David Sundström
Department of Economics, USBE, Umeå University
Biblioteksgränd 6, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden
Phone: +46 70 670 25 97
[email protected]
Linkedin profile
Updated December 2016
Personal
Born May 1985 - Stockholm, Sweden
Education
P.hD., Econometrics (2016), Umeå University
Thesis title: On Specification and Inference in the Econometrics of Public Procurement.
Advisor: Professor Kurt Brännäs. Co-advisor: Associate Professor Sofia Lundberg. Opponent: Professor Michael Visser (CNRS and CREST). Grading committee: Professor Per
Johansson (Uppsala University and IFAU), Associate Professor Henrik Jordahl (IFN and
Uppsala University), and Professor Marie Wiberg (Umeå University)
Special Graduate Student (2013), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.Sc., Statistics (2011), Umeå University
Thesis title: The finite sample properties of the Lewbel-Linton estimator. Advisor: Professor
Xavier de Luna
B.Sc., Politics and Economics, major: Economics (2010), Umeå University, including
exchange studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany
B.Sc., Statistics (2009), Umeå University
Two semesters of studies in the Humantities (2005/06), Stockholm University
Academic
Positions
2016- Researcher (70%), Department of Economics, USBE, Umeå University
2016- Senior lecturer (30%, deputy), Department of Economics, USBE, Umeå University
2011-2016 PhD student, Department of Economics, USBE, Umeå University
2011 Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics, Umeå University
Research
Interests
Econometrics
Current
Research
Projects
Within- and across-consumer learning and structural state dependence. Funded by
the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation and the Tore Browaldh Foundation (Handelsbanken). With David Granlund (Umeå University, project leader) and
Andrew Ching (University of Toronto)
Publications
Using Public Procurement to Implement Environmental Policy: An Empirical Analysis (2015) Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Vol. 17, p. 487-520 (with Sofia
Lundberg, Per-Olov Marklund and Elon Strömbäck)
Methodology
Working Papers
It’s All in the Interval: An imperfect measurements approach to estimate bidders’
primitives in auctions (2014) Umeå Economic Studies No. 899
The Competition Effect in a Public Procurement Model: An error-in-variables approach (2016) Umeå Economic Studies No. 920
A Comparison of Techniques to Evaluate Policies in Public Procurement (2016)
Umeå Economic Studies No. 928
Work in Progress
A New Measurement Perspective on the Intergenerational Elasticity of Income
(with Stefanie Heidrich)
Testing Equilibrium in Auctions
Teaching
Lecturer and course responsibility
Microeconomics, introductory level (three times)
Tools and Methods for Economists, intermediate level (two times)
Macroeconomic Analysis in the Long Run, introductory level (two times)
Lecturer
Macroeconomic Analysis in the Long Run, introductory level (one time)
Methods of the Social Sciences, intermediate level (one time)
Teaching assistant
Regression Analysis, introductory level (one time)
To Examine Social Phenomena, introductory level (one time)
Imperfect Competition, Risk, Information- and Welfare Economics, introductory
level (one time)
Macroeconomic Analysis in the Short Run, introductory level (two times)
Macroeconomic Analysis in the Long Run, introductory level (two times)
Industrial Organization, intermediate level (one time)
Thesis supervision
One first year master thesis
Courses taken in pedagogics
Introduction to University Teaching (1 week)
To Support Learning (2 weeks)
Theories of Learning (2 weeks)
Teaching at the University (2 weeks)
Supervision in Higher Education (2 weeks)
Workshops in pedagogics
Teaching in student active environments utilizing scarce resources
Teaching using rubrics
Challenging teaching situations
Presentations
2016 Third International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE) Annual
Conference, Milan
2015 Brown bag seminar at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN),
Stockholm
2015 Seventh Swedish Workshop on Competition Research, The Swedish Competition Authority, Stockholm
2015 Second International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE) Annual
Conference, Thessaloniki
2015 Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics, Ulvön
2015 The Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Ghent
2012- Numerous seminar presentations within Umeå University
Participation
2014 Nationell konferens i nationalekonomi (Swedish National Conference in Economics), Umeå
2011 Fourth Swedish Workshop on Competition Research, The Swedish Competition Authority, Stockholm
2011 Public Procurement and Sustainable Growth, Venice
Scholarships and
Research Grants
2016 Wallander scholarship; full funding for 3 years of post-doctoral research granted
to young prominent researchers (Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation and the Tore Browaldh Foundation, Handelsbanken, 1 605 000 SEK)
2016 Research programme funding (Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation
and the Tore Browaldh Foundation, Handelsbanken, Main applicant: associate professor David Granlund, 1 500 000 SEK)
2016 Siamon scholarship (awarded by the Siamon Foundation, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, 9 000 SEK)
2016 Wallenberg travel grant (Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, 4 000 SEK)
2015 Siamon scholarship (awarded by the Siamon Foundation, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, 8 000 SEK)
2015 Kempe Foundation travel grant (awarded by the Faculty of Social Sciences,
Umeå University, 6 000 SEK)
2015 Kempe Foundation grant (awarded by the Umeå student union, 6 000 SEK)
2015 Wallenberg travel grant (Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, 3 000 SEK)
2012 Hedelius scholarship for visiting graduate studies at MIT (Jan Wallander and
Tom Hedelius Foundation, Handelsbanken, 230 000 SEK)
Other Merits
2017 Member of the review committee for the 2017 edition of the Spring Meeting
of Young Economists conference, Halle
2016 Member of the review committee for the 2016 edition of the Spring Meeting
of Young Economists conference, Lisbon
2015 Nominated for Umeå student union’s pedagogical prize1
2014- Discussant at several pre-dissertation seminars within the Department of
Economics, USBE
2014 Nominated for the Umeå School of Business and Economics’ pedagogical
prize1
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Thank you students!
2014 Nominated for Umeå student union’s pedagogical prize1
2013 Nominated for Umeå student union’s pedagogical prize1
2013-2015 Member of the Educational Board at the Department of Economics
2012 Department of Economics PhD student representative
References
Professor emeritus (Econometrics) Kurt Brännäs. [email protected]. Department of Economics, USBE, Umeå University, +46 90 786 61 01
Associate Professor (Economics) and dean of USBE Sofia Lundberg. [email protected].
Department of Economics, USBE, Umeå University, +46 90 786 52 06
Professor (Economics) Gauthier Lanot. [email protected]. Department of Economics, USBE, Umeå University, +46 90 786 99 19
Assistant Professor (Statistics) Maria Karlsson. [email protected]. Department of Statistics, USBE, Umeå University, +46 90 786 55 96
Assistant Professor (Economics) Niklas Hanes (for matters regarding teaching).
[email protected]. Department of Economics, USBE, Umeå University, +46 90
786 95 86