Research
My research lies on the intersection of agricultural economics, environmental governance, and behavioural experiments.
PhD research
My PhD research investigated farmer preferences for the institutional design of agri-environmental contracts. The dissertation can be found here.
Publications
Sagebiel, J., Schulze, C., & Rommel, J. (2026). A Pre-Registration Template for Transparent Choice Experiment Research. Q Open, qoag026.
Zawadzki, W., Czajkowski, M., Rommel, J., Sagebiel, J., & Schulze, C. (2026). Convergent Validity in Incentive-Compatible Contingent Valuation: Bid-vector and elicitation format effects. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 103410.
Budziński, W., Czajkowski, M., Le Clec’h, S., Markiewicz, O., Matzdorf, B., Opatrný, M., … & Zawadzki, W. (2026). Volumetric choice experiments and welfare measures in a subsidy-driven context. Resource and Energy Economics, 101572.
Rønn, T. H., Schulze, C., Czajkowski, M., Matzdorf, B., Moreno-Pérez, O. M., Olsen, S. B., … & Zawadzki, W. (2026). Weak pulse: a Q-methodology study of stakeholder viewpoints on barriers in European food legume value chains. Food Policy, 139, 103033.
Schulze, C., Glenk, K., Sagebiel, J., & Matzdorf, B. (2026). Private or Public? Farmer Preferences and Identities in Agri‐Environmental Contract Implementation. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 77(1), 107-129.
Moroder, A., Reichenspurner, M., Erismann, C., Schulze, C., & Matzdorf, B. (2025). Farmers’ views on the institutional design of agri-environmental collectives: a case study in Brandenburg, Germany. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1-29.
Baaken, M. C., Kuhfuss, L., Bougherara, D., Czajkowski, M., Rodriguez‐Entrena, M., Höhler, J., … & Zagórska, K. (2025). Multi‐country perspectives on best practices and barriers to preference elicitation lab‐in‐the‐field experiments with farmers. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 47(2), 723-746.
Pätzke, F., Schulze, C., Hack, J., Castro-Arce, K., Neumann, V. A., & Schröter, B. (2024). Attitudes of political-administrative decision makers towards the implementation of nature-based solutions in water management–a case study on a hypothetical constructed wetland in the Tárcoles River basin. Ecosystems and People, 20(1), 2339228.
Schulze, C., Matzdorf, B., Rommel, J., Czajkowski, M., García-Llorente, M., Gutiérrez-Briceño, I., … & Zawadzki, W. (2024). Between farms and forks: Food industry perspectives on the future of EU food labelling. Ecological Economics, 217, 108066.
Schulze, C., Zagórska, K., Häfner, K., Markiewicz, O., Czajkowski, M., & Matzdorf, B. (2023). Using farmers’ ex ante preferences to design agri‐environmental contracts: A systematic review. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 75(1), 44-83.
Schulze, C., & Matzdorf, B. (2023). The institutional design of agri-environmental contracts-How stakeholder attitudes can inform policy making. Q Open, 3(1), qoad001.
Rommel, J., Sagebiel, J., Baaken, M. C., Barreiro‐Hurlé, J., Bougherara, D., Cembalo, L., … & Zagórska, K. (2022). Farmers’ risk preferences in 11 European farming systems: A multi‐country replication of Bocquého et al.(2014). Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 45(3), 1374-1399.
Rommel, J., Schulze, C., Matzdorf, B., Sagebiel, J., & Wechner, V. (2022). Learning about German farmers’ willingness to cooperate from public goods games and expert predictions. Q Open, 3(3), qoac023.
Sattler, C., Rommel, J., Chen, C., García-Llorente, M., Gutiérrez-Briceño, I., Prager, K., … & Kelemen, E. (2022). Participatory research in times of COVID-19 and beyond: Adjusting your methodological toolkits. One Earth, 5(1), 62-73.
Tafel, L., Ott, E., Brillinger, M., Schulze, C., & Schröter, B. (2021). Attitudes of administrative decision-makers towards nature-based solutions for flood risk management in Germany. Sustainability Science, 1-15.
Glenk, K., Faccioli, M., Martin-Ortega, J., Schulze, C., & Potts, J. (2021). The opportunity cost of delaying climate action: Peatland restoration and resilience to climate change. Global Environmental Change, 70, 102323.
Norris, J., Matzdorf, B., Barghusen, R., Schulze, C., & van Gorcum, B. (2021). Viewpoints on Cooperative Peatland Management: Expectations and Motives of Dutch Farmers. Land, 10(12), 1326.