ÖGA Conference 2018

The ÖGA Conference 2018 took place from September 27 to 28 in Vienna at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences on the topic of _“Methods for an Evidence-Based Agricultural Policy. Experiences, Needs, and Developments”.

The plenary lectures at the ÖGA Annual Conference:

• Franz Sinabell (Austrian Institute of Economic Research)
  ”The new CAP – a new era of evidence based policy making?”
• Sophie Thoyer (IRSTEA – French National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture)    
  ”Enriching the CAP evaluation toolbox with experimental approaches”
• Florence Buchholzer (DG AGRI, European Commission)
  ”Impact assessment supporting the legislative proposals for the Common Agricultural Policy post 2020”

Moderated by Klaus Salhofer (BOKU University, Vienna)

Detailed programme of the ÖGA Annual Conference  together with the program of the pre-conference and the REECAP workshop.

Conference Proceedings with the short papers, abstracts, and outlines of the ÖGA conference, the pre-conference, and the REECAP workshop.

Program of the excursion (German, English)

Events on September 26, 2018

On September 26, 2018, the day before the ÖGA conference, two ÖGA-related events took place:

• The pre-conference on “Evaluation of Equality in Rural Development Programmes” took place. For details, see »here.
• The workshop of the “Research Network on Economic Experiments for the CAP” (REECAP). For details, see www.reecap.org.

Participants were also invited to participate in the events on September 26.

Pre-conference plenary presentations::

• Angela Wroblewski (Institute for Advanced Studies, AT)
  ”Making Equality Measurable – Approaches, Requirements, and Challenges in the Evaluation of Equality Measures”
• Elke-Anette Schmidt (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Women’s Council, Rostock, DE)
  “Equality in the EAFRD between Aspiration and Reality – A Practical Report from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania”

Moderated by Mathilde Schmitt (agrigenda, AT)

REECAP workshop plenary presentations:

Morning:

• Kent Messer (CBEAR – Center for Behavioral & Experimental Agri-Environmental Research and University of Dalaware, USA)
  ”Applying Behavioral and Experimental Economics to U.S. Agri-Environmental Programs: Benefits, Challenges, & Lessons Learned”

Moderated by Raphaële Preget (INRA – French National Institute for Agricultural research)

Afternoon:

• Malika Kacimi ( INJEP – Fond d’Expérimentation pour la Jeunesse, Institut National de la Jeunesse et de l’Education Populaire, FR)
  „Experiments on youth policies in France: the need to combine several methods of evaluation and the case of randomization„
• Axel Sonntag (Insight Austria and Vienna Center for Experimental Economics)
  „On the importance of randomized controlled trials – field experimental evidence from higher education in Austria„

Moderated by Elisabeth Gsottbauer (University of Innsbruck, AT)