Arne Henningsen
Permanent homepage: http://www.arne-henningsen.name/
Email: arne(dot)henningsen(at)gmail(dot)com
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News
- I have left the University of Kiel to start a position as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Food and Resource Economics of the University of Copenhagen (see also my permanent homepage).
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Börsenverein Warenterminmarkt (Commodity Trading Group)
Research Areas
- Applied Microeconomics
- Applied Econometrics
- Agricultural Economics
- Econometric Software
Education
- Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel (Germany), Summa Cum Laude, 2006
- M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel (Germany), 2001
- European M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Wageningen University (The Netherlands), 2001
Research Experience
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, State University of New York at Binghamton (USA), Dec 2008 – Mar 2009
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel (Germany), Jul 2006 – Nov 2008 and Apr 2009 – May 2009
- Ph.D Student, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel (Germany), Okt 2001 – Jul 2006
- Research Assistant, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome (Italy), Sep – Nov 2000
- Research Assistant, Soil Fertility Department, Iowa State University, Ames (Iowa / USA), Aug – Sep 1998
Teaching
Winter Term 2007/08 (WS 2007/08)
Selected Other Courses
- Vorlesung "Mikroökonomische Grundlagen der Agrarpolitik" (Intermediate Microeconomics)
- Übung "Mikroökonomische Grundlagen der Agrarpolitik" (Practical Course in Intermediate Microeconomics, with Econometric Demand and Production Analysis)
Publications:
Articles in Refereed Journals
- Arne Henningsen (2009): Why is the Polish Farm Sector still so Underdeveloped? Post-Communist Economies, 21(1), p. 47-64.
- Toomet, Ott and Arne Henningsen (2008): Sample Selection Models in R: Package sampleSelection. Journal of Statistical Software 27(7), p. 1-23
- Henning, Christian H.C.A. and Arne Henningsen (2007): Modeling Farm Households' Price Responses in the Presence of Transaction Costs and Heterogeneity in Labor Markets. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89(3), p. 665-681.
- Henningsen, Arne and Jeff Hamann (2007): systemfit: A Package for Estimating Systems of Simultaneous Equations in R. Journal of Statistical Software 23(4), p. 1-40.
- Henningsen, Arne (2007): Tools for Collaborative Writing of Scientific LaTeX Documents. The PracTeX Journal 2007(3), p. 1-15.
- Burrell, Alison and Arne Henningsen (2001): An Empirical Investigation of the Demand for Bananas in Germany. Agrarwirtschaft 50(4), p. 242-249.
Monographs
- Henningsen, A. (2006): Modellierung von Angebots- und Nachfrageverhalten zur Analyse von Agrarpolitiken: Theorie, Methoden und empirische Anwendungen. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Agricultural Economics, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.
- Henning, Christian H.C.A., Arne Henningsen, Carsten Struve and Jörg Müller-Scheeßel (2005): Auswirkungen der Mid-Term-Review-Beschlüsse auf den Agrarsektor und das Agribusiness in Schleswig-Holstein und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Agrarwirtschaft, Sonderheft 178. [ HTML version].
- Henningsen, A. (2001): Ökonometrische Nachfrageanalyse auf der Grundlage dualer Funktionsansätze: Das Beispiel des deutschen Bananenmarktes. Master Thesis, Department of Agricultural Economics, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.
Articles in Collections
- Henningsen, Arne, Christian H.C.A. Henning, Carsten Struve and Jörg Müller-Scheeßel (2005): Economic Impact of the Mid-term Review on Agricultural Production, Farm Income and Farm Survival: A Quantitative Analysis for Local Sub-regions of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. In Arfini, Filippo (editor), Modelling Agricultural Policies: State of the Art and New Challenges, Proceedings of the 89th European Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), Monte Università, Parma, p. 757-772.
- Wiebusch, Anja, Christian H.C.A. Henning, and Arne Henningsen (2004): Analyse von Transaktionskosten auf dem ländlichen Kreditmarkt in Polen. In Grosskopf, W., F. Heidhues, and J. Zeddies (editors), Perspektiven in der Landnutzung - Regionen, Landschaften, Betriebe - Entscheidungsträger und Instrumente, volume 39, Schriften der Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaues e.V., Münster-Hiltrup Landwirtschaftsverlag, p. 363-371.
- Henningsen, Arne (2003): Die EU Bananenmarktordnung und die Nachfrage in Deutschland. In Penker, M. and S. Pfusterschmid (editors), Wie steuerbar ist die Landwirtschaft? Erfordernisse, Potentiale und Instrumente zur Ökologisierung der Landwirtschaft, Dokumentation der 11. ÖGA-Jahrestagung an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 27. und 28. September 2001, Facultas, Wien, p. 157-164.
Scientific Software
- Henningsen, Arne and Jeff Hamann: systemfit - A package for the free Statistical Software "R" for fitting simultaneous systems of equations using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR), Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS), and Three-Stage Least Squares (3SLS). Published on: CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network). Further information is available at http://www.systemfit.org/.
- Henningsen, Arne: micEcon - A package for the free Statistical Software "R" for microeconomic analysis and microeconomic modelling. Published on: CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network). Further information is available at http://www.micEcon.org/.
- Henningsen, Arne and Ott Toomet: sampleSelection - A package for the free Statistical Software "R" for estimating sample selection models. Published on: CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network). Further information is available at http://www.sampleSelection.org/.
- Coelli, Tim and Arne Henningsen: frontier - A package for the free Statistical Software "R" for Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). Published on: CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network). Further information is available at http://frontier.r-forge.r-project.org/.
- Toomet, Ott, Arne Henningsen, and Spencer Graves: maxLik - A package for the free Statistical Software "R" for maximum likelihood estimations. Published on: CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network). Further information is available at http://www.maxLik.org/.
- Henningsen, Arne: linprog - A package for the free Statistical Software "R" providing functions for Linear Programming / Optimization using the well-known Simplex-algorithm. Very detailed results are presented (e.g. stability and sensitivity analysis). Furthermore it contains tools to read and write MPS files. Published on: CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network). Further information is available at http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/linprog.html.
Presentations at Conferences
- Arne Henningsen and Christian H.C.A. Henning (2007): Econometric Estimation of Farm Household Decisions in the Presence of Labor Market Imperfections. Paper presented at the 4th Nordic Econometric Meeting, Tartu, Estonia, 24-26 May, 2007.
- Arne Henningsen and Ott Toomet (2006): Microeconomic Analysis with R. Presentation at the second international R user conference, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, Austria, 15-17 April, 2006.
- Arne Henningsen and Jeff D. Hamann (2006): systemfit: A package to estimate simultaneous equation systems in R. Presentation at the second international R user conference, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, Austria, 15-17 April, 2006.
- Henningsen, Arne, Christian H.C.A. Henning, Carsten Struve and Jörg Müller-Scheeßel (2005): Economic Impact of the Mid-Term-Review Reform on Agricultural Production, Farm Income and Farm Survival: A Quantitative Analysis for Local Sub Regions of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. Contributed paper presented at the XIth International Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) in Copenhagen.
- Henning, Christian H.C.A. and Arne Henningsen (2005): Modelling Price Response of Farm Households Under Imperfect Labour Markets: A Farm Household Approach to Family Farms in Poland. Paper presented at the 94th EAAE Seminar "From households to firms with independent legal status: the spectrum of institutional units in the development of European agriculture" in Wye, UK. [Slides, printable version].
- Henningsen, Arne, Christian H.C.A. Henning, Carsten Struve and Jörg Müller-Scheeßel (2005): Economic Impact of the Mid-Term-Review Reform on Agricultural Production, Farm Income and Farm Survival: A Quantitative Analysis for Local Sub Regions of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. Paper presented at the 89th EAAE Seminar "Modelling agricultural policies: state of the art and new challenges" in Parma, Italy. [Slides].
- Henningsen, Arne (2003): How to estimate the "Almost Ideal Demand System". Poster presented at the 25th International Conference of Agricultural Economists in Durban, South Africa.
- Glauben, Thomas, Christian H.C.A. Henning and Arne Henningsen (2003): Farm household decisions under various tax policies: Comparative static results and evidence from household data. Paper presented at the 25th International Conference of Agricultural Economists in Durban, South Africa. [Slides].
- Henningsen, Arne (2002): Demand Analysis with the AIDS and LAIDS: Problems and possible solutions. Poster presented at the Xth Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) in Zaragoza, Spain.
- Glauben, Thomas, Christian H.C.A. Henning and Arne Henningsen (2002): Tax policies and the labor market constrained farm household: Theoretical results and evidence from household data. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) in Long Beach.
- Henningsen, Arne (2001): Die EU Bananenmarktordnung und die Nachfrage in Deutschland. Paper presented at the 11th Conference of the Austrian Association of Agricultural Economists (ÖGA) in Graz.
Other Publications
- Christian H.C.A. Henning and Arne Henningsen (2007): AJAE appendix: Modeling farm households' price responses in the presence of transaction costs and heterogeneity in labor markets. Available at http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/
- Henningsen, Arne, Jörg Müller-Scheeßel and Carsten Struve (2005): Agrarreform - was tun unter neuen politischen Rahmenbedingungen? Bauernblatt Schleswig-Holstein, 59(15), p. 22-25.
- Improved version of Tim Coelli's software FRONTIER 4.1 for stochastic frontier analysis
- economtex project: LaTeX classes/styles and BibTeX styles for economists
- Syntax highlighting definitions for kate (KDE advanced text editor)
Honors, Awards, and Grants
- Research Grant of the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" (German Research Foundation, DFG) for the project "Econometric analysis of labour allocation in Polish family farms in the presence of labour market imperfections", 2008 – 2010
- Best poster presentation of young researchers at the 12th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), 2008
- "Förderpreis der Agrarwirtschaft 2003", Best Master Thesis in Agricultural Economics in Germany 2001 – 2003
- Scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Merit Foundation), 1999 – 2001
Referee for Scientific Journals
- Agrarwirtschaft
- Agricultural Economics
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Applied Economics
- Empirical Economics
- European Review of Agricultural Economics
- Journal of Statistical Software
Last Update: 15 May 2009