Value chain analysis: Market malfunctioning in regional and international, agricultural value chains
Analyses of synergies and trade-offs between ecological and socioeconomic policy objectives
Transdisciplinary research: Analyses of sustainable transition pathways at individual institutions and aggregate, national levell
Positions
Sine 04/2025: Full Professor for Global Nutrition and Trade at Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Germany
Since 05/2020 - 03/2025: Junior Professor for Economics and their didactics at the School of Economic Disciplines, University of Siegen, Germany,
02/2020 - 05/2020: Assistant professor - Faculty of Economics and Management, Free University of Bolzano (Italy), Agricultural Economics and Rural Development
10/2016 - 01/2020: Postdoctoral researcher - Chair of Agricultural Market Analysis, Göttingen University, Germany, Own DFG Project: “Behaviour under imperfect competition on markets for agricultural goods in economically less developed countries, exemplified with the rubber value chain”
10/2006 – 09/2009 Bachelor of Arts: Area Studies of Asia / Africa. Focus region: East Africa, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Selected Publications
Caspari, S., N. Heiland, T. Kopp. "Vom Experiment zur Transformation - Wie Experimentierräume auf Zeit die nachhaltige Transformation voranbringen". Zeitschrift für Organisationsentwicklung, 1 (2025), pp. 1–19.
Kopp, Thomas, Alwin Dsouza, and Ashok K. Mishra. "The relation between contract type and market power: Evidence from a high-value crop in India." Food Policy 127 (2024): 102683.
Nabernegg, M., S. Lange, and T. Kopp. „Inflation in Germany: Energy Prices, Profit Shares, and Market Power in Different Sectors“. International Journal of Political Economy 53.4 (2024), pp. 342–363.
Kopp, T. (2022) "When switching costs cause market power: Rubber processing in Indonesia", Agricultural Economics, 53.3, p. 481-495.
Kopp, T. and Mishra, A. (2022) "Perishability and market power in Nepalese food crop production", Journal of Agricultural Economics, 73.2, p. 518-540.
Kopp,T. and Sexton, R. (2021) "Farmers, Traders, and Processors: Buyer Market Power and Double Marginalization in Indonesia", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 103.2, p. 543-568.
04/2025 Best Poster Award of the Agricultural Economics Society (AES) for Kopp, Dsouza & Mishra (n.n.): "Reducing Negative Effects of Risk Aversion on Okra Farming Outcomes in India"
08/2023 Research Discovery Award of the European Association for Agricultural Economics (EAAE) for Kopp and Sexton (2021), published in the “American Journal of Agricultural Economics”
10/2022 Dr. Wolfgang Dieter Lange Science Award 2022 by the Association for the Promotion of the School of Economic Disciplines at University of Siegen e.V. for Kopp and Sexton (2021), published in the “American Journal for Agricultural Economics”
10/2020 Promotional Award for Young Academics 2021 by the Association for the Promotion of the School of Economic Disciplines at University of Siegen e.V. for Kopp and Salecker (2020), published in the “Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control”
07/2018 Emerald LiteratiAward for the best article in 2017 for Kopp and Brümmer (2017), published in “China Agricultural Economic Review”
09/2017 Guest lecturer at Jambi University, Indonesia (Erasmus+ Key Action 107, EU)
09/2010 – 02/2011 Exchange student at University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (ERASMUS)
05/2009 – 06/2009 Exchange student at Zanzibar State University, Tanzania (DAAD)
05/2008 – 09/2008 Internship at Commit to Partnership e.V. and Asmerade, Togo (DAAD)
10/2007 – 01/2008 Internship at Tanzania Youth Coalition in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (DAAD)
