A course+workshop on Behavioral Environmental Economics
Given in 3-6 June 2019. Applications are now open.
The Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics is organizing a course on behavioural environmental economics.
Last year we received a prize for the best PhD course given by our Faculty, this motivated us to give the course again.
Lecture period: June 3, 2019 - June 6, 2019
Deadline for application: 15 March, 2019.
Place: SLU Ultuna Campus, Uppsala, Sweden.
Level: PhD and Masters
-For more detailed and up-to-date information.
-Or visit the official course page on university's website:
-We also have a group called BEEn (Behavioural Environmental Economics Network) which aims to bring scholars together working on issues related to environmental and resource economics from a behavioural perspective. BEEn collects and disseminate information about related conferences, research and announcements. Learn more about the group and become a member.
Deadline for application: 15 March, 2019.
Place: SLU Ultuna Campus, Uppsala, Sweden.
Level: PhD and Masters
-For more detailed and up-to-date information.
-Or visit the official course page on university's website:
-We also have a group called BEEn (Behavioural Environmental Economics Network) which aims to bring scholars together working on issues related to environmental and resource economics from a behavioural perspective. BEEn collects and disseminate information about related conferences, research and announcements. Learn more about the group and become a member.
BNP inget bra mått på utveckling eller välfärd
Befolkningens välbefinnande måste adresseras när landets utveckling analyseras menar Nya Zeelands premiärminister Jacinda Ardern och introducerar ett nytt sätt att mäta landets välstånd. DN frågade tre nationalekonomer, däribland CERE:s Runar Brännlund om Nya Zeelands beslut.”– Det är väl ingen som hävdar att BNP är ett bra mått på utveckling eller välfärd, det är inte ett bra mått. Men det är inte antingen eller utan alla måtten behövs. BNP fyller sin funktion, säger Runar Brännlund som är professor i nationalekonomi vid Umeå universitet.”
”– Nya Zeelands lösning verkar likna det vi kallar för genuint sparande eller genuina investeringar där man tittar på hur alla kapitalstockar i ett samhälle förändras så som naturkapital, humankapital och socialt kapital, säger Runar Brännlund.”
Läs hela artikeln ”Experter gör tummen upp för Nya Zeelands välmående-budget”, publicerad på DN 21 februari 2019.
Regeringen satsar på grön skatteväxling
CERE:s Runar Brännlund diskuterar den gröna skatteväxlingen med klimat- och miljöministern Isabella Lövin.Regeringen vill börja beskatta engångsartiklar, plastartiklar, kemikalier i textilier och skor, avfall och förbränning. De vill även se över de subventioner som går till företag som använder sig av fossila bränslen. Runar Brännlund manar till lugn och vill att skatteväxlingen hellre sker på ett globalt plan så att Sverige inte straffar ut sig själva medan utsläppen bara förflyttas till andra länder.
(Runar kommer in vid 5.10).
Wind for nothing and electricity for free?
CERE’s Andrius Kazukauskas provides us with an article of Christmas past from a Swedish electricity point of view. Who does pay for our colorful Christmas lighting? Happy Holiday’s!I have the brightest memories about Christmas time from my childhood. For me Christmas Eve was a very special day. At that time Christmas was associated with miracles and things for free, such as Christmas presents delivered by a mystical Santa Claus. This was a time for candies, oranges, nuts and other things. Luckily for me, Santa Claus was not associated with any budget constraints.
On one such night, the midnight of 25th of December 2015 to be precise, a miraculous gift was given to all of us living in Sweden. In one hour that night, electricity was sold for almost 0 €/MWh on the Nordpool day-ahead market (electricity wholesale market). Electricity for free! This is the lowest price on record during the last five years (maybe ever, I did not check the older data). As I am not a naïve child anymore, I wonder where this “present” came from. And a very low price of electricity around Christmas time is not a random coincidence since the electricity price tend to be low the last week of the year. Figure 1 depicts the average wholesale prices of electricity from week 48 till week 9 (winter season). Thus, a relevant question arises: who pays for our colorful Christmas lighting decorations? (click on headline to read more)