Newsletter from FAME
Newsletter 2/2009 from FAME
Ph.D Course in October ‘Trust and lottery games’
Ph.D. Course on: Trust and lottery games in Esbjerg, Denmark, 12-16 October 2009. Guest lectures: Professor Catherine Eckel, School of economic, political and policy sciences, University of Texas at Dallas and Professor Rick Wilson, Department of political science, Rice University, Houston. The primary aim of the course is on skills training, including experimental design, procedure, and analysis and interpretation of the results of lottery and trust games. Because of its emphasis on methodology, those interested in other games also should be able to benefit from this course. This course will also include a discussion of the design of field experiments, one of the important challenges in experimental economics today. Participants will be given the opportunity to design and implement their own experiments.
Associate Professor Wolfgang Haider is visiting IME/FAME this autumn
Associate Professor Wolfgang Haider from School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University is visiting Department of Environmental and Business Economics (IME) and Centre for Fisheries & Aquaculture Management & Economics (FAME) this autumn. Dr. Haider is interested in social science survey methods, quantitative analysis, and trade-off modelling, as they relate to decision making in resource management. Most of his work focuses on protected areas management, outdoor recreation and recreational fishing, resource based tourism, land use planning, and landscape perception. Many of his research applications include discrete choice experiments, which permit the explicit modelling of trade-offs for a large number of land use or recreation alternatives, including currently non-existing options.
New Ph.D student at FAME - Welcome to Thong Tien Nguyen
Thong Tien Nguyen got his bachelor degree in Fisheries Economics from Nhatrang University, Vietnam and finished his master program of International Fisheries Management from Tromso University, Norway. This PhD project will deal with demand and preference for shellfish with a focus on blue mussels in the EU markets. The project will firstly try to understand the demand structure by investigating how the price of blue mussel is formed and changed. Then, the project will pay more attention on the consumer buying behavior by investigating what are consumer attitude and attitude antecedents toward shellfish consumption, and how consumers in different cultures and markets among the EU perceive the product.
Lars Ravn-Johnson has completed his FAME Ph.D Project:
The dissertation is based on the research question: How can the concepts for models and plans be selected in order to produce a successful plan? A successful plan is interpreted as a plan, when executed in the real world, will fulfill the given objective. This research question is of interest for plans in many different fields; in this dissertation the focus is on natural resource management plans, and the management of marine ecosystems is the applied case.
Presentations from the workshop “Game theoretic applications in fisheries” is now available
June 4 to 6, 2009 FAME arranged a workshop on “Game theoretic applications in fisheries” at University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg. Presentations by the keynote speakers are now available on the FAME homepage. Keynote speakers were Rashid Sumalia, The University of British Columbia, Pedro Pintassilgo from University of Algarve in Portugal and Lone Grønbæk Kronbak, University of Southern Denmark. On the FAME website you also find presentations made by the participants.
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