Ms Hristina Manolova 

 

E-mail Tel	Hristina.Manolova@afbini.gov.uk +44 (0) 2890 255209
Research Group	Farm and Household Economics
Research Interests	Policy analysis and evaluation Behavioural economics Education economics

Biography

Hristina has a B.A. degree in Economics and Information Systems from the American University in Bulgaria and a masters (M.S.) in Economics from Mannheim University, Germany.  Her master’s thesis empirically evaluated the performance of Bulgaria’s currency board system and compared monetary regimes. She joined AFBI at the beginning of 2020 as an Agricultural Economist within the Farm and Household economics team and she is currently working across a range of projects, including education and training, farm safety and policy evaluation.

Selected Publications

Manolova, H., Jack, C.. Angioloni, S., & Ashfield, A. (2023) Farm Safety: A Study of Young Farmers’ Awareness, Attitudes and Behaviors, Journal of Agromedicine, 28:3, 576 586, DOI: 10.1080/1059924X.2023.2180124

Manolova, H., & Vasilev, A. (2017). Wage Dynamics in Bulgaria: Co-movement and Causality. South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, 17, 91-127.

Current Projects

• Project18/1/19 - Impact of RDP: Evaluation of the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020, Farm Business Improvement Scheme – Longitudinal Study (PMB1 RDP Study 1)
• Whole Farm Systems Modelling