National Bureau of Economic Research
NBER: Lund Symposium on the Economics of Substance Use

Subject: Lund Symposium on the Economics of Substance Use
From: Michael Grossman (mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 16:40:46 EST


Below is a call for contributed papers for a symposium on the economics of substance use to be held at Lund University in Lund, Sweden, August 13-14, 2004. I am a member of the organizing committee. If you would like to present a paper at the symposium, please send an abstract to Petter Lundborg as a file attachment to an e-mail message (Petter.Lundborg@luche.lu.se), and send a copy to me (mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu).

Michael Grossman
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Call for contributed papers
Economics of Substance Use - Individual Behaviour, Social Interactions, Markets, and Politics

Symposium in Lund, Sweden, 13-14 August, 2004

Preliminary programme

The Symposium will take place at the School of Economics and Management in Lund. There will be four sub-themes (each with a keynote speaker):

  1.. Individual behaviour (Michael Grossman)
  2.. Social Interactions (Ole-Jörgen Skog)
  3.. Markets (Steve Levitt)
  4.. Politics (Robin Room)
For each sub-theme we are also planning for some additional, parallel sessions for invited and contributed papers.

Format

The format will be around 70 participants, about half of which will be economists and the other half non-economists, including the four keynote speakers, other invited speakers, contributed papers, and additional participants without papers. A mixture of presentations by economists and non-economists is planned. A conference volume with a selection of papers is also being planned.

Organising committee

The organising committee consists of Mats Berglund, Michael Grossman, Stig Larsson, Björn Lindgren, Petter Lundborg, and Agneta Öjehagen.

Submit an abstract

If you would like to submit a contributed paper for the Symposium on the Economics of Substance Use, please send an abstract to Petter Lundborg at Lund University Centre for Health Economics, P.O. Box 705, SE-220 07 Lund, Sweden, as soon as possible and no later than 1 February 2004.

Telephone: +46-46 222 06 56

Telefax: +46-46 222 06 51

Email: Petter.Lundborg@luche.lu.se

Lund University Centre for Health Economics, Box 705, 220 07 Lund, Sweden

Visit address: Scheelevägen 15, Tel: +46-462220659, Fax: +46-462220651, www.luche.lu.se

Michael Grossman
National Bureau of Economic Research
365 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, New York 10016-4309
212-817-7959 (phone)
212-817-1597 (fax)
mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu (e-mail)
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/economics/faculty/grossman.htm (home page)