Current position:

  • Ph.D. candidate at the chair of farm management

  • Research interests:
    Digital Finance, Gender, Microfinance, Savings, Rural development in Sub-Sahara Africa

    Education:
  • 10/2017-03/2020 MSc. Sustainable International Agriculture (International Agribusiness and Rural Development), Joint Double Degree Georg-August-Universität Göttingen & Universidad de Talca
  • → Masterthesis: Does individual risk attitude and the level of trust make a difference? The choice of Cambodian villagers between microfinance institutes and informal moneylenders

  • 10/2014-07/2017 BSc. Agrarwissenschaften (Agribusiness), Georg-August Universität Göttingen

  • Teaching Experience:
  • Quantitative methods in agricultural business economics (M.Sc. Sustainable International Agriculture, WiSe 2020/21)
  • Themenzentriertes Seminar (M.Sc. Agrarwissenschaften, SoSe 2022)
  • Tutor & Guest Lecturer in Microfinance for the Rural Poor – A Business Class (WiSe 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22)

  • Publications:
  • Possner, A., Bruns S., Mußhoff O. (2021) A Cambodian smallholder farmer's choice between microfinance institutes and informal commercial moneylenders: the role of risk attitude. Agricultural Finance Review, Online: link

  • Conference contributions:
  • Possner, A., Rosero, G., & Musshoff, O. (2022). Saving on the Phone-Evidence from Ghanaian Cocoa Farmers. AgEconMeet 2022. Early Career Development Seminar for Agricultural Economists in Europe, October 5 – 7, 2022, Göttingen, Germany (presentation)
  • Possner, A., Rosero, G., & Musshoff, O. (2022). Saving on the Phone-Evidence from Ghanaian Cocoa Farmers. 2021 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting. July 31 – August 2, 2022, Los Angeles, USA (poster presentation)
  • Possner, A., Mußhoff, O. & Sarfo, Y. (2022). Paths to improve credit access for women in Madagascar. Preferences for Digital and Conventional Credit. 66th annual conference of the Australasian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society (AARES), February 7-11, 2022, Sydney, Australia (online presentation)
  • Possner, A., Mußhoff, O., Sarfo, Y., & Danne, M. (2021). Paths to improve credit access for women in Madagascar. Preferences for Digital and Conventional Credit. 2021 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) & Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA) Joint Annual Meeting. August 1-3, 2021, Austin, Texas (online poster presentation)
  • Possner, A., Rosero, G., & Musshoff, O. (2022). Saving on the Phone-Evidence from Ghanaian Cocoa Farmers. 96th Annual Conference of The Agricultural Economics Society (AES). April 4 – 6, 2022, KU Leuven, Belgium (presentation)



Languages:
German – native
English – fluent, C1
Spanish – fluent, B2.2
Italian – basic knowledge