FOI seminars 2012
The FOI seminar plan of the spring 2012
(Read the abstracts of past seminars: see below)
All seminars take place Fridays at 12.30-13.30 in the B.S. Jørgensen seminar room at FOI, Building A, 1st floor, unless otherwise stated
Thursday 31 May (Note the new date!)
Alberto Franco (University of Hull):
Experiences in the application of the Facilitated Modelling approach
(contact: )
Friday 8 June
Henrik Hansen (FOI):
Another Perspective on Gender Specific Access to Credit in Africa
(with John Rand)
Friday 15 June
Frank A. Wolak (Professor of Economics at Stanford University):
to be announced
(contact: )
Friday 22 June
Henrik Hansen (FOI):
A Comparison of Model-based and Design-based Impact Evaluations of Interventions in Developing Countries
(with Ninja Ritter Klejnstrup and Ole Winckler Andersen)
Friday 29 June
Elena Tavella (FOI):
Exploring dialogue in problem structuring workshops
Past seminars 2012
Friday 11 May
Laura Mørch Andersen (FOI):
What is it Consumers really want, and how can their preferences be influenced? The Case of fat in Milk
(with Sinne Smed)
Friday 27 April
Jonas Nordström (FOI):
Strategic self-ignorance and consumption of unhealthy food
(with Linda Thunström, Jason F. Shogren and Mariah Ehmke)
Friday 20 April
Niels Erik Holm Nannerup (University of Southern Denmark):
House prices and land regulation in the Copenhagen area
(with Jørgen Lauridsen and Morten Skak)
(contact: )
Thursday 19 April
Can Liu (Professor and the Chief of Policy Division, Economics and Development Research Centre, State Forestry Administration of China):
The effect of Chinese priority forestry programs on food production
(contact: )
Friday 30 March
Morten Lau (Durham University):
Discounting Behavior: A Reconsideration
(with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison and E. Elisabet Rutström)
(contact: )
Friday 23 March
Toke Fosgaard and Lars Gårn Hansen (FOI):
Social Norm Conformity and Cheating Behavior
(with Francesca Gino and Marco Piovesan)
Wednesday 7 March
Alan Matthews (Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy,Trinity College Dublin):
Greening the CAP – what way forward?
(contact: )
Wednesday 29 February
Eirik Amundsen (FOI):
The new report from The Environmental Economic Council
Friday 24 February
Ola Flåten (University of Tromsø):
Open-access Fishing Rent and Efficiency - The Case of Gillnet Vessels in Nha Trang, Vietnam
(contact: )
Friday 10 FebruaryMarco Piovesan (Harvard Business School):
Pay Dispersion and Work Performance
(with Alessandro Bucciol)
(contact: )
Friday 3 February
Abdulfatah Sheikhbihi Adam (FOI):
The effect of a size differentiated tax on soft drinks
(with Sinne Smed)
Friday 27 January
Tomasz Gerard Czekaj (FOI):
Using Non-parametric Methods in Econometric Production Analysis: An Application to Polish Family Farms
(with Arne Henningsen)
Friday 20 January
Frank Jensen (FOI):
The importance of owner/worker fine liability for compliance with resources harvesting regulations
(with Lars Gårn Hansen and Linda Nøstbakken)
Friday 13 January
Sinne Smed (FOI): Seasonal and educational patterns in unhealthy eating - Coping through New Year’s resolutions?
Friday 6 January
Dale Squires (USA National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration):
Firm Behavior under Quantity Controls: The Theory of Virtual Quantities
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Friday 9 December
Mengistu Assefa (FOI):
Biofuels Development in Ethiopia
Thursday 8 December
Ole Dahl (University of Southern Denmark):
Walking the talk: the need for a trial registry for development interventions
Friday 2 December
Danny Campbell (Queen's University Belfast):
The geography of latent classes: the role of distance decay
Contact: )
Friday 25 November
Søren Leth-Petersen (Department of Economics, Uni of Copenhagen):
(with Claus Thustrup Kreiner and David Dreyer Lassen)
Consumer Responses to Fiscal Stimulus Policy:
Household Interest Rates and the Propensity to Consume
Friday 18 November
Martin Browning (Distinguished Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford):
Mixing messages: health news and consumer reactions
(This was part of the AECON PhD school status seminar day)
Friday 11 November
Lars Gårn Hansen and Toke Fosgaard (FOI):
Disentangling framing effects in a public good game
(with Erik Wengström)
Friday 4 November
Gijs Stevers (FOI):
Applied Economic Valuation: A cost-benefit analysis of the Maersk Line fuel-switch programme in the port of Singapore.
Wednesday 26 October
Marco Piovesan (Harvard Business School; visiting FOI 15 - 31 Oct):
Honesty, Hypocrisy and the Context
(with Daniel Houser, John List, Anya Savikhin and Joachim Winte)
(Contact: )
Friday 7 October
Signe Hald Andersen (Rockwool Research Unit):
Serving time or serving the community? Exploiting a policy reform to assess the causal effect of community service
Friday 30 September
Jørgen Dejgård Jensen (FOI):
Consumer incentives to comply with nutritional recommendations – an economic approach
Friday 16 September
Rainer Hass (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna; visiting FOI 13-16 Sep):
From hunger to obesity: Challenges for a global (sustainable) food system
(Contact: )
Friday 9 September
Søren Bøye Olsen (FOI):
Metastudy investigating respondent specific as well as survey specific determinants of protest behaviour in stated preference surveys
Friday 2 September
Toke Fosgaard (FOI):
Neural Bases of Framing Effects and Strategic Decisions in Social Dilemmas
(with Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, Julian Macoveanu, Martin Skov)
Wednesday 31 August
Danny Campbell (Queen's University Belfast; visiting FOI 8 Aug - 16 Sep):
Choosing `buy none' in food choice analysis: the role of utility balance
(with Edel Doherty and Vikki O'Neill)
(Contact: )
Friday 17 June
Mikkel Bojesen (FOI):
Forecasting of slurry resource availability and structural changes in Danish agriculture
Friday 10 June
Rachel Brulé (Stanford University / Berghof Conflict Resolution Centre, Berlin):
When Reform Works: A Theory of Legal Impact
Friday 27 May
Wusheng Yu (FOI) and Hans Jensen (FOI):
Trade policy responses to food price rises and implications for existing domestic support measures: The case of China in 2008
Friday 13 May
Kenneth Baltzer (FOI):
Standards vs. labels with imperfect competition and asymmetric information
Friday 6 May
Frank Jensen (FOI):
Testing for Cross-Subsidisation in the Combined Heat and Power Generation Sector: A Comparison of Three Tests
(with Eirik S. Amundsen and Per Andersen)
Friday 29 April
Vibeke Hansen Kjærbye (NIRAS/RUC):
The effect of building regulations on energy consumption in single-family houses in Denmark
(with Anders E. Larsen og Mikael Togeby; contact: )
Friday 15 April
Thomas Bue Bjørner and Janne Mackenhauer (DØRS):
Do Spillover effects from energy research justify high subsidies to private energy research?
Friday 8 April
Brian Jacobsen (FOI):
Reducing ammonia emissions from agriculture using the BATNEEC approach in Denmark
Friday 1 April
Alessandro Martinello (SFI –The Danish National Centre for Social Research):
Consumption Retirement Puzzle in Europe; Seep through the Selection
Friday 25 March
Frank Jensen (FOI):
Competition between aquaculture and fisheries: Impacts on aquaculture of introducing optimal fisheries management
(with Max Nielsen and Rasmus Nielsen)
Friday 18 March
Suzanne E. Vedel (SL):
Contracts for environmental goods and the role of monitoring for landowners' willingness to accept
Wednesday 16 March
Sevil Acar Ayetkin (Marmara University Istanbul and CERE-Umeå):
Natural Resource Abundance, Sustainability and Human Development
(contact: )
Friday 11 March
Danish Economic Councils
will present the chapter in their forthcoming report on 'traffic noise'
Friday 4 March
Elena Tavella (FOI):
Application of Soft Systems Methodology to local/regional organic food supply chain design and management
(with Carsten Nico Hjortsø)
Friday 11 February
Karsten Klint Jensen (FOI):
Valuing Life and the Principle of Personal Good
Friday 4 February
Lars Otto (FOI):
Benchmarking with DEA (and SFA): A new software package
Friday 21 January
Lauge Skovgaard Poulsen (London School of Economics – International Relations Department):
A BIT of econometrics is not enough: Bilateral Investment Treaties and FDI flows
Friday 14 January
Ole Bonnichsen (FOI):
Renewable energy, CO2 reduction and choice experiments
(PhD Mid-term seminar)
Friday 7 January
Lars Gårn Hansen (FOI):
The effect on electricity consumption of providing autopoweroff plugs to different types of households - A field experiment
(with Carsten Lynge Jensen, Troels Fjordbak, Erik Gudbjerg)
Geir Tveit, - last update:11 May 2012