 –151. 36. Heimfarth, L., Finger, R., Musshoff, O. (2012). Hedging weather risk on aggregated and individual farm-level – Pitfalls of aggregation biases on the evaluation of weather index-based insurance. Agricultural Finance Review 72(3): 471 - 487 37. Finger, R. (2012). Effects of crop acreage and aggregation level on price-yield correlations. Agricultural Finance Review 72(3): 436 - 455. 38. Finger, R., Lehmann, N. (2012). Policy reforms to promote efficient and sustainable water use in Swiss agriculture. Water Policy 14(5): 887-901. 39. Bokusheva, R., Finger, R., Fischler, M., Berlin, R., Marín, Y., Pérez, F., Paiz, F. (2012). Factors determining the adoption and impact of a postharvest storage technology. Food Security 4(2): 279-293. 40. Finger, R. (2012). Modeling the sensitivity of agricultural water use to price variability and climate change - an application to Swiss maize production. Agricultural Water Management 109: 135–143. 41. El Benni, N., Finger, R., Mann, S. (2012). Effects of agricultural policy reforms and farm characteristics on income risks in Swiss agriculture. Agricultural Finance Review 72(3): 301-324.

42. El Benni, N., Finger, R., Mann, S., Lehmann, B. (2012): The distributional effects of agricultural policy reforms in Switzerland. Agricultural Economics - Czech 58: 510-519 43. Finger, R., Lehmann, N. (2012). Modeling the sensitivity of outdoor recreation activities to climate change. Climate Research 51: 229-236. 44. Finger, R. (2012). Nitrogen Use and the Effects of Nitrogen Taxation Under Consideration of Production and Price Risks. Agricultural Systems 107: 13-20. 45. Finger, R. (2012). Biases in Farm-level Yield Risk Analysis due to Data Aggregation. German Journal of Agricultural Economics 61(1): 30-43 46. Finger, R., Lehmann, N. (2012). The Influence of Direct Payments on Farmers' Hail Insurance Decisions. Agricultural Economics. 43(3): 343-354 47. Briner, S., Hartmann, M., Finger, R., Lehmann, B. (2012). Greenhouse gas mitigation and offset options for suckler cow farms: an economic comparison for the Swiss case. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 17(4): 337-355 48. Finger, R., Lehmann, B. (2012). Adoption of Agri-environmental Programmes in Swiss Crop Production. EuroChoices 11(1): 28-33 49. Finger, R., El Benni, N. (2011). Spatial Analysis of Income Inequality in Agriculture. Economics Bulletin 31(3): 2138-2150. 50. Finger, R., Calanca, P. (2011). Risk Management Strategies to Cope with Climate Change in Grassland Production: An Illustrative Case Study for the Swiss Plateau. Regional Environmental Change 11(4): 935-949. 51. Finger, R., El Benni, N., Kaphengst, T., Evans, C., Herbert, S., Lehmann, B., Morse, S., Stupak, N. (2011). A Meta-Analysis on Farm-Level Costs and Benefits of GM Crops. Sustainability 3: 743-762. 52. Finger, R., Hediger, W., Schmid, S. (2011). Irrigation as Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change: A Biophysical and Economic Appraisal for Swiss Maize Production. Climatic Change 105(3-4): 509-528. 53. Finger, R., Lazzarotto, P., and Calanca, P. (2010). Bio-economic assessment of climate change impacts on managed grassland production. Agricultural Systems 103(9): 666-674. 54. Finger, R. (2010). Stock price responses on the German suspension of genetically modified maize. Economics Bulletin 30(3): 2220-2229 55. Finger, R. (2010). Revisiting the Evaluation of Robust Regression Techniques for Crop Yield Data Detrending. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 92(1): 205-211 56. Finger, R. (2010). Evidence of slowing yield growth - the example of Swiss cereal yields. Food Policy 35(2): 175-182 57. Finger, R., Hartmann, M., and Feitknecht, M. (2009). Adoption Patterns of Herbicide Tolerant Soybeans in Argentina. AgBioForum 12(3&4): 404-411 58. Finger, R. and Schmid, S. (2008). Modeling Agricultural Production Risk and the Adaptation to Climate Change. Agricultural Finance Review 68 (1), 25-41 59. Finger, R. and Hediger, W. (2008). The Application of Robust Regression to a Production Function Comparison. The Open Agriculture Journal 2, 90-98. 60. Finger, R. and Gerwig, C.N. (2008). The Impact of Climate Change on the Profitability of Site Specific Technologies. Schriften der Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus e.V. (GEWISOLA) 43, 395-404.

61. Lips, M., Finger, R. and Calanca, P. (2008). Potenzielle Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf Risiko und Kosten der Weizenernte. Yearbook of Socioeconomics in Agriculture 2008, 219-232.

Journal articles with review by the editorial board 1. Finger, R. (2011). Food security: close crop yield gap. Nature 480: 39. 2. Finger, R. (2010). Review of ‘robustbase’ software for R. Journal of Applied Econometrics 25(7): 1205-1210. 3. Finger, R. and Stephan, A. (2010). Nichtparametrische 2-Stichproben Dispersionstests. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 39(5): 254-256. 4. Finger, R. and Stephan, A. (2008). Ausreißerrobuste Methoden in der linearen Regressionsanalyse. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium (WiSt) 37 (10), 557-559. 5. Finger, R. (2008). Impacts of Agricultural Policy Reforms on Crop Yields. EuroChoices 7(3): 24-25.

Peer reviewed book chapters 1. Kostrova, A., Finger, R., Djanibekov, U. (2015). Farm-Level Model of Short-Rotation Coppice Cultivation with Flexibility in Planting and Harvesting. In: Collan, M. and Luukka, P. (Eds.), 2015, Proceedings of the ROW15 – Real Option Workshop, August 18.-19., 2015, Lappeenranta Finland, LUT Scientific and Research Publications, Research Reports, 44, CreateSpace Inc., USA, pp. 24-28. 2. Finger, R., El Benni, N. (2014). Alternative Specifications of Reference Income Levels in the Income Stabilization Tool. In: Zopounidis, C., Kalogeras, N., Mattas, K., Dijk, G., Baourakis, G. (Eds.), Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy. Springer, pp. 65-85 3. Finger, R., El Benni, N. (2014). Alternative Specifications of Reference Income Levels in the Income Stabilization Tool. In: Zopounidis, C., Kalogeras, N., Mattas, K., Dijk, G., Baourakis, G. (Eds.), Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy. Springer, pp. 65-85. 4. Lehmann, N., Finger, R., Klein, T. (2012). Modeling Complex Crop Management-Plant Interactions in Potato Production under Climate Change. In: Klatte, D., Lüthi, H.-J., Schmedders, K. (Eds.), Operations Research 2011 Proceedings, Springer, pp. 349-354 5. Finger, R., Weber, M. (2012). Gentechnisch veränderte Pflanzen in der Schweiz – Eine Agrarökonomische Analyse. In: Dobbelaere et al. (eds), Nutzen und Risiken der Freisetzung gentechnisch veränderter Pflanzen, Zurich: Vdf Verlag, pp. 124-137. 6. Lehmann, N., Finger, R., Klein, T. (2011). Optimizing Wheat Management towards Climate Change: A Genetic Algorithms Approach. In: Angeli, C. (Ed.). Applied Simulation and Modelling 2011. ACTA Press, DOI: 10.2316/P.2011.715-020. 7. Lehmann, N., Finger, R.,Klein, T. (2012). Adapting towards climate change: A whole-farm approach. In: R. Seppelt, A.A. Voinov, S. Lange, D. Bankamp (Eds.) (2012): Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Pathways and Visions under Uncertainty, Leipzig, Germany, pp. 676-683 8. Briner, S., Finger, R., Elkin, C., Zurbriggen, N., Bebi, P. (2012). The impact of production and price risk on ecosystem goods and services provision from agriculture and forestry in mountainous regions. In: R. Seppelt, A.A. Voinov, S. Lange, D. Bankamp (Eds.) (2012): Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Pathways and Visions under Uncertainty, Leipzig, Germany, pp. 2283-2291

Other Publications (Book Reviews and Reports) 1. Winzer, F., Witzel, C.P., Kraska, T., Finger, R., Pude, R. (2015). Cascade Utilization of Miscanthus to increase resource efficiency. Bio Economy Science Centre, North-Rhine Westphalia. 2. Finger, R. (2013). Book review: Ariel Dinar and Robert Mendelsohn (Eds) (2011) Handbook On Climate Change and Agriculture. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. German Journal of Agricultural Economics 62(2): 151-152 3. Finger, R., Briner, S., Peerlings, J. (2013). Ex-Post Evaluation der Zulagen für verkäste Milch. Report to the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture 4. Kaphengst, T., El Benni, N., Evans, C., Finger, R., Morse, S., Stupak, N. (2011): Assessment of the economic performance of GM crops worldwide, Report to the European Commission 5. Fischler, M., Berlin, R., Bokusheva, R., Finger, R., Marin, Y., Pais, F., Pavon, K., Perez, F. (2011). 5 Year ExPost Impact Study POSTCOSECHA Programme Central America. Report for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation