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MattiasFukoka

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Umeå University is dedicated to providing creative environments for learning and work. We offer a wide variety of courses and programs, world leading research, and excellent innovation and collaboration opportunities. More than 4 300 employees and more than 30 000 students have already chosen Umeå University. We welcome your application!

The Center for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE) has about 30 affiliated researchers and doctoral students. CERE is hosted by the Department of Economics at Umeå University, and is a joint initiative between the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Umeå University. Inaugurated in 2009, CERE is now a well-established center with more than ten nationalities represented and a vigorous research exchange program. For more information about CERE and the host departments, visit the websites www.cere.se, www.econ.umu.se, http://www.slu.se/skogsekonomi.

This is a full time scholarship for a period of two years, beginning (tentatively) in autumn 2017 (or later, upon agreement). The postdoctoral researcher will conduct at least 80% research at the Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE), Umeå University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). The successful applicant is expected to conduct applied/empirical research in energy economics, particularly the economics of electricity.

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Focus on the climate when the national seminar series; Kunskap i samverkan (Knowledge in collaboration) was held in Umeå on June 7th, 2017. CERE’s Kelly de Bruin was one of the speakers.

The minister for Higher Education and Research; Helene Hellmark Knutsson came on a visit to Umeå University with the national seminar series; Kunskap i samverkan (Knowledge in collaboration). Kelly de Bruin gave a talk on her research on IAM models. See her talk; Using Integrated Assessment models to investigate climate change impacts and policie.
Learn more and see all the presentations (only Kellys is in English)

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Umeå is the municipality where the number of people that earn more than one million kronor per year is the highest in the county of Västerbotten. CERE’s Runar Brännlund comments on the statistics saying that they again provide “an image that all of Norrland is a sparsely populated area” in Västerbottens Folkblad on June 4, 2017.

In the municipality of Umeå in 2015, 669 people earned above one million Swedish kronor each year. Equaling 0,6 percent of the municipality population. The municipalities in Västerbotten closes to that percentage reaches 0,2 or 0,1 percent. It is notable that SCB, due to privacy, cannot release information if the number of people falls below four. However, according to Runar these statistics point to the differences as to where the highly productive job opportunities are:

“- The issues show that there are indeed differences in the structure of trade and industry between different places and that it is in the larger cities that the high production jobs are to be found. That is if assuming that that the high productive workplaces pay more than the low productive, he says.”

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Tommy Lundgren is awarded the Nordea Scientific Award for his research within environmental and resource economics. The prize sum is 100 000 sek.

Andrius Kazukauskas is awarded the USBE Scientific Award.

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A new course offering exceeded expectations even before the first day of class. So far, 54 applications have been received for Introduction to Experimental Methods in Economics and Related Social Sciences, and they are still coming. Dr. Klarizze Puzon, course instructor and post doc at SLU forest economics and CERE, was expecting around five applicants, but has scheduled another course for 2018 to handle excess demand.

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Publications

Broberg, T. & Egüez, A. Blame it on the Owner – Ownership and Energy Performance of Multidwelling Buildings. pdfDownload
Ratti, M.L. The Economics of Natural Disasters: an Overview of the Current Research Issues and Methods. pdfDownload
Krishnamurthy, C.K. Managing Water: Rights, Markets, and Welfare. pdfDownload
Amjadi, G., Lundgren, T., Persson, L. & Zhang, S. The Rebound Effect in Swedish Heavy Industry. pdfRead