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Prof. Dr. Michael Kirk

Honorary Board Member

(Retired) Professor for Development and Cooperation Economics in the School of Business & Economics at the University of Marburg (Retired since 3/2021)

Fields of Work

  • (Cooperative) Collaboration, Collective Action, and Self-help Organizations in Developing and Emerging Economies
  • Institutions and Institutional Change in the Development Process
  • Land and Resource Management, Land and Resource Policy in Developing and Emerging Countries
  • Economics of “Global Public Goods,” particularly biodiversity and the fight against desertification
  • Decentralization and Deregulation in Developing Countries

Current Publications (Selection)

Mantel, de Vries & Kirk (2017) “Improving Local Government Services in Jamaica” GIM International, 29-31.

Väth, Gobien & Kirk (2017) “Life satisfaction, contract farming and property rights: Evidence from Ghana”, Land Use Policy (in print)

Vorlaufer, Falk, Dufhues, Kirk (2017) “Payments for ecosystem services and agricultural intensification: Evidence from a choice experiment on deforestation in Zambia”, Ecological Economics, 141, 95-105.

Kirk (2017) “Support to Land Reform in Namibia. Knowledge Management Report”, GIZ Publication (with contributions of A. Lange & J. Middleton), Windhoek.

Falk, Kirk, Lohmann, Kruger, Hüttich & Kamukenjandje (2016) “The profits of excludability and transferability in redistributive land reform in central Namibia”, Development Southern Africa.

Falk, Kirk, Lohmann, Kruger, Hüttich & Kamukenjandje (2016) “The profits of excludability and transferability in redistributive land reform in central Namibia”, Development Southern Africa.

Remi, Kirk & Sunday (2015) “Women Access to Land: The Compatibility of Property Rights on the Farming Activities of Women in Rice Producing Areas of Osun State, Nigeria”, International Journal of Research in Agriculture and Forestry, 2:10, 34-42.

Kirk, Antonio, Mabikke & Espinoza (2014) “Land Tenure Security in Selected Countries: Synthesis report”, UN-Habitat, Nairobi.

Väth & Kirk (2014) “Do property rights and contract farming matter for rural development? Evidence from a large-scale investment in Ghana”, Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics, No. 16-2014.