Dr. Konstantinos Giannakas - Advisees

Hosni, Hanin. Essays on Portion Size, Obesity and Food Waste. Ph.D. dissertation completed in 2023 (Advisor). Hanin is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Delaware. 

Chennak, Ahmed. Essays on Patent Licensing: Externalities, Organized Activism, and Cooperatives. Ph.D. dissertation completed in 2022 (Advisor). Ahmed is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Nebraska. 

Deka, Anubrata. The Economic Impacts of Private Politics in Food Markets. Ph.D. dissertation completed in 2022 (Co-Advisor). Anubrata is currently a faculty member in the Department of Economics, Flame University, India. 

Ray, Susweta. The Economics of Fake Transparency and the “Buy Local” Trend. Ph.D. dissertation completed in 2021 (Advisor). Susweta is currently a Data Scientist, Analytics and Corporate Strategy, Grainger. 

Lee, Yunkyung. Economic Impacts of a U.S. Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax. Ph.D. dissertation completed in 2021 (Advisor). Yunkyung is currently a faculty member in the Department of Agribusiness and Food Industry Management/Agricultural Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. 

Mavroutsikos, Charalampos. On the Economics of Crop Insurance. Ph.D. dissertation completed in 2019 (Advisor). Charalampos is currently a Research Fellow in the Public Policy Center at the University of Nebraska. 

Meerza, Imran. The Incidence of Fraud in the Agri-Food Marketing System. Ph.D. dissertation completed in 2017 (Advisor). Imran is currently a faculty member in the Department of Agriculture, Arkansas Tech University. 

Tran, Miah. Consumer Attitudes, Labeling Regimes, and the Market Success of Food Nanotechnology. Ph.D. dissertation completed in 2015 (Advisor). Miah is currently a faculty member in the Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Bhattacharya, Suparna. Market and Welfare Effects of Renewable Portfolio Standard in the U.S. Compliance and Voluntary Green Power Markets. Ph.D. Dissertation completed in 2014 (Advisor). Suparna is currently a Senior Economist for the Oregon Public Utility Commission.

Omidvar, Vahid. Fair-Trade Coffee, Nebraska Bottle Bill, and Process Innovation Efficiency in the Canadian Food Manufacturing. Ph.D. Dissertation completed in 2012 (Advisor). Vahid is currently the Trade Policy Analyst at the Canadian Sugar Institute.

Lassoued, Rim. Market and Welfare Effects of the Introduction of Second- Generation, Consumer-Oriented Genetically Modified Products in the European Union. M.Sc. thesis completed at MAICh in 2008 (Advisor). Rim is currently a Research Associate at the University of Saskatchewan.

Plastina, Alejandro. Essays on Innovations in the Agriculture and Food Industry Sectors. Ph.D. Dissertation completed in 2007 (Co-Advisor). Alejandro was an Economist with the International Cotton Advisory Committee in Washington D.C. and is currently a faculty member in the Department of Economics, Iowa State University.

Drivas, Kyriakos. The Effect of Cooperatives on Innovation. M.Sc. thesis completed in 2006 (Advisor). Kyriakos received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a faculty member in the Department of Economics, University of Piraeus, Greece.

Veyssiere, Luc. Strategic Labeling and Trade of GMOs. M.Sc. thesis completed in 2004 (Advisor). Luc received a Ph.D. from Iowa State University and is currently a Manager with Ernst & Young in London.

Njoroge, Kenneth. Two Essays on Mandatory Price Reporting and Collusion. M.Sc. thesis completed in 2003 (Co-advisor). Kenneth received a Ph.D. from Duke University and is currently a faculty member in the Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon.

Onofri, Alejandro. Essays on Growth of the Agriculture and Food Industry Sectors. Ph.D. Dissertation completed in 2002 (Co-advisor). Alejandro is currently a Professor, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Universidad de La Plata, Argentina.