Matthias Ritter


Matthias is now at the University of Tübingen, Germany:

https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/271563

 

In November 2021, Matthias Ritter joined JIBS and the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Studies (CEnSE) as an Assistant Professor of Economics and became Associate Professor ("docent") in November 2023. From 2016 to 2021, Matthias was junior professor for Quantitative Agricultural Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He has earned his PhD in Economics from the Technical University Berlin in 2013. His dissertation was about “Weather Risk Management with Weather Derivatives”. Matthias’ research mostly focuses on land markets, weather and climate risk, and renewable energies.

 

Professional Experience

Since 11/2023: Associate professor ("docent") of Economics at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), Jönköping University

11/2021 - 11/2023: Assistant professor of Economics at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), Jönköping University

05/2016 - 10/2021: Junior professor for Quantitative Agricultural Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

02/2019 - 04/2019: Visiting scholar at the Department of Agricultural Economics of the University of Kentucky (USA)

11/2013 - 04/2016: Postdoctoral Researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Department of Agricultural Economics, Farm Management Group)

01/2011 - 10/2013: Research associate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Department of Agricultural Economics, Farm Management Group)

01/2010 - 02/2013: Research associate at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Chair of Farm Management)

01/2010 - 12/2018: Member of the Collaborative Research Center 649 “Economic Risk“

Education

PhD in Economics (Dr. rer. oec.), Technische Universität Berlin (06/2013)
Dissertation: "Weather Risk Management with Weather Derivatives"

Study: Mathematics and Economics at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Technische Universität Berlin, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Degree: Dipl.-Math., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (10/2009)
Diploma thesis: "Weather derivatives: An Overview of Models, Pricing and Hedging" (in German)

Research Interests

  • Agricultural land markets
  • Weather risk and climate change
  • Renewable energies, especially wind energy
  • Data analysis and applied econometrics