Dr. Matthias Ritter

Chair of Marketing

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Research Interests

Applied econometrics
Agricultural land markets
Renewable energy, especially wind energy
Weather risk and climate change

Teaching

Winter term 2024/25

Awards

Best Paper Award of the German Society for Economic and Social Sciences of Agriculture (GEWISOLA) at the Annual Meeting 2021
Humboldt Award for Excellence in Teaching 2020 (shortlist)
Best Paper Award of the German Society for Economic and Social Sciences of Agriculture (GEWISOLA) at the Annual Meeting 2020
Best Presentation Award of the German Society for Economic and Social Sciences of Agriculture (GEWISOLA) at the Annual Meeting 2020
Prize of Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft for the project “Market integration and border effects in agricultural land markets” 2018
Finanzkompass, Innovationspreis des Finanzplatz Hamburg e.V., for an outstanding dissertation 2013 (2^nd place)

Biography

2024

University of Tübingen

Senior Researcher, School of Business and Economics

2023

Jönköping University, Sweden

Associate Professor of Economics, Jönköping International Business School

2021

Jönköping University, Sweden

Assistant Professor of Economics, Jönköping International Business School

2019

University of Kentucky, USA

Visiting Scholar, Department of Agricultural Economics

2016

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Junior Professor of Quantitative Agricultural Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics

2013

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Agricultural Economics

2013

Technische Universität Berlin

PhD in Economics at the Chair of Econometrics and Economic Statistics (Dr. rer. oec.)

2011

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Research associate, Department of Agricultural Economics

2010

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Research associate, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

2009

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Diploma in Mathematics

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

Schmidt, L., Odening, M., Ritter, M. (2024). Do non-farmers pay more for land than farmers? European Review of Agricultural Economics. jbae023. https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbae023
Kionka, M., Musshoff, O., Ritter, M., Uhlemann, J., Odening, M. (2024). Optimal reserve prices for land auctions in Eastern Germany. Applied Economics Letters 31(6). https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2022.2140752
Kionka, M., Odening, M., Plogmann, J., Ritter, M. (2022). Measuring liquidity in agricultural land markets. Agricultural Finance Review 82(4), 690-713. https://doi.org/10.1108/AFR-03-2021-0037
Schmidt, L., Odening, M., Schlanstein, J., Ritter, M. (2022). Exploring the weather-yield nexus with artificial neural networks. Agricultural Systems 196:103345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103345
Ritter, M., Djabarian, Y., Grosse, M., Holm-Mueller, K., Leonhardt, H., Uhlemann, J. (2022). Digitale Lehre – was bleibt? Die Lehren aus den Digitalsemestern für die Hochschullehre in den Wirtschafts und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus [Digital Teaching - what remains? The Lessons from the Digital Semesters for University Teaching in the Economic and Social Sciences of Agriculture]. Berichte über Landwirtschaft, 100(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.12767/buel.v100i1.402
Plogmann, J., Mußhoff, O., Odening, M., Ritter, M. (2022). Farmland sales under returns and price uncertainty. Economic Modelling 117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.106044.
Plogmann, J., Mußhoff, O., Odening, M., Ritter, M. (2022). Farm growth and land concentration. Land Use Policy 115:106036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106036.
Balmann, A., Graubner, M., Hüttel, S., Müller, D., Odening, M., Plogmann, J. M., Ritter, M., Seifert, S. (2021): Market Power in Agricultural Land Markets: Concepts and Empirical Challenges. German Journal of Agricultural Economics 70(4). https://doi.org/10.30430/gjae.2021.0117.
Ritter, M., Ott, D.V.M., Paul, F., Haynes, J.-D., Ritter, K. (2021): COVID-19: a simple statistical model for predicting intensive care unit load in exponential phases of the disease. Scientific Reports 11: 5018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83853-2.
Wilke, A., Shen, Z., Ritter, M. (2021): How Much Can Small-Scale Wind Energy Production Contribute to Energy Supply in Cities? A Case Study of Berlin. Energies 14(17), 5523. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14175523.
Wechsung, F., Ritter, M., Wall, G.W. (2021): The upper homeostatic range for the temperature–yield response of irrigated US wheat down revised from a theoretical and experimental perspective. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 307: 108478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108478.
Ritter, M., Hüttel, S., Odening, M., Seifert, S. (2020): Revisiting the relationship between land price and parcel size in agriculture. Land Use Policy 97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104771.
Plogmann, J., Mußhoff, O., Odening, M., Ritter, M. (2020): What Moves the German Land Market? A Decomposition of the Land Rent-Price Ratio. German Journal of Agricultural Economics 69(1): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.30430/69.2020.1.1-18.
Grau, A., Odening, M., Ritter, M. (2020): Land price diffusion across borders – The case of Germany. Applied Economics 52(10): 5446-5463. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2019.1673299.
Helbing, G., Ritter, M. (2020): Improving Wind Turbine Power Curve Monitoring with Standardisation. Renewable Energy 145: 1040-1048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.06.112.
Grau, A., Jasic, S., Ritter, M., Odening, M. (2020): The Impact of Production Intensity on Agricultural Land Prices. Austrian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Rural Studies 29(8). https://doi.org/10.15203/OEGA_29.8
Myrna, O., Odening, M., Ritter, M. (2019): The influence of wind energy and biogas on farmland prices. Land 8(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/land8010019.
Yang, X., Odening, M., Ritter, M. (2019): The Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of Agricultural Land Prices. Land Economics 95(1): 108-123. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.95.1.108.
Helbing, G., Ritter, M. (2018): Deep Learning for fault detection in wind turbines. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 98: 189-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2018.09.012.
Elnaggar, M., Edwan, E., Ritter, M. (2017), Wind Energy Potential of Gaza Using Small Wind Turbines: A Feasibility Study. Energies 10(8), 1229. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en10081229.
Ritter, M., Deckert, L. (2017): Site assessment, turbine selection, and local feed-in tariffs through the wind energy index. Applied Energy 185(2): 1087–1099. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.11.081.
Helbing, G., Shen, Z., Odening, M., Ritter, M. (2017): Estimating location values of agricultural land. German Journal of Agricultural Economics 66(3): 188-201. https://www.gjae-online.de/articles/estimating-location-values-of-agricultural-land/.
Ritter, M., Pieralli, S., Odening, M. (2017): Neighborhood Effects in Wind Farm Performance: A Regression Approach. Energies 2017, 10(3), 365. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en10030365.
Yang, X., Ritter, M., Odening, M. (2017): Testing for Regional Convergence of Agricultural Land Prices. Land Use Policy 64: 64–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.02.030.
Hüttel, S., Ritter, R., Esaulov, V., Odening, M. (2016): Is there a term structure in land lease rates? European Review of Agricultural Economics 43(1): 165-187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbv010.
Shen, Z., Ritter, M. (2016): Forecasting volatility of wind power production. Applied Energy 176: 295-308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.05.071.
Cao, X., Okhrin, O., Odening, M., Ritter, M. (2015): Modelling spatio-temporal variability of temperature. Computational Statistics 30(3):745-766. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00180-015-0561-2.
Pieralli, S., Ritter, M., Odening, M. (2015): Efficiency of Wind Power Production and its Determinants. Energy 90(1): 429-438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2015.07.055.
Ritter, M., Hüttel, S., Walter, M., Odening, M. (2015): Der Einfluss von Windkraftanlagen auf landwirtschaftliche Bodenpreise. Berichte über Landwirtschaft 93(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.12767/buel.v93i3.83.
Ritter, M., Shen, Z., López Cabrera, B., Odening, M., Deckert, L. (2015): Designing an Index for Assessing Wind Energy Potential. Renewable Energy 83: 416-424. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2015.04.038.
Ritter, M., Shen, Z., López Cabrera, B., Odening, M., Deckert, L. (2015): A new approach to assess wind energy potential. Energy Procedia 75: 671–676. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.485.
Ritter, M., Mußhoff, O., Odening, M. (2014): Minimizing Geographical Basis Risk of Weather Derivatives Using A Multi-Site Rainfall Model. Computational Economics 44(1):67–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10614-013-9410-y.
Ritter, M. (2013): Weather forecasting with market prices of weather futures. Journal of Energy Markets 6(4):25-41. http://doi.org/10.21314/JEM.2013.100.
López Cabrera, B., Odening, M., Ritter, M. (2013): Pricing Rainfall Futures at the CME. Journal of Banking and Finance 37:4286-4298. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2013.07.042.
Ritter, M., Mußhoff, O., Odening, M. (2011): Meteorological forecasts and the pricing of temperature futures. The Journal of Derivatives 19(2): 45-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3905/jod.2011.19.2.045.

Book chapter

Härdle, W., Lopez Cabrera and Ritter, M. (2015): Forecast based pricing of weather derivatives. Handbook on The Macroeconomics of Global Warming, Semmler, W. and Bernard, L. (eds), Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199856978. http//dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199856978.013.0018.