Dalheimer, B., & Bellemare, M. F. (2026). Global agricultural value chains and food prices. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
@article{dalheimer2026global,
title = {Global agricultural value chains and food prices},
author = {Dalheimer, Bernhard and Bellemare, Marc F},
journal = {American Journal of Agricultural Economics},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Wiley Online Library},
file = {GAVCFoodPrices.pdf},
slides = {GAVCFoodPricesSlides.pdf},
video = {https://youtu.be/mNdHzXLyn4Q}
}
Dalheimer, B., Foster, K., Shively, G., Pede, V. O., Fiankor, D.-D. D., Ricker-Gilbert, J., & Bist, P. (2026). Stocks and shocks: Assessing the relative roles of public and private inventories in buffering rice price volatility in the Philippines. Food Policy, 139, 103052. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919226000199
@article{dalheimer2026Stocks,
title = {Stocks and shocks: Assessing the relative roles of public and private inventories in buffering rice price volatility in the Philippines},
journal = {Food Policy},
volume = {139},
pages = {103052},
year = {2026},
issn = {0306-9192},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2026.103052},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919226000199},
author = {Dalheimer, Bernhard and Foster, Kenneth and Shively, Gerald and Pede, Valerian O. and Fiankor, Dela-Dem Doe and Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob and Bist, Pratibha},
video = {https://youtu.be/5nHxg1OIrVs},
slides = {StocksShocksSlides.pdf}
}
Public stockholding of food is politically contentious and economically challenging. Although private stocks are generally understood to be more efficient than public stocks at providing a reliable buffer against production shortfalls, private stocks often fail to stabilize prices during extreme food market shocks. Moreover, maintaining large public stock programs in which the government acts as the buyer or seller of last resort, can be very costly. This paper analyses the recent historical success of public and private rice stocks in stabilizing domestic rice prices in the Philippines, the world’s largest net importer of rice. Relying on competitive storage theory and disaggregated rice stock data, we identify statistically independent global demand, global supply, domestic production and domestic demand shocks using Independent Component Analysis (ICA) in a Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) framework. We use monthly retail price data for 2000 to 2024 which allows us to leverage an exogeneous policy shift in stock policy. Using impulse response functions, counterfactual paths and historical decompositions we find that inventories have successfully buffered shocks, yet their relative efficacy has depended upon holder and size. Commercial stocks smooth routine volatility, while modest, rule-based public reserves are indispensable during large food market crises and when domestic production shortfalls coincide with international price hikes. We suggest that a hybrid strategy which combines private working stocks with a modest public reserve program, and which is flexible in terms of budget and procurement regulation, can be a cost-effective tool to dampen food-price volatility.
Fiankor, D.-D. D., Dalheimer, B., & Mack, G. (2025). Pesticide regulatory heterogeneity, foreign sourcing, and global agricultural value chains. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 107(2), 611–634.
@article{fiankor2025pesticide,
title = {Pesticide regulatory heterogeneity, foreign sourcing, and global agricultural value chains},
author = {Fiankor, Dela-Dem Doe and Dalheimer, Bernhard and Mack, Gabriele},
journal = {American Journal of Agricultural Economics},
volume = {107},
number = {2},
pages = {611--634},
year = {2025},
video = {https://youtu.be/l_kkw-VYm9Y},
publisher = {Wiley Online Library},
file = {MRLsForeignSourcing.pdf},
slides = {MRLSForeignSourcingSlides.pdf}
}
Dalheimer, B., Parikoglou, I., Brambach, F., Yanita, M., Kreft, H., & Brümmer, B. (2024). On the palm oil-biodiversity trade-off: Environmental performance of smallholder producers. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 125, 102975.
@article{dalheimer2024palm,
title = {On the palm oil-biodiversity trade-off: Environmental performance of smallholder producers},
author = {Dalheimer, Bernhard and Parikoglou, Iordanis and Brambach, Fabian and Yanita, Mirawati and Kreft, Holger and Br{\"u}mmer, Bernhard},
journal = {Journal of Environmental Economics and Management},
volume = {125},
pages = {102975},
year = {2024},
publisher = {Elsevier},
slides = {PalmOilBiodiversityTradeOffSlides.pdf},
file = {PalmOilBiodiversityTradeOff.pdf},
video = {https://youtu.be/tt3-gdmjXhs}
}
Fiankor, D.-D. D., Dalheimer, B., Curzi, D., Hoffmeister, O., & Brümmer, B. (2024). Does it matter how we ship the good apples out? On specific tariffs, transport modes, and agricultural export prices. Agricultural Economics, 55(3), 498–514.
@article{fiankor2024does,
title = {Does it matter how we ship the good apples out? On specific tariffs, transport modes, and agricultural export prices},
author = {Fiankor, Dela-Dem Doe and Dalheimer, Bernhard and Curzi, Daniele and Hoffmeister, Onno and Br{\"u}mmer, Bernhard},
journal = {Agricultural Economics},
volume = {55},
number = {3},
pages = {498--514},
year = {2024},
publisher = {Wiley Online Library},
file = {TariffsMoTPrices.pdf}
}
Hoffmeister, O., & Dalheimer, B. (2024). A linear model to estimate modal split in international freight transport, based on revealed preferences about cost and time saving. Journal of Shipping and Trade, 9(1), 28.
@article{hoffmeister2024linear,
title = {A linear model to estimate modal split in international freight transport, based on revealed preferences about cost and time saving},
author = {Hoffmeister, Onno and Dalheimer, Bernhard},
journal = {Journal of Shipping and Trade},
volume = {9},
number = {1},
pages = {28},
year = {2024},
publisher = {Springer},
file = {LinearModelMoT.pdf}
}
Dalhaus, T., Steinhübel, L., Dalheimer, B., & Colen, L. (2024). The future of research on sustainable food systems: Building an early-career network of agricultural economists in Europe. Agribusiness, 40(2), 319–324.
@article{dalhaus2024future,
title = {The future of research on sustainable food systems: Building an early-career network of agricultural economists in Europe},
author = {Dalhaus, Tobias and Steinh{\"u}bel, Linda and Dalheimer, Bernhard and Colen, Liesbeth},
journal = {Agribusiness},
volume = {40},
number = {2},
pages = {319--324},
year = {2024},
publisher = {Wiley Online Library}
}
Vogel, E., Dalheimer, B., Beber, C. L., de Mori, C., Palhares, J. C. P., & Novo, A. L. M. (2023). Environmental efficiency and methane abatement costs of dairy farms from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Food Policy, 119, 102520.
@article{vogel2023environmental,
title = {Environmental efficiency and methane abatement costs of dairy farms from Minas Gerais, Brazil},
author = {Vogel, Everton and Dalheimer, Bernhard and Beber, Caetano Luiz and de Mori, Claudia and Palhares, Julio Cesar Pascale and Novo, Andr{\'e} Luiz Monteiro},
journal = {Food Policy},
volume = {119},
pages = {102520},
year = {2023},
publisher = {Elsevier}
}
Dalheimer, B., Kubitza, C., & Brümmer, B. (2022). Technical efficiency and farmland expansion: Evidence from oil palm smallholders in Indonesia. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 104(4), 1364–1387.
@article{dalheimer2022technical,
title = {Technical efficiency and farmland expansion: Evidence from oil palm smallholders in Indonesia},
author = {Dalheimer, Bernhard and Kubitza, Christoph and Br{\"u}mmer, Bernhard},
journal = {American Journal of Agricultural Economics},
volume = {104},
number = {4},
pages = {1364--1387},
year = {2022},
publisher = {Wiley Online Library},
file = {EfficiencyLandExpansion.pdf},
video = {https://youtu.be/HgiuSJkSp4E}
}
Bruns, S., Dalheimer, B., & Musshoff, O. (2022). The effect of cognitive function on the poor’s economic performance: Evidence from Cambodian smallholder farmers. Agricultural Economics, 53(3), 468–480.
@article{bruns2022effect,
title = {The effect of cognitive function on the poor's economic performance: Evidence from Cambodian smallholder farmers},
author = {Bruns, Selina and Dalheimer, Bernhard and Musshoff, Oliver},
journal = {Agricultural Economics},
volume = {53},
number = {3},
pages = {468--480},
year = {2022},
file = {EfficiencyCognitiveFunction.pdf},
publisher = {Wiley Online Library}
}
Dalheimer, B., Herwartz, H., & Lange, A. (2021). The threat of oil market turmoils to food price stability in Sub-Saharan Africa. Energy Economics, 93, 105029.
@article{dalheimer2021threat,
title = {The threat of oil market turmoils to food price stability in Sub-Saharan Africa},
author = {Dalheimer, Bernhard and Herwartz, Helmut and Lange, Alexander},
journal = {Energy Economics},
volume = {93},
pages = {105029},
year = {2021},
file = {OilShocks.pdf},
slides = {OilShocksSlides.pdf},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.105029},
publisher = {Elsevier},
video = {https://youtu.be/4ziI6XYgAn0}
}
Lange, A., Dalheimer, B., Herwartz, H., & Maxand, S. (2021). svars: An R package for data-driven identification in multivariate time series analysis. Journal of Statistical Software, 97, 1–34.
@article{lange2021svars,
title = {svars: An R package for data-driven identification in multivariate time series analysis},
author = {Lange, Alexander and Dalheimer, Bernhard and Herwartz, Helmut and Maxand, Simone},
journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
volume = {97},
pages = {1--34},
year = {2021},
file = {svars.pdf}
}
Berger, J., Dalheimer, B., & Brümmer, B. (2021). Effects of variable EU import levies on corn price volatility. Food Policy, 102, 102063.
@article{berger2021effects,
title = {Effects of variable EU import levies on corn price volatility},
author = {Berger, Jurij and Dalheimer, Bernhard and Br{\"u}mmer, Bernhard},
journal = {Food Policy},
volume = {102},
pages = {102063},
year = {2021},
publisher = {Elsevier},
file = {EULevies.pdf}
}