Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) is the 3rd oldest university in Greece. Since 1920, AUA contributes consistently and continuously to Greek and European primary sector development, by conducting basic and applied research in agricultural related sciences. The University is situated on a green campus that straddles close to the Acropolis, at the heart of the ancient Olive Grove. AUA contributions address a wide range of issues related to food safety and environmental protection significantly affecting the daily lives of Greek and Europeans citizens: food quality and safety, water resource conservation, organic farming, alternative energy sources, biotechnological applications in agriculture, information and communications technology. Within the project, AUA researchers will contribute in trainings on experimental economics with a special emphasis on bargaining experiments, public good games, risk and time preference elicitation as well as auctions. AUA operates the only experimental economics laboratory in Greece and has trained various agricultural economists in experimental methods with emphasis in the food and agricultural sector.
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Team
Andreas Drichoutis (male) is an Agricultural Economist. Prior to joining the Department of Agricultural Economics at Agricultural University of Athens, he was a faculty member at the Department of Economics at University of Ioannina for 4 years. Based on IDEAS RePEc’s ranking list, he is currently ranked at the Top 10% of economists globally and at the Top 4% of economists in Greece (this ranking takes into account only publications in the last 10 years, for authors registered with the RePEc Author Service). Dr. Drichoutis is or had been working for several EU and national projects. He has also worked as a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as well as for a project funded by United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment. His research interests are focused on, but not limited to, the economics of nutrition/obesity, contingent valuation and experimental auctions methods to elicit consumers’ valuations, choice under risk, inter-temporal decision making and applied demand analysis. Most of his research applies experimental economics methods to answer questions relevant for agricultural economists and decision scientists. Dr. Drichoutis has published 50 peer reviewed papers in several scientific journals including the Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of the Economic Science Association, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics etc. His work has been cited at least 2,000 times in journals such as Science, Nature Human Behavior, Games and Economic Behavior, Experimental Economics, Economics Letters, Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty etc. Dr. Drichoutis is a regular reviewer for many field journals like European Review of Agricultural Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Food Policy etc. as well as for experimental economics like Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology etc.
Stathis Klonaris (male) is a Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at Agricultural University of Athens. His research interests are focused on the economics of food policy and quality, modelling agricultural markets and on Common Agricultural Policy issues. Dr. Klonaris received his PhD from Reading University. Prior to joining the Agricultural University of Athens he worked for the Ministry of Rural Development & Food as a member of the Greek delegation responsible for the fiscal policy and as consultant in the private sector. He has published in several journals including Journal of Agricultural Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Economics, Forest Policy and Economics. Dr. Klonaris has also been an expert evaluator and/or consultant of panels organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Evridiki Spyropoulou is part of the Technical Research stuff at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at AUA. She has a Bachelor degree in Social Anthropology and Social Policy, an MSc in Integrated Development and Management of Rural Areas and she is currently a PhD student. She has extensive administrative experience (>10 years) in managing a graduate program, the Dean’s office as well as the Museum at AUA.