Astrid Zabel

School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences

Title: Performance payments on Swiss alpine pastures
Place: S307, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

Please observe the time!

Michael Hoel

University of Oslo, Department of Economics

Title: The Rise and Fall of Bioenergy
Place: S210, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

Rob Hart

SLU, Uppsala

Title: The Rise and Fall of Polluting Emissions
Place: S307, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

Seminar together with the Department of Economics.

Hélène Ollivier

Paris School of Economics

Title: Cleaner Firms or Cleaner Products? How Product Mix Shape Emission Intensity from Manufacturing
Place: S307, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

Abstract: We explore the contribution of product mix in determining firm and aggregate emission intensity. First, using detailed firm-product emission intensity data from India, we find that more efficient firms are less emission intensive, and that products with the largest sales tend to be cleaner than other products within the firm. We also find that emission intensity in India dropped significantly between 1990-2010 through reallocations across firms, while product-mix played a counteracting role in increasing firm emission intensity.
Next, we develop a multi-product multi-factor model with heterogeneous firms, variable markups, and monopolistic competition in which each product has a specific emission intensity.
We find that pro-competitive market developments lead to an improvement in the aggregate emission intensity - through reallocations across firms - even though firms can become dirtier or cleaner through product mix. This theoretical result fits particularly well the empirical facts.

Jens Abildtrup

LEF/INRA, Nancy

Title: French Forest Owners’ Stated Preferences for Ash-recycling – A Discrete Choice Experiment
Place: S309, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

Marc Willinger

University of Montpellier, France

Place: S304, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University
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Sonja Peterson

IFW, Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany

Place: S307, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

Mario Blázquez de Paz

Institutet för näringslivsforskning (Research Institute of Industrial Economics)

Place: S307, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

Petros Sekeris

Montpellier Business School

Place: S307, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

Moriah Bostian

Lewis & Clark College, Portland, USA

Place: S307, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

Patrik Thollander

Linköping University

Place: S309, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

Prices and the Renewable Energy Sector

Evangelos Kyritsis

NHH, Norwegian School of Economics

Place: S201, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

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Abstract: Energy security, climate change, and growing energy demand issues are moving up on the global political agenda, and contribute to the rapid growth of the renewable energy sector. In this paper we investigate the effects of oil price shocks, and also of uncertainty about oil prices, on the stock returns of clean energy and technology companies. In doing so, we use monthly data that span the period from May 1983 to December 2016, and a bivariate structural VAR model that is modified to accommodate GARCH-in-mean errors, and it is used to generate impulse response functions. Moreover, we examine the asymmetry of stock responses to oil price shocks and compare them accounting for oil price uncertainty, while effects of oil price shocks of different magnitude are also investigated. Our evidence indicates that oil price uncertainty has no statistically significant effect on stock returns, and that the relationship between oil prices and stock returns is symmetric. Our results are robust to alternative model specifications and stock prices of clean energy companies.

Extracting information or resource? The Hotelling rule revisited under asymmetric information

Francesco Ricci

ART-DEV Laboratory – University of Montpellier, France

Place: S307, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

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Investment under Vertical Relations and Agency Conflicts: The Merits of Supply Chain Transparency

Dimitrios Zormpas

University of Padova, Italy

Place: S307, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

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Brazilian Biomass and the Atlantic Deforestation in the South Region

Dr. Álvaro Boson de Castro Faria

Federal Technological University of Paraná, Brazil

Place: Kantarellen, in the corridor of the Department of Forest Economics, SLU 

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Evaluation of Cost Efficiency in Biodiversity Restoration Projects at Hydropower Plants in Sweden: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Wondmagegn Tafesse Tirkaso

Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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Nudging with Heterogeneity in Terms of Environmental
Sensitivity: a Public Goods Experiment in Networks

Benjamin Ouvrard

LEF: Laboratoire d'Economie Forestière, Nancy

Place: S307, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

Green Accounting for Development

Sofia Ahlroth

Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services (Waves), World Bank

Place: S307, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

Corporate Social Responsibility Behaviors of Forest Companies in China.

Yanli Li

Guest Researcher at SLU

Place: S309, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science Building), Umeå University

Trust and Public Support for Environmental Protection: Evidence from International Surveys and Survey Experiments

Malcolm Fairbrother

Department of Sociology, Umeå University

Place: Årsringen, SLU (on the same floor as the campus entrance, corridor on the left)