The Economics of Chocolate
Edited by Mara P. Squicciarini and Johan Swinnen
Author Information
Mara P. Squicciarini, Post-Doctoral researcher, LICOS-Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, KU Leuven; Research Fellow, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO),Johan Swinnen, Professor of Economics and Director, LICOS-Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, KU Leuven
Mara P. Squicciarini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University and a research affiliate at the CEPR, the Dondena Research Center, IGIER, and LICOS. She received a BSc in Economics from Bocconi University, a joint MSc in Economics from Bocconi University and Université catholique de Louvain, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Leuven. She has also been a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University and Visiting Researcher at Stanford University and at UCLA. Her research has appeared in journals such as Science, Nature, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics and has been profiled in media outlets such as The Economist, The Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Freakonomics.
Johan Swinnen is Professor of Economics and Director of the LICOS-Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at the University of Leuven; a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University; and President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists and of The Beeronomics Society. He has published widely on global food security, political economy, institutional reform, trade, global value chains, and product standards. His books include Quality Standards, Value Chains and International Development (CUP, 2015), Political Power and Economic Policy (CUP, 2011), The Economics of Beer (OUP, 2011), and From Marx and Mao to the Market (OUP, 2006).
Contributors:
Filip Abraham, KU Leuven
Heike C. Alberts, University of Minnesota
Catherine Araujo Bonjean, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Stephanie Barrientos, University of Manchester
Jean-Francois Brun, University of Auvergne
Sabrina Bruyneel, University of Leuven
Saule Burkitbayeva, University of Leuven
Julie Cidell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William G. Clarence-Smith, SOAS, University of London
Koen Deconinck, University of Leuven
Siegfried Dewitte, University of Leuven
Niels Fold, University of Copenhagen
Ingrid Fromm, Bern University of Applied Sciences
Maria Garrone, University of Leuven
Christopher L. Gilbert, Johns Hopkins University
Monika Hartmann, University of Bonn
Emma Janssen, University of Leuven
Nina Langen, University of Bonn
Anna Laven, Royal Tropical Institute
Fan Li, University of Leuven
Giulia Meloni, University of Leuven
Di Mo, Stanford University and University of Leuven
Stefania Moramarco, Tor Vergata University
Sander Muilerman, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Jeff Neilson, University of Sydney
Loreto Nemi, dietitician and nutritionist
Hannah Pieters, University of Leuven
Eline Poelmans, University of Leuven
Olivia Riera, University of Leuven
Scott Rozelle, Stanford University
Mara P. Squicciarini, University of Leuven
Zuzanna Studnicka, University of Leuven
Johan Swinnen, University of Leuven
Seneshaw Tamru, University of Leuven
Giel Ton, LEI Wageningen UR
Jan Van Hove, University of Leuven
Jana Vandoren, European Investment Bank
Sietze Vellema, Wageningen University
Pieter Vlaeminck, University of Leuven
Liesbet Vranken, University of Leuven
Linxiu Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
