I am Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
My research and teaching is focused on agricultural economics, agricultural policy and risk management in agriculture.
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Contact: Robert Finger, Sonneggstrasse 33 8092 Zurich, Switzerland. Email: rofinger@ethz.ch
Webpage of my group at ETH Zürich: www.aecp.ethz.ch
Selected publications from 2024
Finger, R., Möhring, N. (2024). The emergence of pesticide-free crop production systems in Europe. Nature Plants. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01650-x
Wuepper, D., Wiebecke, I., Meier, L., Vogelsanger, S., Bramato, S., Fürholz, A., Finger, R. (2024). Agri-environmental policies from 1960 to 2022. Nat ure Food In Press. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-00945-8
Finger, R., Schneider, K., Candel, J., Möhring, N. (2024). Europe needs better pesticide policies to reduce impacts on biodiversity. Food Policy 152: 102632 >>.
Stetter, C., Huber, R., Finger, R. (2024). Agricultural land use modeling and climate change adaptation - A reinforcement learning approach. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. In Press
Garcia, V., McCallum, C., Finger, R. (2024). Heterogeneity of European farmers’ risk preferences: an Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis. European Review of Agricultural Economics. In Press.
Finger, R. (2024). Europe's ambitious pesticide policy and its impact on agriculture and food systems. Agricultural Economics 55(2): 265-269 >>
Finger, R., Garcia, V., McCallum, C., Rommel, J. (2024). A Note on European Farmers’ Preferences under Cumulative Prospect Theory . Journal of Agricultural Economics. 75(1): 465-472 >>
Kreft, C., Huber, R., Schäfer, D., Finger, R. (2024). Quantifying the impact of farmers’ social networks on the effectiveness of climate change mitigation policies in agriculture. Journal of Agricultural Economics 75(1): 298-322 https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12557
Wimmer, S., Stetter, C., Schmitt, J., Finger, R. (2024). Farm level Responses to Weather Trends: A Structural Model. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 106(3): 1241-1273 >>
Kreft, C., Finger, R., Huber, R., (2024). Action- vs. results-based policy designs for agricultural climate change mitigation. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. In Press https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13376
Garcia, V., Möhring, N., Wang, Y., Finger, R. (2024). Risk perceptions, preferences and the adoption dynamics of pesticide-free production. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 49(1): 102 - 123 >>