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.
New PhD-positions
The Dept. of Economics, together with CERE, offers four new PhD-positions. Read more about the positions and how to apply here.
August re-exams
Sign up online for the re-take exams in August: Online Application
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
Brännäs, K: The Asymmetric Count Data Moving Average Model Nr 841
Holmberg, U: Essays on Credit Markets and Banking Nr 840
Aronsson, T and Persson, L: Decentralized Fiscal Federalism Revisited: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods under Horizontal Leadership Nr 839
Holmberg, U, Sjögren, T and Hellström, J: Comparing Centralized and Decentralized Banking: A Study of the Risk-Return Profiles of Banks Nr 838
Holmberg, U: Error Corrected Disequilibrium Nr 837
Holmberg, U: The Credit Market and the Determinants of Credit
Crunches: An Agent Based Modeling Approach Nr 836
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
