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Stefan Borsky
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November 27, 2014
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Vienna | 26 March 1980
Dagmarsvej 11, 6720 Fanø, Denmark
+45 6550 1526 | +43 676 3782007
[email protected]
Education
Nov 2011
Ph.D. in Economics at University of Innsbruck, Austria
Thesis: “Explaining Compliance with International Agreements - An Empirical Analysis”
Advisors: Hannelore Weck-Hannemann and Michael Pfaffermayr
June 2006
Master in Internat. Business Administr. at University of Vienna, Austria
Thesis: “The Value of the National Park Neusiedler See -Seewinkel: An application of the
Contingent Valuation Method”
Advisor: Andreas Novak
Fall 2004
Exchange Semester at University of Applied Life Science, Austria
Several lectures in Environmental and Bio-Resource Management
Work Experience
Current
November 2014
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental & Business Econonomics
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Nov 2011-Nov 2014
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Environmental & Business Econonomics
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Oct 2007-Oct 2011
Research and Teaching Assistant
Department of Public Economics
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Nov 2010-Mar 2011
Economic Advisory
Forestry Department, Government of Tyrol, Austria
Project advisory in the economic aspects and valuation techniques of the
research project ”Socio-economic valuation of the protection functions of a
forest in Tyrol II”.
Jun 2006-Oct 2009
Researcher (Economics)
alpS - Centre for Natural Hazard and Risk Management, Austria
Project responsibility in the research project ”Socio-economic valuation of
the protection functions of a forest in Tyrol”. Instrumental in the research
project ”Sustainable Development of Alpine Space - Social Acceptance and
evaluation”. Presentation of research results to the public and to the scientific
audience.
Research Interests
Applied Econometrics, Spatial Econometrics, Natural Resources, Trade and Environment,
International Environmental Agreements.
Honours and Awards
2010
LFUI Best Student Paper Award, University of Innsbruck
2006
Research Award, Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment
and Water Management
Projects
2011-2012
International Trade in Scarce Natural Resources
Grant for young researchers, University of Innsbruck.
Amount: e 10.000,00. PI: Andrea Leiter-Scheiring.
Tasks: Co-writing the grand proposal; co-executing the research tasks of the project
2010-2011
Institutions, Economic Incentives and Environmental Behavior
Grant for young researchers, University of Innsbruck.
Amount: e 5.000,00. PI: Esther Blanco.
Tasks: Co-writing the grand proposal; co-executing the research tasks of the project
Memberships
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Austrian Economic Association (NOEG), European Economic Association (EEA), European Association
for Young Economists (EAYE).
Refereeing
Journals
Conferences
Land Economics (1x), Tourism Management (9x), International Journal of
the Commons (1x)
NOEG2013
Language Skills
German (native), English (fluent), Spanish (moderate).
Software Skills
LaTex, Stata, ArcGIS, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Microsoft Office Package.
Publications
Articles, Book chapters:
Borsky, S. and Raschky, P.A. (2014) Intergovernmental Interaction and Compliance With an
International Environmental Agreement (forthcoming, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists)
Borsky, S. and Raschky, P.A. (2009) The Hedonics of Hedonism - Estimating the Value of
Risk-Taking Activities, Kyklos, 62(2): 210-225.
Borsky, S. and Raschky,P.A (2008) Individual Risk-Taking and External Effects - An Empirical Examination, in Martorell, S., Guedes Soares, C. & Barnett, J. Safety, Reliability and
Risk Analysis Theory, Methods and Applications. Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 973-979.
Working Papers:
Borsky, S. (2014) Product Quality and Environmental Standards: The Effect of an International Environmental Agreement on Tropical Timber Trade (together with Leiter-Scheiring,
A. and Pfaffermayr, M.) (Submitted)
Previous Version: Borsky, S. (2011) Does going green pay off? The Effect of an International
Environmental Agreement on Tropical Timber Trade (together with Leiter-Scheiring, A. and Pfaffermayr, M.)
Borsky, S. (2014) Setting one voluntary standard in a heterogeneous Europe - EMAS, environmental taxes and institutional quality (together with Blanco, E.) (Submitted)
Borsky, S. (2011) The Leak in the System! Analyzing third country effects of an International
Environmental Agreement (together with Leiter-Scheiring, A. and Pfaffermayr, M.)
Work in progress:
Renewable Resources, Ethnic Institutions, and Economic Growth: The Case of Maritime Fishery in Africa (together with Raschky, P.A.)
Trade, Conflicts and Natural Resources: A closer look at the diamond market (together with
Leiter-Scheiring, A.)
International Fish Wars: An spatial econometric analysis (together with Raschky, P.A. and
Watson, R.)
External shocks and the rate of resource extraction (together with Racz, V.J. and Ravn-Jonsen,
L.)
Legislative Bargaining on National Policies with Transnational Party Discipline: The Case of
EU-Environmental Regulation (with Raschky, P.A.)
Project reports & Thesis:
Borsky, S (2009) Socio-economic valuation of the protection functions of a forest in Tyrol, alps
Final report.
Borsky, S (2011) Explaining Compliance with International Agreements - An Empirical Analysis, University of Innsbruck.
Borsky, S (2006) The Value of the National Park Neusiedler See -Seewinkel: An application
of the Contingent Valuation Method, University of Vienna.
Conference & Workshop Presentations
2014
16th Annual BIOECON Conference on Resource Economics, Biodiversity Conservation and Development, Cambridge, England; World Congress of Environmental
and Resource Economists, Istanbul, Turkey; Annual conference of the Research
Group on Development Economics, Verein für Socialpolitik, Passau, Germany;
7th Danish Environmental Economics Conference; Research Seminar, University
of Graz, Austria.
2013
28th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Gothenburg,
Sweden; 20th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Toulouse, France; Spring Meeting of Young
Economists, Aarhus, Denmark; Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association,Innsbruck, Austria; Research Seminar, University of Southern Denmark,
Denmark.
2012
14th Annual BIOECON Conference on Resource Economics, Biodiversity Conservation and Development, Cambridge, England; 19th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Prague, Czech Republic; 19th Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics, Umeå, Sweden; 1st
Workshop of the Austrian Environmental Economists, University of Innsbruck,
Austria; Auroe Workshop for young researchers in Environmental Economics,
University of Bern, Switzerland; Research Seminar, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
2011
13th Annual BIOECON Conference on Resource Economics, Biodiversity Conservation and Development, Geneva, Switzerland; 18th Annual Meeting of the
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Rome, Italy;
Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association, Graz, Austria; Environmental Protection and Sustainability Forum, Exeter, England; Seminar on
applied econometrics, University of Innsbruck, Austria; Workshop ”Experiments
and other Methods in Environmental Economics, University Innsbruck, Austria;
Seminar on applied econometrics, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
2010
New Developments in Political Economy, Basel, Switzerland; 4th Conference
of the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, Spain; Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association,
Vienna, Austria; 2nd Workshop of the Research Priority Program in Empirical
and Experimental Economics, University of Innsbruck, Austria; Interdisciplinary
PhD Seminar of the research platform Alpine Space, University of Innsbruck,
Austria; Seminar on applied econometrics, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
2009
PhD Seminar, University of Zurich, Switzerland; European Association of Agricultural Economists PhD Workshop, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany;
Seminar on applied econometrics, University of Innsbruck, Austria; Workshop
”Economic Dimensions of Natural Hazards”, WIFO, Austria (invited).
2008
Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association, Vienna, Austria; Annual
Meeting of the Society of Risk Analysis (SRA), Spain; International Disaster and
Risk Reduction Conference, Davos, Switzerland; Annual Meeting of the European
Geosciences Union, Austria; PhD Seminar, University of Zurich, Switzerland;
Workshop ”Environmental Valuation”, Austrian Federal Forests, Vienna, Austria
(invited); Seminar on applied econometrics, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
2007
Research Seminar, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Public
The benefits of the protection forest in Tyrol, Tiroler Bildungsinstitut, March
2009, The benefits of the protection forest in Tyrol, Landhaus/Innsbruck, February 2009
Media
Study presentation: The value of the protective function of forests in Tyrol,
Radio Tirol, 12.02.2009
Teaching & Supervision
Supervision:
Master Thesis:
Shahriar Shahheydari (current), Tim Weinert (2014), Pia Thorsager
(2014), Siim Meliste (2012).
Bachelor Thesis:
Peter Stecher (2011), Jasmin Wankmüller (2010), Stefan Leiter (2009).
Teaching:
Year
Subject
Institution
Type
Level
2014
Environmental Economics
Environmental Economics
Microeconomics
Univ. of Southern Denmark
Univ. of Southern Denmark
Univ. of Southern Denmark
Lecture
Lecture
Lecture
Graduate
Undergrad.
Undergrad.
2013
Environmental Economics
Environmental Economics
Univ. of Southern Denmark
Univ. of Southern Denmark
Lecture
Lecture
Graduate
Undergrad.
2012
Environmental Economics
Environmental Economics
Univ. of Southern Denmark
Univ. of Southern Denmark
Lecture
Lecture
Graduate
Undergrad.
2011
Public Economics
University of Innsbruck
TA
Undergrad.
2010
Environmental Economics1
Environmental Economics2
University of Innsbruck
University of Innsbruck
TA
TA
Undergrad.
Undergrad.
2009
Environmental Economics1
Environmental Economics2
Public Economics
University of Innsbruck
University of Innsbruck
University of Innsbruck
TA
TA
TA
Undergrad.
Undergrad.
Undergrad.
2008
Environmental Economics2
Public Economics
University of Innsbruck
University of Innsbruck
TA
TA
Undergrad.
Undergrad.
2007
Environmental Economics1
University of Innsbruck
TA
Undergrad.
References
Professor Michael Pfaffermayr
Department of Economics
University of Innsbruck
Universitätstrasse 15
A-6020 Innsbruck
AUSTRIA
Phone: +43 512 507 7359
michael.pfaffermayr[at]uibk.ac.at
Dr. Andrea M. Leiter-Scheiring
Department of Economics
Universitätstrasse 15
A-6020 Innsbruck
AUSTRIA
Phone: +43 512 507 7404
andrea.leiter[at]uibk.ac.at
Dr. Paul A. Raschky
Department of Economics
Monash University
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield 3145 VIC, Australia
AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 3 9903 4515
paul.raschky[at]monash.edu