Alfons Balmann

Names

first:	Alfons
last:	Balmann

Contact

email:
homepage:	http://www.iamo.de
phone:	+49-345-2928-300
postal address:	Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany

Affiliations

• Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Transformationsökonomien (IAMO)
  • website
  • location: Halle, Germany

Research profile

author of:

• Adjustment Costs of Agri-Environmental Policy Switchings: A Multi-Agent Approach
  by Alfons Balmann, Kathrin Happe, Konrad Kellermann, Anne Kleingarn
• Studying Real Options with Genetic Algorithms
  by Alfons Balmann, Oliver Musshoff
• Is the myopic investor right? Numerical evidence for systematic overestimation of investment reluctance for real options
  by Oliver Musshoff & Martin Odening & Alfons Balmann & Norbert Hirschauer
• Real options: Institutional implications for vertical integration of supply chains in competitive environments
  by Oliver Musshoff & Alfons Balmann
• Structural, efficiency and income effects of direct payments: an analysis of different payment schemes for the German region 'Hohenlohe'
  by Kathrin Happe & Alfons Balmann & Konrad Kellermann
• Farm-Based Modelling of Regional Structural Change: A Cellular Automata Approach.
  by Balmann, Alfons
• Path-dependence without increasing returns to scale and network externalities
  by Balmann, Alfons & Odening, Martin & Weikard, Hans-Peter & Brandes, Wilhelm
• Investment decisions in hog finishing: an application of the real options approach
  by Martin Odening & Oliver Mußhoff & Alfons Balmann
• Investment under uncertainty--Does competition matter?
  by Odening, Martin & Mu[ss]hoff, Oliver & Hirschauer, Norbert & Balmann, Alfons
• Does structure matter? The impact of switching the agricultural policy regime on farm structures
  by Happe, Kathrin & Balmann, Alfons & Kellermann, Konrad & Sahrbacher, Christoph
• IS THE "STANDARD REAL OPTIONS APPROACH" APPROPRIATE FOR INVESTMENT DECISIONS IN HOG PRODUCTION?
  by Balmann, Alfons & Musshoff, Oliver
• STRUCTURAL, EFFICIENCY AND INCOME EFFECTS OF DIRECT PAYMENTS - AN AGENT-BASED ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT SCHEMES FOR THE GERMAN REGION OF HOHENLOHE
  by Happe, Kathrin & Balmann, Alfons
• WINNERS AND LOSERS OF POLICY CHANGES – WHAT IS THE ROLE OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE?
  by Sahrbacher, Christoph & Kellermann, Konrad & Balmann, Alfons
• PATH-DEPENDENCE WITHOUT INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE AND NETWORK EXTERNALITIES
  by Balmann, Alfons & Odening, Martin & Weikard, Hans-Peter & Brandes, Wilhelm
• DOING POLICY IN THE LAB! OPTIONS FOR THE FUTURE USE OF MODEL-BASED POLICY ANALYSIS FOR COMPLEX DECISION-MAKING
  by Happe, Kathrin & Balmann, Alfons
• How Smart Should Farms Be Modeled? Behavioral Foundation of Bidding Strategies in Agent-Based Land Market Models
  by Kellermann, Konrad & Balmann, Alfons
• ADJUSTMENT COSTS OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY SWITCHINGS - A MULTI-AGENT APPROACH
  by Balmann, Alfons & Happe, Kathrin & Kellermann, Konrad & Kleingarn, Anne
• Real Options and Competition: The Impact of Depreciation and Reinvestment
  by Balmann, Alfons & Musshoff, Oliver
• LAND MARKETS IN AGENT BASED MODELS OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE
  by Kellermann, Konrad & Sahrbacher, Christoph & Balmann, Alfons
• Beiträge des 3. Doktorandenworkshops zur Agrarentwicklung in Mittel- und Osteuropa 2005
  by Curtiss, Jarmila & Petrick, Martin & Balmann, Alfons
• Coordination and allocation on land markets under increasing scale economies and heterogeneous actors - An experimental study
  by Balmann, Alfons & Kellermann, Konrad & Larsen, Karin & Sandri, Serena & Schade, Christian
• The Effects of Different Political Schemes on the Willingness to Invest, Firm Profitability and Economic Efficiency in the Dairy Sector - An Agent-Based Real Options Approach-
  by Feil, Jan-Henning & Musshoff, Oliver & Balmann, Alfons
• Cooperative vs. Non-Cooperative Spatial Competition for Milk in the Presence of Farm Marketing Cooperatives
  by Graubner, Marten & Koller, Ines & Salhofer, Klaus & Balmann, Alfons
• Beiträge des 2. Doktorandenworkshops zur Agrarentwicklung in Mittel- und Osteuropa 2004
  by Petrick, Martin & Balmann, Alfons
• Does vertical integration reduce investment reluctance in production chains? An agent-based real options approach
  by Balmann, Alfons & Musshoff, Oliver & Larsen, Karin
• Zur Effizienz landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen in Brandenburg – Eine Data Envelopment Analysis
  by Balmann, Alfons & Czasch, Britta
• The agricultural policy simulator (AgriPoliS): an agent-based model to study structural change in agriculture (Version 1.0)
  by Happe, Kathrin & Balmann, Alfons & Kellermann, Konrad
• Struktur-, Effizienz- und Einkommenswirkungen von Direktzahlungen
  by Happe, Kathrin & Balmann, Alfons
• Beiträge des Doktorandenworkshops zur Agrarentwicklung in Mittel- und Osteuropa 2003
  by Petrick, Martin & Balmann, Alfons & Lissitsa, Alexej
• Location and Spatial Pricing in Agricultural Markets
  by Graubner, Marten & Balmann, Alfons & Sexton, Richard J.
• Die Umstrukturierung landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen beim Übergang zur Marktwirtschaft unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Faktors Arbeit
  by Britta Czasch & Alfons Balmann & Martin Odening & Tomasz Sobczak & Michael Switlyk
• Organisation und Effizienz landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen während der Umstrukturierung des Agrarsektors : eine empirische Analyse für Brandenburg
  by Britta Czasch & Alfons Balmann & Martin Odening
• Policy Impact Analysis in the Dairy Sector ˗ An Agent-Based Real Options Approach ˗
  by Feil, Jan-Henning & Musshoff, Oliver & Balmann, Alfons
• Cooperative versus non-cooperative spatial competition for milk
  by Marten Graubner & Ines Koller & Klaus Salhofer & Alfons Balmann
• GAP-Reformvorschläge der EU-Kommission: Was sind die Auswirkungen einer Kappung der Direktzahlungen?
  by Sahrbacher, Christoph & Balmann, Alfons & Ostermeyer, Arlette & Schönau, Franziska
• Perception of dairy farming from different views - results of a stakeholder discussion in the region Altmark, Germany
  by Ostermeyer, Arlette & Balmann, Alfons
• Spatial Pricing and the Location of Processors in Agricultural Markets
  by Graubner, Marten & Balmann, Alfons & Sexton, Richard J.
• Spatial Price Discrimination in Agricultural Product Procurement Markets: A Computational Economics Approach
  by Marten Graubner & Alfons Balmann & Richard J. Sexton
• Drivers of Agricultural Physical Capital Development: Theoretical Framework and Hypotheses
  by Kataria, Karin & Curtiss, Jarmila & Balmann, Alfons
• Spatial Pricing on Land Rental Markets
  by Graubner, Marten & Balmann, Alfons
• The Impact of Volatility in Bioenergy Investments: A Real Options Approach
  by Moller, Lioudmila & Balmann, Alfons & Kataria, Karin
• R. Ford Denison: Darwinian agriculture—how understanding evolution can improve agriculture
  by Alfons Balmann
• Policy impact analysis in competitive agricultural markets: a real options approach
  by Jan-Henning Feil & Oliver Musshoff & Alfons Balmann
• Efficiency and Productivity of Ukrainian Agroholdings
  by Balmann, Alfons & Kataria, Karin & Schaft, Franziska & Kulyk, Iryna
• Capping Direct Payments in the CAP: Another Paper Tiger? Plafonnement des aides directes: simple tigre de papier? Kappung der Direktzahlungen: Noch ein Papiertiger?
  by Christoph Sahrbacher & Amanda Sahrbacher & Alfons Balmann & Arlette Ostermeyer & Franziska Schoenau
• Consequences of a progressive reduction of direct payments in Germany: paving the way for post-2013?
  by Kellermann, Konrad & Sahrbacher, Amanda & Sahrbacher, Christoph & Balmann, Alfons
• 20 years of transition in agriculture: What has been achieved? Where are we heading? Findings of the 2009 IAMO Forum in Halle June 17–19, 2009
  by Schaft, Franziska & Balmann, Alfons
• Agrarspekulation mit Indexfonds: Wie sie funktioniert. Was sie bewirkt.
  by 16 authorsGlauben, Thomas & Prehn, Sören & Pies, Ingo & Will, Matthias Georg & Loy, Jens-Peter & Balmann, Alfons & Brümmer, Bernhard & Heckelei, Thomas & Hockmann, Heinrich & Kirschke, Dieter & Koester, Ulrich & Langhammer, Rolf & Salhofer, Klaus & Schmitz, Peter Michael & Tangermann, Stefan & von Witzke, Harald & Wesseler, Justus
• Mehr als "Museumsprämien"? Zur Förderung der ersten Hektare und Junglandwirte im Rahmen der EU-Agrarpolitik
  by Balmann, Alfons & Sahrbacher, Christoph
• Struktur-, Effizienz- und Einkommenswirkungen direkter Einkommenstransfers an landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben
  by Balmann, A.
• Agricultural policy switchings – an agent-based approach
  by Balmann, A. & Happe, K. & Kellermann, K. & Kleingarn, A.
• Structural Implications of First Hectare Payments and Young Farmer Support within the EU CAP Reform 2013: The German Case
  by Balmann, Alfons & Sahrbacher, Christoph
• Probleme einer Politikoptimierung – Konsequenzen für die Konstruktion von Agrarsektormodellen
  by Odening, M. & Balmann, A.
• The Rise of the Food Risk Society and the Changing Nature of the Technological Treadmill
  by Lioudmila Chatalova & Daniel Müller & Vladislav Valentinov & Alfons Balmann
• Employment and Efficiency of Farms in Transition: an Empirical Analysis for Brandenburg
  by Balmann, Alfons & Czasch, Britta & Odening, Martin
• Index funds' financial speculation with agricultural commodities: Functioning. Effects.
  by 16 authorsGlauben, Thomas & Prehn, Sören & Pies, Ingo & Will, Matthias Georg & Loy, Jens-Peter & Balmann, Alfons & Brümmer, Bernhard & Heckelei, Thomas & Hockmann, Heinrich & Kirschke, Dieter & Koester, Ulrich & Langhammer, Rolf & Salhofer, Klaus & Schmitz, Peter Michael & Tangermann, Stefan & von Witzke, Harald & Wesseler, Justus
• Modellrechnung zur landwirtschaftlichen Betriebsstruktur in den neuen Bundesländern unter besonderer Berücksichtigung administrativer Rahmenbedingungen
  by Odening, M. & Balmann, A. & Peter, G.
• Productivity and profitability developments in Ukraine: agroholdings versus independent enterprises
  by Ostapchuk, Igor & Balmann, Alfons & Curtiss, Jarmila
• FarmAgriPoliS – Ein agentenbasiertes Modell zur Untersuchung des Agrarstrukturwandels mittels Verhaltensexperimenten
  by Appel, Franziska & Balmann, Alfons & Dong, Changxing & Rommel, Jens
• Drivers of Agricultural Physical Capital Development: Theoretical Framework and Hypotheses
  by Kataria, Karin & Curtiss, Jarmila & Balmann, Alfons
• Effects of the Renewable Energy Act on structural change in Agriculture- The case of biogas
  by Appel, Franziska & Ostermeyer-Wiethaup, Arlette & Balmann, Alfons
• The Use of Agent-Based Modelling to Establish a Link between Agricultural Policy Reform and Structural Change
  by Happe, Kathrin & Balmann, Alfons & Kellermann, Konrad & Sahrbacher, Christoph
• Employment and Efficiency of Farms in Transition: an Empirical Analysis for Brandenburg
  by Balmann, Alfons & Czasch, Britta & Odening, Martin
• Effects of the German Renewable Energy Act on structural change in agriculture – The case of biogas
  by Appel, Franziska & Ostermeyer-Wiethaup, Arlette & Balmann, Alfons
• Towards a Theory of Structural Change in Agriculture: Just Economics?
  by Balmann, Alfons & Valentinov, Vladislav
• Über Bauernhöfe und Agrarfabriken: Kann die Landwirtschaft gesellschaftliche Erwartungen erfüllen?
  by Balmann, Alfons
• When Growth Obliges: Social Responsibility of Farms in Light of the Technological Treadmill
  by Balmann, Alfons & Chatalova, Lioudmila & Valentinov, Vladislav & Gagalyuk, Taras
• The emergence and proliferation of agroholdings and mega farms in a global context
  by Hermans, Frans & Chaddad, Fabio & Gagalyuk, Taras & Senesi, Sebastián & Balmann, Alfons
• The rise of the food risk society and the changing nature of the technological treadmill
  by Chatalova, Lioudmila & Müller, Daniel & Valentinov, Vladislav & Balmann, Alfons
• FarmAgriPoliS: An agricultural business management game for behavioral experiments, teaching, and gaming
  by Appel, Franziska & Balmann, Alfons & Dong, Changxing & Rommel, Jens
• FarmAgriPoliS: An agricultural business management game for behavioral experiments, teaching, and gaming
  by Appel, Franziska & Balmann, Alfons & Dong, Changxing & Rommel, Jens
• GAP-Reformvorschläge der EU-Kommission: Was sind die Auswirkungen einer Kappung der Direktzahlungen?
  by Sahrbacher, Christoph & Balmann, Alfons & Ostermeyer, Arlette & Schönau, Franziska
• The potential of Russia to increase its wheat production through cropland expansion and intensification
  by Schierhorn, Florian & Müller, Daniel & Prishchepov, Alexander V. & Faramarzi, Monireh & Balmann, Alfons
• Effects of the German Renewable Energy Act on structural change in agriculture – The case of biogas
  by Appel, Franziska & Ostermeyer-Wiethaup, Arlette & Balmann, Alfons
• Agentenbasierte Politik- und Sektoranalyse - Perspektiven und Herausforderungen
  by Balmann, Alfons & Happe, Kathrin
• THE AGRICULTURAL POLICY SIMULATOR (AGRIPOLIS) AN AGENT-BASED MODEL TO STUDY STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN AGRICULTURE (VERSION 1.0)
  by Happe, Kathrin & Balmann, Alfons & Kellermann, Konrad
• Investment reluctance in supply chains: An agent-based real options approach
  by Balmann, Alfons & Kataria, Karin & Musshoff, Oliver
• On Investment Consumption Modeling with Jump Process Extensions for Productive Sectors
  by Tina Engler & Alfons Balmann
• Mehr als "Museumsprämien"?: Zur Förderung der ersten Hektare und Junglandwirte im Rahmen der EU-Agrarpolitik
  by Balmann, Alfons & Sahrbacher, Christoph
• The emergence and proliferation of agroholdings and mega farms in a global context
  by Hermans, Frans L. P. & Chaddad, Fabio R. & Gagalyuk, Taras & Senesi, Sebastian & Balmann, Alfons
• Index funds' financial speculation with agricultural commodities: Functioning. Effects.
  by 16 authorsGlauben, Thomas & Prehn, Sören & Pies, Ingo & Will, Matthias Georg & Loy, Jens-Peter & Balmann, Alfons & Brümmer, Bernhard & Heckelei, Thomas & Hockmann, Heinrich & Kirschke, Dieter & Koester, Ulrich & Langhammer, Rolf & Salhofer, Klaus & Schmitz, Peter Michael & Tangermann, Stefan & von Witzke, Harald & Wesseler, Justus
• Agrarspekulation mit Indexfonds: Wie sie funktioniert. Was sie bewirkt.
  by 16 authorsGlauben, Thomas & Prehn, Sören & Pies, Ingo & Will, Matthias Georg & Loy, Jens-Peter & Balmann, Alfons & Brümmer, Bernhard & Heckelei, Thomas & Hockmann, Heinrich & Kirschke, Dieter & Koester, Ulrich & Langhammer, Rolf & Salhofer, Klaus & Schmitz, Peter Michael & Tangermann, Stefan & von Witzke, Harald & Wesseler, Justus
• BEITRAGE DES 3. DOKTORANDENWORKSHOPS ZUR AGRARENTWICKLUNG IN MITTEL- UND OSTEUROPA 2005
  by Curtiss, Jarmila & Petrick, Martin & Balmann, Alfons
• Price Formation on Land Market Auctions in East Germany – An Empirical Analysis
  by Huettel, Silke & Odening, Martin & Kataria, Karin & Balmann, Alfons
• Über Bauernhöfe und Agrarfabriken: Kann die Landwirtschaft gesellschaftliche Erwartungen erfüllen?
  by Balmann, Alfons
• Decoupling Is not Equal to Decoupling: Structural, Income and Efficiency Effects of Different Ways to Decouple Direct Payments
  by Happe, Kathrin & Kellermann, Konrad & Balmann, Alfons & Sahrbacher, Christoph
• BEITRAGE DES 2.DOKTORANDENWORKSHOPS ZUR AGRARENTWICKLUNG IN MITTEL- UND OSTEUROPA 2004
  by Petrick, Martin & Balmann, Alfons
• BEITRAGE DES DOKTORANDENWORKSHOPS ZUR AGRARENTWICKLUNG IN MITTEL- UND OSTEUROPA 2003
  by Petrick, Martin & Balmann, Alfons & Lissitsa, Alexej
• Agricultural transition in Post-Soviet Europe and Central Asia after 25 years: International workshop in honor of Professor Zvi Lerman
  by 29 authorsKimhi, Ayal & Swinnen, Johan & Van Herck, Kristine & Vranken, Liesbet & Csaki, Csaba & Jambor, Attila & Koester, Ulrich & Herzfeld, Thomas & Glauben, Thomas & Dries, Liesbeth & Teuber, Ramona & Meyers, William H. & Goychuk, Kateryna & Krasnozhon, Leonid A. & Petrick, Martin & Djanibekov, Utkur & Van Assche, Kristof & Boezeman, Daan & Villamor, Grace & Djanibekov, Nodir & Lerman, Zvi & Steinbach, Sandro & Rybak, Mariusz & Sedik, David & Uzun, Vasilii & Balmann, Alfons & Hockmann, Heinrich & Kataria, Karin & Schaft, Franziska & Kislev, Yoav
• Predator or prey? - Effects of fast-growing farms on their neighborhood
  by Appel, F. & Balmann, A.
• Representation of decision-making in European agricultural agent-based models
  by 17 authorsHuber, Robert & Bakker, Martha & Balmann, Alfons & Berger, Thomas & Bithell, Mike & Brown, Calum & Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne & Xiong, Hang & Le, Quang Bao & Mack, Gabriele & Meyfroidt, Patrick & Millington, James & Müller, Birgit & Polhill, J. Gareth & Sun, Zhanli & Seidl, Roman & Troost, Christian & Finger, Robert
• Structural Implications of the CAP Reform after 2020 – The German Case
  by Appel, Franziska & Heinrich, Florian & Balmann, Alfons
• "Agricultural policy for the environment or environmental policy for agriculture?" On myths and (stylized) reality
  by Balmann, Alfons & Appel, Franziska & Heinrich, Florian & Pitson, Christine
• Effects of land market regulation – agent-based simulations of the NASG in Niedersachsen
  by Heinrich, Florian & Appel, Franziska & Balmann, Alfons
• Zukünftige ökonomische Herausforderungen der Agrarproduktion: Strukturwandel vor dem Hintergrund sich ändernder Märkte, Politiken und Technologien
  by Balmann, Alfons & Schaft, Franziska
• Human behaviour versus optimising agents and the resilience of farms – Insights from agent-based participatory experiments with FarmAgriPoliS
  by Appel, Franziska & Balmann, Alfons
• A framework to assess the resilience of farming systems
  by 31 authorsMeuwissen, Miranda P. M. & Feindt, Peter H. & Spiegel, Alisa & Termeer, Catrien J. A. M. & Mathijs, Erik & de Mey, Yann & Finger, Robert & Balmann, Alfons & Wauters, Erwin & Urquhart, Julie & Vigani, Mauro & Zawalińska, Katarzyna & Herrera, Hugo & Nicholas-Davies, Phillipa & Hansson, Helena & Paas, Wim & Slijper, Thomas & Coopmans, Isabeau & Vroege, Willemijn & Ciechomska, Anna & Accatino, Francesco & Kopainsky, Birgit & Poortvliet, P. Marijn & Candel, Jeroen J. L. & Maye, Damian & Severini, Simone & Senni, Saverio & Soriano, Bárbara & Lagerkvist, Carl-Johan & Peneva, Mariya & Gavrilescu, Camelia & Reidsma, Pytrik

editor of:

• Multi-level processes of integration and disintegration. Proceedings of the Third Green Week Scientific Conference
  edited by Schaft, Franziska & Balmann, Alfons
• Agriculture in the face of changing markets, institutions and policies: Challenges and strategies
  edited by Curtiss, Jarmila & Balmann, Alfons & Dautzenberg, Kirsti & Happe, Kathrin