Valuation Methods in Agro-food and Environmental Economics. What’s next?

Event Information

Date:
Wednesday 3 December 2025 — Thursday 4 December 2025
Location:
Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Castelldefels (Spain)

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Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2025

The European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists - EAERE are pleased to announce the workshop on"Valuation Methods in Agro-food and Environmental Economics. What’s next?", to be held at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Castelldefels (Spain), on December 3-4, 2025. This workshop is the first EAAE-EAERE jointly organised event.

 

The workshop

The workshop constitutes an opportunity to bring agro-food and environmental economists together to review the state-of-the-art on valuation methods as well as future challenges. This workshop has the objective of becoming a forum in which scientists dealing with valuation methods periodically meet to discuss both empirical and methodological questions of different methodologies. Moreover, it aims at opening the door for new editions in the collaborating framework between EAAE and EAERE.

 

The workshop aims at covering the following topics:

  • Development, application and theoretical basis for valuation methods in general;
  • Incorporating risk and uncertainty in valuation methods;
  • Incentive compatible alternatives and experimental economics;
  • Methodological issues raised in applications;
  • Advantages and disadvantages facing alternative valuation methods;
  • Data input, econometric analysis and interpretation stages.

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Expected participants

The EAAE-EAERE Workshop on Valuation Methods in Agro-food and Environmental Economics is aimed at scientific audience from different disciplines interested in Valuation Methods both from a methodological and/or empirical point of view, who are member of the EAAE or EAERE at the time of registration for the seminar. To become a member, please visit the EAAE or EAERE websites.

 

Submissions

To participate in the workshop, interested people must submit a contributed paper proposal (around two pages, single space and standard Arial 11 point type) which should include at least the motivation and the methodological framework plus an outline of main results. The file must be named with the last name of the first author. All documents should be submitted electronically in PDF format (name-abstract.pdf) to the following electronic address: eaaeworkshop@creda.es. Please note that if the same authors send more than one manuscript, the index number must be used as follows: name1.pdf, name2.pdf. Be sure to review the PDF file you have created before sending it to check that text and formulas (if any) have transferred correctly.

 

The Steering Committee invites submissions on the following topics:

  • Applications in Food Economics and consumer behaviour;
  • Applications in Environmental Natural Resource Economics;
  • Applications in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policies;
  • Comparisons of reliability of alternative valuation methods;
  • Methodological issues (e.g. respondents’ prior knowledge and involvement, heterogeneity, risk and uncertainty);
  • Modelling tools for generated data.

 The deadline for paper proposal submissions is set on September 15, 2025.

 

Evaluation

Proposals will be evaluated by two referees following a standard double-blind process. Referees will be suggested by the Steering Committee. Authors from accepted proposals will be notified by October 20, 2025. A maximum number between 30 and 40 proposals will be accepted. Authors from accepted proposals will be requested to send the full paper by November 10, 2025. In the notification letter, the Organizing Committee will provide guidelines for paper submission.

 

Programme

The workshop's programme will be available in due time.

 

Registration fees

Fees paid prior November 10, 2025: € 275.

Fees paid after November 10, 2025: € 325.

The fee covers documentation, lunches, workshop dinner and coffee breaks.

 

Venue and logistics

The Workshop will be held in the Escola d’Enginyeria Agroalimentària i de Biosistemes de Barcelona (EEABB), at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, in Castelldefels (Spain), 30 minutes far by train from Barcelona city centre. For more information on how to reach the venue and accommodation discounts, please visit the workshop's web page

 

Steering Committee

  • Simone Borghesi, EAERE, European University Institute and University of Siena
  • Vicenzina Caputo, Michigan State University
  • Salvatore Di Falco, University of Geneva
  • Iain Fraser, University of Kent
  • Efthymia Kyriakopoulou, Athens University of Economics and Business
  • Jutta Roosen, Technical University of Munich

 

Organising Committee

  • José M. Gil Roig, CREDA, University of Catalonia (UPC)
  • Djamel Rahmani, CREDA, University of Catalonia (UPC)
  • Cristina Poyato Santiago, CREDA, University of Catalonia (UPC)

 

Important dates

15 September 2025: Paper proposal submission deadline 

20 October 2025: Notification of accepted proposals

10 November 2025: Full paper submission

3-4 December 2025: Workshop

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