Prof. Dr. Christoph Weiss

Head of the Institute for Economic Policy and Industrial Economics

Prof. Dr. Christoph Weiss

Telefon: +43 1 31336 - 4503
Fax:       +43 1 31336 - 725
eMail:      cweiss@wu.ac.at

consultation hour: Wednesday 11 - 12 am

Curriculum vitae

  • Born 1966 in Linz (Austria), married, three children.
  • Studied Economics (1984-1989) at Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria.
  • Degrees: Mag rer soc oec, 1989, Dr rer soc oec, 1992. Topic of Doctoral Dissertation: Price rigidity and market structure.
  • February 1999, Habilitation for the field of Economics at the University of Linz. Topic of the Habilitation: Flexibility and Competition.

Employment

  • Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Linz, Austria, Nov. 1989 - Feb. 1999.
  • Visiting fellow at the Department of Economics, Harvard University, USA, Sept. 1993 - July 1994 and the Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley, USA, June - Aug. 2005.
  • Visiting Professor at the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Economics, University of Giessen, Germany, Summer  term 1997.
  • Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Linz, Austria, Feb. 1999 - Sept. 1999.
  • Full Professor (C4) at the Department of Food Economics and Consumption Studies, University of Kiel, Germany, Oct. 1999 - Nov. 2002.
  • Full Professor (o.Univ.Prof.) at the Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria, since Dec. 2002.

Teaching

Since 1989 seminars and lecturers in industrial organization, economic policy, as well as food and agricultural economics. Seminars and lectures SS 2012

Professional Activities

Publications (selection)

  • Product Quality in the Agri-Food Chain: Do Cooperatives Offer High Quality Wine? European Review of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming 2012 (together with Dieter Pennerstorfer)
  • On the Relative Disadvantage of Cooperatives: Vertical Product Differentiation in a Mixed Oligopoly. Journal of Rural Cooperation, 2011 (together with Dieter Pennerstorfer)
  • The irrelevance of stated plans in predicting farm successions in Finland. Agricultural and Food Science, 2010, 19(1), pp. 81-100 (together with Minna Väre and Kyösti Pietola)
  • Evaluating the Effects of Farm Programs: Results from Propensity Score Matching. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2009, 36(1), pp. 79-101 (together with A. Pufahl)
  • Probality and Timing of Succession or Closure in Family Firms: A Switching Regression Analysis of Farm Households in Germany. Applied Economics, 2009, 41(1), pp. 45-54 (together with T. Glauben, M. Petrick and H. Tietje)
  • Succession and Firm Growth: Results from a Non-parametric Matching Approach. Small Business Economics, 2009, 32(1), pp. 45-56 (together with S. D. Diwisch and P. Voithofer)
  • The Taste for Variety: A Hedonic Analysis. Economics Letters, 2008, 101, pp. 66-68 (together with S. Thiele and L. Drescher)

You will find a complete list of my publications in fides-datenbank.