Mihaly Himics

CAPRI network member since 2009

Affiliation

Institute for Prospective Technological Studies

European Commission, Joint Research Centre

(partly) University Bonn, Insititute for Food and Resource Economics

Contact

Telephone: ++34 95 44 88434

E-mail:

Current responsibilities

• Issues related to the calibration of the market module

Major Contributions to CAPRI

• Development of the additional geographical layer of policy blocks in the market module
• Non-homothetic import demand system in the market model
• Welfare consistent tariff aggregation module

Major CAPRI applications

• Scenarios covering uncertainties in the "Prospects for Agricultural Markets and Income" (DG Agri baseline, years 2010, 2011)
• EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement, Impact Assessment
• Climate change scenarios
• Expiry of the sugar quota system in the EU

CAPRI projects

• Contributor and (for a short term) project manager at JRC-IPTS CAPRI-RD (2009-2013)

CAPRI related publications, reports and conference contributions

Mihaly Himics, Marco Artavia, Sophie Helaine (2014) Calibrating the CAPRI and ESIM models to the mid-term commodity market outlook of the European Commission JRC Technical Reports link

Ciscar JC, Feyen L, Soria A, Lavalle C, Raes F, Perry M, Nemry F, Demirel H, Rozsai M, Dosio A, Donatelli M, Srivastava A, Fumagalli D, Niemeyer S, Shrestha S, Ciaian P, Himics M, Van Doorslaer B, Barrios S, Ibanez N, Forzieri G, Rojas R, Bianchi A, Dowling P, Camia A, Liberta G, San Miguel J, de Rigo D, Caudullo G, Barredo J-I, Paci D, Pycroft J, Saveyn B, Van Regemorter D, Revesz T, Vandyck T, Vrontisi Z, Baranzelli C, Vandecasteele I, Batista e Silva F, Ibarreta D (2014) Climate Impacts in Europe. The JRC PESETA II project JRC Scientific and Policy Reports link

Burrell A., Himics M., Van Doorslaer B., Ciaian P., Shrestha S. (2014) EU sugar policy: A sweet transition after 2015? JRC Scientific and Policy Reports link

Shrestha S., Ciaian P., Himics M., Van Doorslaer B. (2013) Impacts of climate change on EU agriculture, Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics 16(2): 24-39 link to paper and some reflections

A. Burrell, E. Ferrari, A. Gonzalez Mellado, M. Himics, J. Michalek, S. Shrestha and B. Van Doorslaer (2011) Potential EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement: Impact Assessment. JRC Reference Reports. link

Zebedee Nii-Naate (ed.) (2011) Prospects for Agricultural Markets and Income in the EU. Background informatin on the baseline construction process and uncertainty analysis. JRC Technical Reports link

European Commission (contributing author) (2011) PROSPECTS FOR AGRICULTURAL MARKETS AND INCOME IN THE EU 2011-2020 link

European Commission (contributing author) (2010) PROSPECTS FOR AGRICULTURAL MARKETS AND INCOME IN THE EU 2010-2020 link

Himics M., Britz W. (2013) Trade Diversion Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements Under Tariff Rate Quota Regimes. European Association of Agricultural Economists, 135th Seminar, August 28-30, 2013, Belgrade, Serbia (contributed paper) link

Himics M., Van Doorslaer B., Ciaian P., Shrestha S. (2012) Increasing volatility of input costs in the EU agriculture. Conference Paper, European Association of Agricultural Economists, 123rd Seminar, February 23-24, 2012, Dublin Ireland link

Shrestha S., Himics M., Van Doorslaer B., Ciaian P. (2012) EU wide regional impacts of climate change. Conference Paper, European Association of Agricultural Economists, 123rd Seminar, February 23-24, 2012, Dublin Ireland link