Welcome to Economics
Economics has approximately 250 students each semester and lecturers with doctoral degrees teaches and pursue research mainly in Labor economis, Public economics, Environmental and Resource economics and Econometrics. Teaching and research at the department also involve researchers at the Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE). __________________________________________________________________
News from the Department
Since January 1, 2012, Economics is part of Umeå School of Business and Economics. The School contains Business Administration, Statistics and from us Economics and Econometrics.
Work to adapt web-pages to the new organization is ongoing but it may take some time to get every subpage refurnished.
Literature in Macroekonomics (Advanced Level)
The literature use on the spring semester course in macroeconomics will be David Romer, "Advanced Macroeconomics" (publiched by McGraw-Hill)
Changes in the Spring 2012 courses
The changes concern the advanced level.
• Microeconomics I will run as planned, starting week 4.
• Microeconomics II will start in week 4 instead of week 9.
• The courses in Macroeconomics will be changed and we will offer a single course in Macroeconomics starting week 9. The course will be suitable for students at both years of the Master’s Program in economics.
• The courses Econometrics II and Math for Economists II will be cancelled.
We are sorry for the late changes.
New Umeå Economic Studies
Lundberg, J: Does academic research affect the local growth pattern?
Empirical evidence based on Swedish data Nr 835
Wikström, M and Wikström, C: University education and income – does prior achievement matter? Nr 834
Aronsson, T and Sjögren, T: Tax Policy and Present-Biased Preferences: Paternalism under International Capital Mobility Nr 833
Lundberg, J: On the de
nition of W in empirical models of yardstick
competition Nr 832
Granlund, D and Yesim Köksal, M: EU Enlargement, Parallel Trade and Price Competition in Pharmaceuticals - What’s to Blame? Derogation or Perception? Nr 831
Löfgren, K-G: On Envelope Theorems in Economics: Inspired by a Revival of a Forgotten Lecture Nr 830
Aronsson, T and Wikström, M: Optimal Tax Progression: Does it Matter if Wage Bargaining is Centralized or Decentralized? Nr 829
Aronsson, T and Johansson-Stenman, O: State-Variable Public Goods When Relative Consumption Matters: A Dynamic Optimal Taxation Approach Nr 828
Hellström, J and Lönnbark, C: Identi
cation of jumps in fi
nancial price series Nr 827
Aronsson, T, Cialani, C and Löfgren, K-G: Genuine Saving and the Social Cost of Taxation Nr 826
