Dr. Rico Ihle is an associate professor at the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group of Wageningen University. He holds a PhD from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany).
His teaching focuses on agricultural economics and policy analysis for agricultural and food market as well as quantitative research methods and research skills for market and policy analysis. Among others, he has taught at Göttingen University, Hohenheim University (Germany), the University for Development Studies (Ghana) and Talca University (Chile). At WUR he is teaching the BSc courses Econometrics (AEP21306), Agriculture, Food and Policy (AEP21806) as well as the MSc course Economics and Politics of European Integration (AEP30306) and the PhD course Intro to R programming for Social Sciences at WASS. He has organized BEB study tours to Slovakia, Morocco, Hungary and Munich (YSS21303). He is the coordinator of the staff and PhD EconMonday seminar of the Section Economics. Currently, he is supervising the theses of 4 PhD students and of several BSc and MSc students.
His research interests include the analysis of agricultural markets and food prices, economic aspects of violent political conflict and the effects of public policies on food markets. He is especially interested in EU agricultural markets, food markets of the Middle East and Northern Africa, the EU dairy market, food price monitoring and works occasionally on other food-related topics in Sub-Saharan Africa and other regions. He has a broad expertise in quantitative methods with a specialization on time series econometrics. He published in the major agricultural economics journals such as the European Review of Agricultural Economics, Food Policy or Agricultural Economics and has co-authored more than 60 conference contributions. Most of his working papers and conference contributions can be found here.