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Date and place of birth
09.01.1984 in Melk, Austria

Education

  • 08/2015-present
    Research Assistant at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen, Germany

  • 04/2012-07/2015
    Ph.D. at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen, Germany
    Affiliated with the Collaborative Research Centre 990: "Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems" (Sumatra, Indonesia)
    Doctoral dissertation: "Analysing smallholders' behaviour on Sumatra: An ex ante policy analysis and investigation of experiments" external validity under consideration of risk?

  • 02/2011-03/2012
    Research Assistant at the Institute for Economic Policy and Industrial Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

  • 02/2006-01/2011
    Graduate degree in Economics (Magister), Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
    Thesis: "Performance of farms in Austria: An empirical Research about the different Developments of organic and conventional farms"

  • 08/2009-01/2010
    University Utrecht, Netherlands
    Student exchange semester<\punkt>

  • 10/2005-01/2006
    Course in Technical Mathimatics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria<\punkt>

  • 09/1998-05/2003:
    HLBLA Franciso Josephinum, Wieselburg, Austria
    University entrance diploma<\punkt>

    Working experience
  • 08/2015-present: Research Assistant at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen, Germany

  • 04/2012-07/2015: Ph.D. at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development,
    University of Göttingen, Germany
    Field work in Jambi Province, Indonesia

  • 02/2011-03/2012: Research Assistant at the Institute for Economic Policy and Industrial Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

  • 08/2009: Voluntary internships at the Federation of Austrian Industries (IV), Vienna, Austria

  • 08/08-09/08: Voluntary internships at Austrian Federal Competition Authority (BWB), Vienna, Austria

  • Field of research
  • Ex-ante policy analysis
  • Palm oil and rubber production in Indonesia,
  • Behavioural economics
  • Risk in agriculture

  • Published papers
    Moser, S. and Mußhoff, O. (2015): "Ex ante evaluation of policy measures: Effects of reward and punishment for fertiliser reduction in palm oil production", Journal of Agricultural Economics (DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12114)

    Discussion papers
    Moser, S. and Mußhoff, O. (2015). "Comparing the use of risk-influencing production inputs and experimentally measured risk attitude: Do decisions of Indonesian small-scale rubber farmers match?", EFForTS Discussion Paper Series No. 14, (Göttingen: University Göttingen).

    Schwarze, S., Euler, M., Gatto, M., Hein, J., Hettig, E., Holtkamp, A.M., Izhar, L., Kunz, Y., Lay, J., Merten, J., Moser, S., Mußhoff, O., Otten, F., Qaim, M., Soetarto, E., Steinebach, S., Trapp, K., Vorlaufer, M. and Faust, H. (2015). "Rubber vs. oil palm: an analysis of factors influencing smallholders? crop choice in Jambi, Indonesia", EFForTS Discussion Paper Series No. 11, (Göttingen: University Göttingen).

    Moser, S. and Mußhoff, O. (2014). "A framed field experiment about policy measures - Testing the effectiveness of rewards or punishments with different probabilities as incentives in palm oil production", EFForTS Discussion Paper Series No. 5, (Göttingen: University Göttingen).

    Conference papers
    Moser, S. and Mußhoff, O. (2015). "Ex ante evaluation of policy measures: Effects of reward and punishment for fertiliser reduction in palm oil production", 29th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), August 8-14 2015, Milano, Italy.

    Moser, S. and Mußhoff, O. (2014). "Ex ante evaluation of policy measures: Testing effects of reward or punishment with different probabilities in a framed field experiment about fertiliser reduction in palm oil production", 54th GEWISOLA-Annual Conference, September 17-19 2014, Göttingen, Germany.

    Moser, S. (2013). "New Evidence about Risk in Agriculture: Analysing Output Level and Output Risk in Organic and Conventional Arable Farming in Austria", 2nd International Agricultural Risk, Finance and Insurance Conference (IARFIC), June 16-18 2013, Vancouver, Canada.