Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung

Education

  • 05/2011-05/2015: Dr. sc. agr.. Agricultural Economics: Empirical investigations on performance and dynamics of agricultural firms. Georg-August-University Göttingen.
  • 10/2008-08/2010: M.Sc. in International Agribusiness, Georg-August-University Göttingen.
  • 02/2008-07/2008: M.Sc. in International Agribusiness, Universidad de Talca, Chile.
  • 01/2001-12/2004: Agricultural Engineer, Zamorano, Honduras.
  • 12/2000: General certificate of secondary education, Calasanz School, Managua, Nicaragua.

    • Current Position

    Research Assistant at the Chair of Agricultural Policy, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development.


    Work experience

  • 05/2011- present: Coordinator of M.Sc. program in International Agribusiness and Rural Development-IARD. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany.
  • 03/2006 - 02/2008: Consultant. Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Managua, Nicaragua.
  • 11/2005 - 11/2006: University teaching professional. University of Commercial Sciences, Managua, Nicaragua.
  • 12/2005 - 06/2006: Consultant. Institute of Rural Development (IDR), Jinotega, Nicaragua.

    • Internships

  • 12/2010-03/2011: Marketing Department. John Deere Werke, Mannheim, Germany.
  • 01/2005 – 06/2005: Research student assistant. Everglades Research and Education Centre, University of Florida, Belle Glade, USA.

    • List of scientific presentations

  • Brenes-Muñoz, T. (2015). Testing the effect of firm performance on growth for the Chilean agribusiness. Paper presented at the 29th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), Milan, Italy.

  • Lakner, S., Brenes-Muñoz, T., Rivera-Aedo, E. and Brümmer, B. (2014). Technical Efficiency in the Chilean Agribusiness Sector? A Stochastic Meta-Frontier Approach. Paper presented at the 8th North American Productivity Workshop, Ottawa, Canada.

  • Lakner, S., Brenes-Muñoz, T., Rivera-Aedo, E. and Brümmer, B. (2014). Technical Efficiency in the Chilean Agribusiness Sector? A Stochastic Meta-Frontier Approach, Poster session presented at the 14th EAAE Congress, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

  • Lakner, S., Brenes-Muñoz, T., Rivera-Aedo, E. and Brümmer, B. (2013). Technical Efficiency in the Chilean Agribusiness Sector ? A Stochastic Meta-Frontier Approach. Paper presented at the IATRC Symposium "Productivity and Its Impacts on Global Trade", Sevilla, Spain.

  • Brenes-Muñoz, T., Lakner, S. and Brümmer, B. (2012). Economic growth of farms: An empirical analysis on organic farming, Paper presented at the 28th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.

  • Brenes-Muñoz, T., Lakner, S. and Brümmer, B. (2011). Determinants of economic growth in organic farming: the case of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg, Contributed Paper presented at the 13th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), Zürich, Switzerland.

  • Brenes-Muñoz, T., Lakner, S. and Brümmer, B. (2011). Determinants of economic growth in organic farming: the case of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, Paper presented at the 11th Scientific Conference on Organic Agriculture (Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany.

    • Languages

    Spanish, English, German