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Ny styrelseordförande för CERE

Lars Hassel, rektor för Handelshögskolan tar över stafettpinnen efter Kenneth Backlund.

Styrelsen mandat är förlängt till och med 31 december 2013.

Läs mer om styrelsens ledamöter här.

Carbon price from the EU ETS is probably too low to induce technological development in the Swedish pulp and paper industry

Findings from the study indicate that climate policy has had a modest impact on technological development in the Swedish pulp and paper industry, with a rather negative impact in cases where the impact is significant.

Paper presented in 18th Annual POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy

Using a rather unexplored dataset on tradable permit transaction, the study found that;

Transaction costs played an important role in the initial years of the EU ETS and were significant in explaining why some ETS firms did not participate in the European emission trading market and chose to trade allowances individually via third parties.
It was also evident that the importance of transaction costs was declining over time.
The study also found evidence that supports the concerns raised by the European Commission that transaction costs might be excessive for smaller participants.

10 different nationalities at CERE course

Meet Murray Collins, an interdisciplinary PhD student from London. His research on deforestation, carbon emissions and biodiversity brought him to Umeå and CERE.

A lot of practical insights at CERE course

Kelly de Bruin, a post doc at CERE, gave a course in applied economic modeling of environmental issues using GAMS during an intensive week, May 27 – June 5.

CERE seminar: Valuing a power plant facility with restricted production capacity using optimal switching

Juan Inda, PhD student at CERE presented his and Chandra Kiran's ongoing work in addressing the issue of valuation of a flexible power plant with fixed production capacity using optimal switching.

Time to register for the Ulvön conference

Don't miss the 20th Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics on 18-20 June, 2013.

New book in Forest and Natural Resource Economics.

Göran Bostedt, researcher at CERE, has written a new textbook on Forest and Natural Resource Economics.

CERE's Ammarnäs Workshop, 25-27 March

As most anthropologists know, when winter turn into spring, the CERE researchers conduct their yearly ritual in the Swedish mountains, called the Ammarnäs Workshop. The most significant feature of this ritual is that, unlike most gatherings within academia, it manly focuses on the work done by the junior members of the tribe – the so called Ph.D and Post-Doc researchers.

The Economics Dude

During the day, Erik Brockwell lives his life as an ordinary CERE researcher, but at night, he turns into the economics dude.

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