International Workshop On Natural Resources, Environment, Urban Economics, International Trade and Industrial Organisation

An International Workshop On Natural Resources, Environment, Urban Economics, International Trade and Industrial Organisation Workshop2013 0

 

October 2–5, 2013, in St. Petersburg, Russia

jointly organised by

European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)

and

Higher School of Economics (NRU–HSE)

 

EUSP and HSE co-organise a three-day Workshop in St. Petersburg. 

The purpose of this Workshop is to promote the use of advanced economic analysis (both theoretical and applied) in the fields of natural resources, urban economics, the environment, industrial organisation, and their mutual interactions. 

The objective is to gather a set of high-quality contributions that illustrate how methodological tools and concepts developed in economics can be used to tackle and analyse issues in the aforementioned areas of research. Papers with a main emphasis on new methodological aspects are particularly welcome.

 

Local Administrators

 

Registration and Paper Submission

Papers or extended abstracts must be submitted in PDF via an electronic form here.

 

Workshop Venue

Radisson Royal Hotel, Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg, Russia.

 

Visa Support

A personal invitation letter will be provided to all participants in order to get a visa to Russia.

 

Deadlines (all passed)

Deadline for abstract submission: June 1, 2013.
Acceptance date: June 15, 2013.
Final version of the paper: September 1, 2013.

 

Workshop Programme

Please download it here (.doc).

 

Organising institutions

 

Scientific committee

  • Kirill Borissov, Professor of Economics, European University at St. Petersburg, Co-director of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Economics Studies (CEEES) at EUSP.
  • Thierry Bréchet, Professor of Environmental Economics and Management in the Université catholique de Louvain, Holder of the Chair Lhoist Berghmans in Environmental Economics and Management (2002–2010), Member of the Center for Operations Research & Econometrics (CORE), Member of the Louvain School of Management (LSM), Co-director of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Economics Studies (CEEES) at EUSP.
  • Lucas Bretschger, Professor of Economics / Resource Economics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Director of CER-ETH — Center of Economic Research at ETH Zürich.
  • Sergey Kokovin, Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics at the National Research University — Higher School of Economics (NRU–HSE), St. Petersburg.
  • Katheline Schubert, Associate Chair at the Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Professeur d'économie, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
  • Jacques Thisse, Member of the Center for Operations Research & Econometrics (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Academic Advisor in the Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics at the National Research University — Higher School of Economics (NRU–HSE), St. Petersburg.

 

Keynote speakers

  • Geir Asheim, Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway.
  • Carl Gaigne, Senior Researcher at INRA, Rennes, France.
  • Michael Hoel, Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway.
  • Michel Moreaux, Professor of Economics in the University Toulouse I, Researcher at the Institut d'économie industrielle (IDEI, Toulouse), Member of the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), France.
  • Rick van der Ploeg, Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Research Director of Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre), United Kingdom.
  • Takatoshi Tabuchi, Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics, the University of Tokyo, Japan.
  • Cees Withagen, Professor of Environmental Economics, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, Research Professor in the Department of Energy, Environment and Exhaustible Resources of the Ifo Institute (Munich), Fellow of the CESifo Research Network, Munich, Germany.
  • Yves Zenou, Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Stockholm University, Member of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN, Stockholm, Sweden), the Groupe d'Analyse des Itineraires et Niveaux Salariaux (GAINS, Le Mans, France), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London, UK) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn, Germany). He is also a visiting professor at the University of Southampton, UK.

 

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