Andreas Drichoutis is an Agricultural Economist. He received his undergraduate
diploma in Agricultural Economics in 2002 and a postgraduate degree in Agribusiness
Management (MBA) in 2004 from Agricultural University of Athens. In 2004, after spending
a semester at Texas A&M University, he continued his studies in AUA pursuing a PhD
which he completed in 2008. In the meantime, he fulfilled his military obligations (a
twelve month military service is required for all Greek men). 

In 2009 he was elected Lecturer of Applied Microeconometrics at the Department of
Economics at the University of Ioannina in Greece, where he is currently teaching
Microeconomics I and Econometrics I. 

Dr. Drichoutis is or had been working for several EU and national projects. He has also
worked as a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
His research interests are focused on the economics of nutrition/obesity, on contingent
valuation and experimental auctions methods to elicit consumers' WTP and on applied
demand analysis. 

He has published 20 peer reviewed papers in several scientific journals including
Econometric Reviews, Journal of Economic Psychology, Kyklos, American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Economics Letters,
Bulletin of Economic Research, European Journal of Health Economics, Food Economics,
Agribusiness, European Journal of Marketing, Academy of Marketing Science Review,
Economics Bulletin etc. 

His work has been cited at least 70 times in journals such as Games and Economic
Behavior, Health Economics, Asian Economic Journal, European Review of Agricultural
Economics, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Consumer Behaviour,
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Journal of Agricultural and Resource
Economics, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Food Economics, Agricultural Economics,
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, BMC Public Health, Food Quality and Preference,
Journal of Public Health, Journal of Consumer Policy, Journal of Agricultural & Food
Industrial Organization, International Journal of Consumer Studies etc.

Articles

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Do reference values matter? Some notes and extensions on “Income and Happiness across Europe” (with Rodolfo M. Nayga and Panagiotis Lazaridis), Journal of Economic Psychology (forthcoming) (2010)
 

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Food consumption patterns in Mediterranean adolescents: Are there differences between overweight and normal weight adolescents? (with Yannakoulia Mairy, Brussee E. Sandra, Anastasia Z. Kalea, Nikos Yiannakouris, Antonia-Leda Matalas, and Dorothy J. Klimis-Zacas), Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (forthcoming) (2010)
 

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Marginal changes in random parameters ordered response models with interaction terms (with Rodolfo M. Nayga), Econometric Reviews (forthcoming) (2010)
 

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Season-related variation in dietary recalls used in a paediatric population (with Mary Yannakoulia, Meropi D. Kontogianni, and Flora Magkanari), Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics (forthcoming) (2010)
 

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The role of training in experimental auctions (with Rodolfo M. Nayga and Panagiotis Lazaridis), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (forthcoming) (2010)
 

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Book Chapters

Nutritional Labeling (with Rodolfo M. Nayga and Panagiotis Lazaridis), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy (2010)
 

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Nutritional label users’ ability to perform nutrition tasks as a dietary consumption constraint (with Rodolfo M. Nayga and Panagiotis Lazaridis), Research Topics in Agricultural and Applied Economics (2009)
 

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Food consumption issues in the 21st century (with Panagiotis Lazaridis), The food industry in Europe (2005)
 

Conference Proceedings

Determinants of consumers’ use of nutritional food labels (with Panagiotis Lazaridis and Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr.), Global Business & Economics Review-Anthology 2004 (2004)
 

Determinants of demand for food in Greece (with Panagiotis Lazaridis), Proceedings of the 15th Pan-Hellenic Statistical Conference (in Greek). University of Ioannina. Ioannina 8-11 May (2003)
 

Conference/Seminar Papers

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Body weight outcomes and food expenditures among older Europeans: A simultaneous equation approach (with Panagiotis Lazaridis and Rodolfo M. Nayga), Paper presented in the 113th European's Association of Agricultural Economists seminar, 3-6 September, Chania, Greece (2009)
 

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Can nutritional label use influence body weight outcomes? (with Rodolfo M. Nayga and Panagiotis Lazaridis), Paper presented in the Invited Panel Discussion “Food consumption, health and public policies: American, Asian and European perspective”, The XXVII International conference of Agricultural Economists, 16-22 August, Beijing, China (2009)
 

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Testing for bid affiliation in repeated second-price auctions with posted prices (with Rodolfo M. Nayga, Panagiotis Lazaridis, and Beom Su Park), Paper prepared for the II Workshop on Valuation Methods in Agro-food and Environmental Economics “Experimental Auctions: theoretical background and empirical applications” Barcelona, 2 - 3 July (2009)
 

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On consumers’ valuation of nutritional labels on Food Away From Home products (with Panagiotis Lazaridis and Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr.), Paper presented at the 12th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists, Gent, Belgium, 26-29 August (2008)
 

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Food involvement and food purchasing behaviour (with Panagiotis Lazaridis and Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr.), Paper presented at the 98th EAAE seminar in Chania, Crete - Greece, 29 June-2 July (2006)
 

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Presentations

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Testing for bid affiliation in repeated second-price auctions with posted prices (with Rodolfo M. Nayga, Panagiotis Lazaridis, and Beom Su Park), II workshop on Valuation methods in Agro-food and Environment Economics “Experimental auctions: Theoretical background and empirical applications”, Barcelona, 2-3 July (2009)
 

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Body weight outcomes and food expenditures among older Europeans: A simultaneous equation approach (with Panagiotis Lazaridis and Rodolfo M. Nayga), 113th EAAE seminar “A resilient European food industry and food chain in a challenging world”, Chania, Greece, 3-6 September (2009)
 

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Nutritional label use, body weight outcomes and self selectivity: A propensity score matching approach (with Rodolfo M. Nayga and Panagiotis Lazaridis), The XXVII International conference of Agricultural Economists, 16-22 August, Beijing, China (2009)
 

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Consumer behaviour and nutrition information: Theoretical model and empirical application on food labels (in Greek), PhD thesis defence, Agricultural University of Athens (2008)
 

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Obesity in Europe (with Panagiotis Lazaridis), Food Safety, Nutrition and Health: A transatlantic partnership, Texas A&M University (2008)
 

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Other

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Consumer behaviour and nutrition information: Theoretical model and empirical application on food labels (PhD thesis, in Greek) (2008)
 

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Together...we compete... (in Greek) (with Triantafillia Giotopoulou, Vassilis Karalis, and Lykouropoulou Eirini) (2005)
 

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Determinants of consumers’ use of nutritional food labels (Master thesis, in Greek) (2004)
 

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Determinants of demand for food in Greece (Undergraduate thesis, in Greek) (2002)