Katarina Labajova is a PhD-student at the department of Economics, specializing in studies of Business Administration.

Research area

Katarina is interested in behavioral and experimental economics. Her upcoming thesis is also going to be oriented on the efficiency of pork production in Sweden. She focused her previous work on market research, consumer preferences and positioning.

Teaching

Katarina is teaching Mathematic seminar for the undergraduate course “Applied economics in business” - “Tillämpad ekonomi i företag”. She also taught laboratory of Farm management and accounting at the University of Puerto Rico.

Selected publications

Comas Pagan, M. and Labajova, K. (2005). Positioning of locally grown vs. imported agricultural products. Artículo periódico. Agrotemas. Arecibo, PR.

Labajova, K. and Gonzalez, J. (2004). Positioning of locally grown and imported agricultural products: study of consumers of chicken, eggs and pork in Mayagüez region, Puerto Rico. Memorias Reunion Científica Annual, SOPCA

Master theses:

Labajova, K. and Gonzalez, J. (2004). Market research on positioning of locally grown and imported agricultural products. University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.

Labajova, K. and Prochazka, J. (2001). Market research for launching a selected product. University of Matej Bel, Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic

Miscellaneous

Katarina finished her master studies in Economics and Business Management in Slovak Republic and obtained a Master of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Puerto Rico.  Prior to her PhD position at SLU she worked as a Quality Assurance Supervisor at the high care food and agricultural products company in Delaware, USA.