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Research interests Environmental economics
Natural resource economics
Development economics
Education and qualifications BSc, physics, Umeå University, 1993
MSc, physics, University of Copenhagen, 1998
PhD, economics, Umeå University, 2003
Associate professor, economics, Umeå University, 2005
Teaching this semester
Natural resource management, January - March
Advanced environmental economics, February
Economic policy and individual behaviour, February
Environmental and natural resource economics, April - May
Environmental economics and applications, April - May
Awards and distinctions
The Wallander scholarship, the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, 2004 – 2006
The Arnberg award, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2005
The Award for a Young Social Scientist at Umeå University, Royal Skytteanum Society, 2006
International Fellow, the International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006 – 2010
Publications
PhD thesis: Stage, J. (2003): Mixing oil and water. Studies of the Namibian economy. Umeå Economic Studies 611
Articles in peer review journals: Stage, J. (2001): Decomposition of Namibian energy intensity, South African Journal of Economics 69 (4): 698 - 707
Stage, J. and Fleermuys, F. (2001): Energy use in the Namibian economy from 1995 to 1998, Development Southern Africa 18 (4): 423 - 441
Stage, J. (2002): Structural shifts in Namibian energy use: An input-output approach, South African Journal of Economics 70 (6): 1103 - 1125
Humavindu, M. N. and Stage, J. (2003): Hedonic pricing in Windhoek townships, Environment and Development Economics 8 (2): 391 - 404
Nilsson, A., Sahlén, L. and Stage, J. (2003): A net back valuation of irrigation water in the Hardap region in Namibia, Agrekon 42 (3): 252 - 270
Stage, J. and Williams, R. (2003): Implicit water pricing in Namibian farmland markets, Development Southern Africa 20 (5): 633 - 645
Ågren, J., Nyyssölä, C. and Stage, J. (2003): The potential for monopoly rents from Etosha National Park, Namibia, South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences 6 (3): 459 - 472
Andersson, A., Holmgren, E. and Stage, J. (2004): The HIPC initiative and free trade in tobacco – a comparison of effects on the Malawi economy using a CGE model, Journal of Development Alternatives and Area Studies 23 (3 - 4): 66 - 83
Gustafsson, M. and Stage, J. (2004): Betalningsviljan för renare havsvatten runt Åland [The willingness to pay for cleaner seawater around the Åland archipelago], Ekonomiska Samfundets Tidskrift 57 (3): 109 - 116
Andersson, P., Croné, S., Stage, J. and Stage, J. (2005): Potential monopoly rents from international wildlife tourism: An example from Uganda’s gorilla tourism, Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review 21 (1): 1 - 18
Stage, J. and Kirchner, C. H. (2005): An economic comparison of the commercial and recreational line fisheries in Namibia, African Journal of Marine Science 27 (3): 577 - 584. Working paper version here
Dietzenbacher, E. and Stage, J. (2006): Mixing oil and water? Using hybrid input-output tables in a structural decomposition analysis, Economic Systems Research 18 (1): 85 - 95
Luyanga, S., Miller, R. and Stage, J. (2006): Index number analysis of Namibian water intensity, Ecological Economics 57 (3): 374 - 381
Selander, C., Stage, J., Stage, J. and Öberg, J. (2006): The impacts of microcredits - a case study from Kenyan agriculture, Journal of Development Alternatives and Area Studies 25 (1 - 2): 5 - 20
Stage, J. (2006): Optimal harvesting in an age-class model with age-specific mortalities, Natural Resource Modeling 19 (4): 609 – 632
Samuelsson, E. and Stage, J. (2007): The size and distribution of the economic impacts of Namibian hunting tourism, South African Journal of Wildlife Research 37 (1): 41 - 52
Reid, H., Sahlén, L., Stage, J. and MacGregor, J. (2008): Climate change impacts on Namibia’s natural resources and economy, Climate Policy 8 (5): 452 - 466. Working paper version here
Stage, J. (2010): Economic valuation of climate change adaptation in developing countries, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1185: 150 - 163
Andersson, C., Mekonnen, A. and Stage, J. (2010): Impacts of the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia on livestock and tree holdings of rural households, forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics. Working paper version here
Stage, J., Stage, J. and McGranahan, G. (2010): Is urbanization contributing to higher food prices?, forthcoming in Environment and Urbanization. Working paper version here
Shorter contributions to journals: Stage, J. (2008): Speaking up for economic-sciences modelling. Correspondence. Nature 456 (7222): 470
Stage, J. (2009): Rogers, P. R., Jalal, K. F. and Boyd, J. A., An introduction to sustainable development. Book review. European Review of Agricultural Economics 36 (1): 126 - 128
Stage, J. (2010): Gallagher, K. P. (ed.), Handbook on trade and the environment. Book review. Forthcoming in Natural Resources Forum
Book chapters: MacGregor, J. and Stage, J. (2002): Environmental accounting as a tool for policy analysis - examples from Namibia. In G. Milne, red., Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Policy Analysis: Training Manual for the Forum for Economics and the Environment (FEE) 196 – 203. Pretoria: Forum for Economics and the Environment
Andersson, C., Dalin, T., Stage, J. and MacGregor, J. (2006): The socio-economic impacts of opium eradication in South East Asia. In Impact Assessment of Crop Eradication in Afghanistan and Lessons Learned from Latin America and South East Asia. London: Senlis Council
Stage, J. (2006): Viltvård och fattigdomsbekämpning i ett u-land – (o)förenliga mål? [Wildlife conservation and poverty reduction in a developing country - (in)compatible goals?] In R. Jacobsson, ed., Thule 2007 75 - 84. Umeå: Royal Skytteanum Society
Contributions to government commissions: Andersson, G., Westin, L., Pettersson, T. and Stage, J. (1997): SOU 1997:94 Konkurrensneutralt transportbidrag [Government Commission 1997:94 – A transport subsidy that does not distort competition]. Stockholm: Fritzes Förlag
Stage, J. (2001): Världsbankens erfarenheter av anpassningslån – en sammanfattning av rapporten “Adjustment Lending Retrospective” [The World Bank’s experiences with adjustment lending – a summary of the report “Adjustment Lending Retrospective”], report to the Globkom commission (SOU 2001:96)
Stage, J. (2001): Från medel till mål i utvecklingspolitiken – en sammanfattning av rapporten “More Instruments and Broader Goals: Moving toward the Post-Washington Consensus” [From means to ends in development policy – a summary of the report “More Instruments and Broader Goals: Moving toward the Post-Washington Consensus”], report to the Globkom commission (SOU 2001:96)
Other:
Stage, J. (1999): EMU löser inte arbetslösheten [EMU is no solution to unemployment]. Libertas 1999 (2): 6 - 7
Stage, J. (2000): Green taxes in Namibia. Namibia Economist 2 juni 2000
Stage, J. (2001): Namibia. Tvärdrag 2001 (6): 28 – 29
Stage, J. och Westin, L. (2001): Gröna räkenskaper - exemplet Västerbottens län [Green accounting - the example of Västerbotten county]. In O. Stjernström, ed., Den hållbara regionen 35 - 37. Cerum Working Paper 32:2001
Stage, J. (2004): Är miljön värd något om man är fattig? Miljöekonomi i ett u-land [Is the environment worth anything if you’re poor? Environmental economics in a developing country]. Presentation at the Royal Environmental Seminar arranged by the Umeå School of Environmental Studies on June 5th, 2004. Mimeo
Reid, H., MacGregor, J., Sahlén, L. and Stage, J. (2007): Counting the cost of climate change in Namibia. Sustainable Development Opinion, December 2007. International Institute for Environment and Development
Andersson, C., Holmgren, E., MacGregor, J. and Stage, J. (2008): Giving credit to the microlenders. Formal microlending, credit constraints and adverse selection: a case study. Environmental Economics Programme Discussion Paper 08-02, International Institute for Environment and Development
Backlund, K., Sjögren, T. and Stage, J. (2008): Optimal tax and expenditure policy in the presence of migration – are credit restrictions important? Umeå Economic Studies 749, Department of Economics, Umeå University
Lokina, R., Robinson, E. and Stage, J. (2008): Economics of forest products in Tanzania. In M. Varmola, S. Valkonen and S. Tapaninen (eds.): Research and development for sustainable management of semiarid miombo woodlands in East Africa 87 – 92. Metlan työraportteja / Working Papers of the Finnish Forestry Research Institute 98
Teaching
Classroom teaching: Microeconomics, Umeå University, 1998 (teaching assistant), 1999 (teaching assistant), 2001 (teaching assistant), 2003, 2004
Microeconomic problems and international trade, Umeå University, 1998 (teaching assistant), 1999 (teaching assistant)
Extramural courses in mathematics and statistics for Namibian economists, 1998, 2000, 2001
Natural resource and environmental economics, University of Namibia, 2000
Mathematics for economists, Umeå University, 2000
Guest lectures on environmental and development issues, Umeå University, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Macroeconomics, Umeå University, 2002, 2003
Regional development in South East Asia, Umeå University, 2003
Multiplier analysis, Namibia economic policy research unit, 2004
Health, environment and development economics, Umeå University, 2005, 2006
Dynamics in tropical land use, Umeå Centre for Tropical Research and Education, 2005, 2007
Introduction to environmental economics and policy, University of California - Berkeley, 2006
Developing country microeconomics / Agricultural economics in developing countries, Umeå University, 2006
Developing country macroeconomics, Umeå University, 2007
Economic policy and individual behaviour, University of Gothenburg, 2007, 2008
Guest lectures on environmental issues, University of Gothenburg, 2007, 2008, 2009
Natural resource management, University of Gothenburg, 2008, 2009, and currently
Environmental and natural resource economics, University of Gothenburg, 2008, 2009
Advanced environmental economics, University of Gothenburg, 2009 and currently
Environmental economics and applications, University of Gothenburg, 2009
Supervision: Supervision of bachelor's theses, Umeå University 1999 - 2007 (seven)
Supervision of master's theses, Umeå University 1999 - 2006 (eight), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 2007 (one), University of Gothenburg 2008 (two)
Supervision of PhD thesis, Umeå University (Michael Humavindu, 2008)
Ongoing supervision of PhD students, Umeå University and University of Gothenburg
Other: External examiner, Master of Arts programme in economics, University of Malawi, 2004, 2005
Member of grading committee for Mattias Ankarhem's PhD thesis in economics, Umeå University, May 2005
Faculty opponent for Wisdom Akpalu's PhD thesis in economics, University of Gothenburg, September 2006
Discussant for Mintewab Bezabih's draft PhD thesis in economics, University of Gothenburg, November 2006
Research officer, Environment for Development programme, University of Gothenburg, January 2007 - July 2008
Member of the grading committee for Jerry Blomberg's PhD thesis in economics, Luleå University of Technology, March 2007
Reviewer of Sandra Paulsen's draft PhD thesis in economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, June 2007
Discussant for Anna Bohman's draft PhD thesis in economic history, Umeå University, February 2008
Member of the grading committee for Shahid Ali's PhD thesis in physics, Umeå University, February 2008
Discussant for one of Linda Sahlén's draft PhD thesis chapters in economics, Umeå University, May 2008
Chairman pro tem of the programme committee for the undergraduate programme in environmental social sciences, University of Gothenburg, August 2008 - June 2009
Reviewer of Fredrik Holstein's draft PhD thesis in economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, July 2009
Associate editor of Ambio, January 2007 onwards
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