Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung

Current position:

  • Doctoral student at the Chair of Farm Management, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Prof. Dr. O. Mußhoff)

    • Research interests:

    • Spatial and temporal developments on the German farmland market

      • Applied spatial econometrics, applied time series analysis

        • Experimental approaches to investigate farmland purchase decisions

          • Education:

          • 10/2015 – 03/2019: Master of Science in Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Master Thesis: The Relationship of Market Structure and Innovation in the Global Seed Market)

            • 10/2011 – 09/2015: Bachelor of Science in Economics, Freie Universität Berlin (Bachelor Thesis: Untersuchung des Einflusses der westlichen Großkonzerne auf die kleinbäuerliche Kakaowirtschaft in den Ländern Ghana und Elfenbeinküste unter Berücksichtigung der Marxschen Kapitalismuskritik)

              • Professional Experience:

              • 08/2022 – 12/2022: Visiting fellow at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

                • 04/2017 – 03/2019: Student Assistant, Forum Moderne Landwirtschaft e.V.

                  • 04/2015 – 08/2015: Student Assistant, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

                    • Publications:

                    • Meißner, L., Kappenberg, L., & Mußhoff, O. (2022). An Analytical Framework for Evaluating Farmland Market Regulation: Examining the German Land Transaction Law. Land. link

                      • Meißner, L., & Mußhoff, O. (2022). Revisiting the Relationship Between Farmland Prices and Soil Quality. Q Open. link

                        • Meißner, L. & Mußhoff, O. (2022). Transaktionen landwirtschaftlicher Nutzfläche in Niedersachsen: Die Bedeutung der nichtlandwirtschaftlichen Käufer im zeitlichen Verlauf. Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, 100(1). link

                          • Sagemüller, F., Meißner, L. & Mußhoff, O. (2021). Where Can the Crow Make Friends? Sci‐Hub's Activities in the Library of Development Studies and its Implications for the Field. Development and Change, 52(3), 670-683. link

                            • Conference Proceedings:

                            • Meißner, L., Danne, M., and Mußhoff, O.: Subjective knowledge, attitude to money and investment decisions: New insights for the farmland market. Paper presented at the joint National Agricultural Credit Conference (NACC) and NC-1177 Meeting, October 17-18 2022, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Detroit Branch Office, USA.

                              • Meißner, L., von Hobe, C. and Mußhoff, O.: A small area approach to estimate and interpolate farmland values on community level. Paper presented at the EAAE PhD Workshop, June 22-24 2022, Universita di Parma, Italy.

                                • Meißner, L. and Mußhoff, O.: Does farmland market regulation generate utility? Discussing arguments and actors within the German land transaction law. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society (AES). April 4 – 6 2022, KU Leuven, Belgium.

                                  • Meißner, L. and Mußhoff, O.: The intrinsic value of soil quality in farmland prices: Is the German soil quality index a stable indicator? Paper presented at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus e.V. (online conference), September 23, 2021.

                                    • Meißner, L., Plogmann, J. and Mußhoff, O.: Are Policy Changes Visible in German Farmland Price Time Series? Paper presented at the International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), August 17-21, 2021 - Online.

                                      • Meißner, L., Plogmann, J. and Mußhoff, O.: Are shocks in German farmland price time series random or reasoned by political events? Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus e.V. (online conference), September 23-25, 2020.

                                        • Meißner, L., Plogmann, J. and Mußhoff, O.: Are outliers in farmland price time series random or reasoned in political and economic events? Poster presented at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) 2020 Virtual Meeting, August 10-11, 2020.

                                          • Teaching:
                                          Participation as tutor in the following modules:

                                          • Rechnungswesen und Controlling (B. Sc. Agrarwissenschaften), Sommersemester 2020, 2021, 2022

                                            • Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Unternehmensplanung für Pferdewissenschaftler (M. Sc. Pferdewissenschaften), Wintersemester 2020/21 , 2021/22

                                              • Investitions- und Finanzmanagement im Agribusiness (M. Sc. Business Administration, AgriCareerNet), Wintersemester 2020/21

                                                • Guest lectures:

                                                • Baise University in Guangxi, China, “Science and Engineering of Facility Agriculture”, November 2020