Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

Date of birth
February 03d, 1979

Place of birth
Chmelnytskyi, Ukraine

Education

  • 2010
    Ph.D. Agricultural Economics and Applied Statistics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany (Supervisor: Prof. S. von Cramon-Taubadel). PhD program in Applied Statistics and Empirical Methods (Center for Statistics)

  • 2004
    M.A. Economics, National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”/Kyiv School of Economics (EERC), Ukraine. (Supervisor: Dr. V. Zelenyuk)

  • 2001
    Diploma Physics, with High Distinction, Kamyanets-Podilskyi State Pedagogical University, Ukraine (Supervisor: Dr. S. Kryskov).



Employment
Since

  • Oct. 2007
    Research Associate
    Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Department for AgriculturalEconomics and Rural Development, Chair Agricultural Policy of Prof. S. von Cramon-Taubadel

  • 2004/07
    Research Associate
    Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, Agricultural Policy Department, Kyiv, Ukraine

  • 2006/07
    Senior lecturer
    Kyiv National Economic University, Department of Agricultural Economics, Kyiv, Ukraine.

  • 2001/02
    Teacher
    High School No 190, Kyiv, Ukraine.



Research Interests

  • Agriculture and Food Policy Analysis
  • Productivity and Efficiency Analysis
  • Comparative advantages/Competitiveness Analysis
  • Spatial Economics and Econometrics



Publications

  • ‘Measuring and Comparing the Competitiveness of Heterogeneous Production Systems in Agriculture: a Note’. Outlook on Agriculture. Vol 38(1), pp.31-39, 2009 (with S. von Cramon Taubadel)
  • ‘Belarus: Boosting agricultural productivity and competitiveness. Options and Impact of State Support’ World Bank Policy Note. Report No 48335-BY, 2009. (with S. von Cramon Taubadel, M. Gruenninger, and D. Prokhodko)
  • ‘Ukraine: Agricultural Competitiveness’. World Bank Policy Note. Report No 44843-UA, 2008. (with S. von Cramon Taubadel and M. Gruenninger)
  • ’20 Years of Transition in Agricultural Economic Journals’. Contributed paper at IAMO-Forum 2009, 17–19 June 2009, Halle (Saale) (with S. von Cramon – Taubadel; forthcoming in the European Review of Agricultural Economics)



Working and policy papers



Books and Chapters in Books

  • ‘Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Ukraine’. in Anderson, K. and J. Swinnen (eds.) (2008), Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe’s Transition Economics, Washington DC: World Bank. (with S. von Cramon-Taubadel, E. von der Malsburg, V. Movchan)
  • ‘Quantitative Analysis and Modeling of Agricultural Markets’. Kyiv: KNEU, 2008. (with S. Demyanenko, in Ukrainian)
    ‘Barriers to Investment in the Agriculture and Food Sector in Ukraine’. In Strubenhoff H., Burakovskyy I., Movchan V. (eds) (2009) Agriculture, Bioenergy and Food Policy in Ukraine – Analyses, Conclusions and Recommendations. ADEF-Ukraine. Kyiv (with H. Strubenhoff)
  • ‘WTO and agriculture’. In Strubenhoff H., Burakovskyy I., Movchan V. (eds) (2009) Agriculture, Bioenergy and Food Policy in Ukraine – Analyses, Conclusions and Recommendations. ADEF-Ukraine. Kyiv
  • ‘Restructuring of the Sugar Sector in Ukraine’. In Strubenhoff H., Burakovskyy I., Movchan V. (eds) (2009) Agriculture, Bioenergy and Food Policy in Ukraine – Analyses, Conclusions and Recommendations. ADEF-Ukraine. Kyiv (with H. Strubenhoff)
  • ‘Fiscal Support to Agriculture in Ukraine’. In Strubenhoff H., Burakovskyy I., Movchan V. (eds) (2009) Agriculture, Bioenergy and Food Policy in Ukraine – Analyses, Conclusions and Recommendations. ADEF-Ukraine. Kyiv.
  • ‘Coupled subsidies, efficiency and technology: the case of Ukrainian dairy farms’. In Strubenhoff H., Burakovskyy I., Movchan V. (eds) (2009) Agriculture, Bioenergy and Food Policy in Ukraine – Analyses, Conclusions and Recommendations. ADEF-Ukraine. Kyiv (with S. von Cramon Taubadel)
  • ‘Rural Non-Farm Employment in Ukraine’, in: Curtiss, J., et. al. (eds.) (2006): Agriculture in the Face of Changing Markets, Institutions and Policies. Challenges and Strategies, IAMO, Vol. 33, pp. 484-497. (with S. von Cramon – Taubadel)
  • ‘An Ex-Ante Analysis of a Minimum Price System for Ukraine’ in: Brosig, S., Hockmann, H. (eds.) (2005): How Effective is the Invisible Hand? Agricultural and Food Markets in Central and Eastern Europe, IAMO, Vol. 31, pp. 333-349 (with A. Kuhn)
  • ‘Evaluating the Ukrainian Oilseed Export tax’, in: von Cramon-Taubadel, S., Demyanenko, S., Kuhn, A. (eds.) (2004): Ukrainian Agriculture – Crisis and Recovery, Germany: Shaker Verlag, pp. 153-165 (with A. Kuhn)
  • ‘The 2003 Wheat Crisis and Food Security’, in: von Cramon-Taubadel, S., Demyanenko, S., Kuhn, A. (eds.) (2004): Ukrainian Agriculture – Crisis and Recovery, Germany: Shaker Verlag, pp. 167-180. (V. Galushko, and A. Kuhn)



Papers presented at selected conferences

  • ‘Price Support, Efficiency and Technology Change of Ukrainian Dairy Farms: Spatial Dependence in the Components of Productivity Growth’. Contributed paper at: Vth North American Productivity Workshop 25–27 June 2008, New-York, USA; 27th IAAE Conference, 16-22 August 2009, Beijing, China. (with S. von Cramon Taubadel and B. Brümmer)
  • ‘The Determinants of the Dairy Farming Competitiveness in Ukraine’. Presented at the XIIth Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economics in Belgium 26-29 August 2008, Ghent – Belgium (with S. von Cramon Taubadel)
  • ’20 Years of Transition in Agricultural Economic Journals’. Contributed paper at IAMO-Forum 2009, June 2009, Halle (Saale) , Germany (with S. von Cramon – Taubadel)
  • ‘A Note on Measuring and Comparing the Competitiveness of Heterogeneous Production Systems in Agriculture’. Contributed paper at IAMO-Forum 2008, June 2008, Halle (Saale), Germany (with S. von Cramon – Taubadel)
  • ‘Coupled subsidies, efficiency and technology: the case of Ukrainian dairy farms’. Contributed paper at MACE Conference, January 2007, Berlin, Germany
  • ‘Rural Non-Farm Employment in Ukraine’, Contributed paper at IAMO-Forum 2006, June 2006, Halle (Saale) , Germany (with S. von Cramon – Taubadel)
  • ‘An Ex-Ante Analysis of a Minimum Price System for Ukraine’ Contributed paper at IAMO-Forum 2005, June 2005, Halle (Saale) , Germany (with A. Kuhn)
  • ‘Efficiency Change in Ukraine’s Sunflower Seeds Industry: 1998-2002’. Contributed paper at the Forum 2004 at the Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), November 2004, Haale (Saale), Germany (with V. Zelenyuk)



Articles in Press and Newsletters



Teaching Experience

  • Introduction to Productivity and Efficiency Analysis, Lecturer, Summer School in Dnipropetrovskyi Agricultural University (May 2009), Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
  • Competitiveness, Efficiency and Productivity of Ukrainian Agriculture, Lecturer, Summer School in Dnipropetrovskyi Agricultural University (May 2009), Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
  • Nonparametric Analysis of Productivity and Efficiency in Agriculture (Master students), Senior lecturer (2006/07), Kyiv National Economic University, Ukraine
  • Quantitative analysis of agricultural markets (Bachelor students), Senior lecturer (2006/07), Kyiv National Economic University, Ukraine
  • Fundamentals of Agricultural Development (Bachelor students), Instructor (2006/07), Kyiv National Economic University, Ukraine
  • Physics and Computer Science, Teacher, High School No 190, Kyiv, Ukraine (2001/02)



Research Projects Experience
2008/09

  • Investment in Developing Countries’ Food and Agriculture: Assessing Agricultural Capital Stocks and their Impact on Productivity. (productivity analysis; project leaders: Prof. S. von Cramon-Taubadel), FAO Project
  • Belarus: Boosting agricultural productivity and competitiveness Options and Impact of State Support. (consultant; productivity and competitiveness analysis; project leaders: Prof. S. von Cramon-Taubadel and M. Grueninger, Sr. Agriculture Economist and CSC, ECSSD), the World Bank Project
  • Tanzania: Accelerated Food Security project. (consultant, economic and financial analysis; project leaders: S. Zorya and M. Guatam, Sustainable Development Dept., Africa Region), the World Bank Project
  • Farms’ Structure Report Ukraine (upon the request of a big European machine building holding)
  • Competitve agriculture or state’s control: Ukraine’s response to the global food crisis (competitiveness analysis; project leaders: Prof. S. von Cramon-Taubadel and M. Grueninger, Sr. Agriculture Economist and CSC, ECSSD), the World Bank Project


2006/07

  • Sugar Producer Competitor Financial Analysis for Ukraine (with Dr. Heinz Strubenhoff, upon the request of a big European sugar holding)
  • German-Ukrainian Policy Dialog in Agriculture project at the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER), Kyiv, Ukraine (research associate, project leader: Dr. Heinz Strubenhoff); http://www.ier.kiev.ua/English/agro_eng.cgi
  • Ukraine: Agricultural competitiveness (competitiveness analysis; project leaders: Prof. S. von Cramon-Taubadel and M. Grueninger, Sr. Agriculture Economist and CSC, ECSSD), in the context of the preparation of the World Bank Project Agricultural Competitiveness and Food Safety: Laboratory Modernization Project (ACFSP). The World Bank project
  • State aid to Agriculture in Ukraine and EU (principal author). The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine project
  • Poverty Reduction through Reducing Distortions to Agricultural Incentives: Ukraine Case Study. (distortions analysis; project leader: Prof. S. von Cramon-Taubadel). In the context of the World Bank Distortions in Agriculture Project (www.worldbank.org/agdistortions). The World Bank project


2004/05

  • Study on Public Expenditures in Agriculture of Ukraine. Prepared for the Public Finance Review of Ukraine 2005-2006. EBRD and World Bank project.
  • Analysis of Economic Impacts of Ukraine’s Accession to the WTO (sector studies on agriculture and hunting, fishery, forestry, and food processing). The project was performed by the Institute of Economic Research and Policy Consulting (Ukraine) in consortium with international partner institutions. Funded by the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and the World Bank.
  • Ukraine Agriculture and Rural Development Policy. Stimulating Rural Development in Ukraine and Decentralized Governance and Agriculture in Ukraine study chapters (local Consultant). USAID project



Certified training

  • Computable General Equilibrium Modeling with MPSGE/GAMS (2005, World Bank, Moscow, Russia; Instructors: David Tarr, Thomas F. Rutherford, Jesper Jensen)
  • Computable General Equilibrium Modeling with MPSGE/GAMS (2006, Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, Kyiv, Ukraine; Instructors: Jesper Jensen, Ferndinand Pavel, Veronica Movchan)
  • Efficiency and Growth in the Agriculture on Transition Economies, European Summer school (2006, Prague, Czech Republic; Instructors: Bernhard Brümmer, Robert D. Weaver, Heinz Hockman, Alex Lissitsa, Jarmila Curtiss)



Additional Information

Languages

  • English - fluent
  • Ukrainian – native
  • Russian – fluent
  • German - fair


Computer

  • Windows, Microsoft Office
  • Statistical software: R, MATLAB, STATA


Interests

  • Languages
  • Sport, Guitar



References

  • 1. Prof. Dr. Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel.
    Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development
    Georg-August-Universitaet Göttingen
    Platz der Goettinger Sieben 5,
    37073 Goettingen, Germany
    [scramon(at)gwdg.de]

  • 2. Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brümmer.
    Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development
    Georg-August-Universitaet Göttingen
    Platz der Goettinger Sieben 5,
    37073 Goettingen, Germany
    [bbruemm(at)gwdg.de]

  • 3. Prof. Dr. Walter Zucchini.
    Institute for Statistics and Econometrics
    Georg-August-Universitaet Göttingen
    Platz der Goettinger Sieben 5,
    37073 Goettingen, Germany
    [walter.zucchini(at)wi-wiss.uni-goettingen.de]