Tharshini Thangavelu defended her thesis “Essays on Malnutrition, Savings and Preferences” on September 12th, 2018. Her thesis touches three different topics in economics, namely preferences, savings and malnutrition. Jinggang Guo defended his thesis “Economics Timber Production and Climate Change mitigation” on October 12th, 2018.
This is good news for the future of our planet, says Kelly de Bruin, associated member of CERE and Research Officer at The Economic and Social Research Institute on Ireland. The IPCC 1.5 degrees report, released a few days ago, warns for deep and immediate climate change action to limit severe climate impacts which makes models that describes the global interplay between the economy and the climate especially important.
Bland andra CERE:s Runar Brännlund berättar i P1 morgon den 8 oktober (2018) om sin favoritkandidat till Riksbankens pris i ekonomisk vetenskap i Alfred Nobels minne, Martin Weitzman. Brännlund lyfter Weitzmans arbete kring hur miljöförstörande verksamheter kan styras politiskt och kritiken mot BNP som endast kan mäta marknadspriser, något som miljövaror sällan har.