Hanna Lindström

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I work as assistant professor at the department of economics at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE), Umeå University, Sweden.

I receieved my PhD in economics at USBE in 2021. 

My main research interests include environmental economics, public procurement, food policy. You can find more information about my published and ongoing work below. My CV can be found here.

Research

Working papers:

The effect of environmental protection expenditures on industrial employment in Sweden, CERE Working paper no 2023:3 (revise and resubmit in Environmental and Resource Economics, april 2024), with G. Amjadi, M. Bostian, T. Lundgren and M. Vesterberg.  Abstract: In this paper, we empirically investigate how environmental protection expenditures affect sector-level employment within manufacturing industries, using detailed firm-level data for Sweden for the years 2002–2021. We use a structural model approach that allows for a decomposition of the net employment effect of environmental protection expenditures into a cost effect, a factor shift effect, and a demand effect. In our empirical framework, we use instrumental variables to account for endogenous environmental spending stemming from, e.g., corporate social responsibility and self-regulation. Our results reveal that the effects of environmental protection expenditures on sector-level employment differ in sign, magnitude and, to a lesser extent, mechanism across sectors. Another important conclusion is that the net employment effects are more often negative for the Swedish sample, compared to estimates using a similar empirical approach on U.S. data. Link here



The effects of electricity and fuel prices on Swedish industry: a panel VAR approach, with T. Lundgren and M. Vesterberg. Abstract: In this paper, we empirically investigate the dynamic effects of electricity and fossil fuel price shocks on factor demand, using detailed firm-level data for the Swedish manufacturing industry for the years 2003-2021 and a panel vector autore- gressive model of factor inputs and associated prices. Our results reveal inelastic demand for the inputs electricity and labor, elastic demand for fossil fuel, and that the effects of energy price shocks on labor demand are close to zero.



Lindström, H. (2021). Price transmission for organic and conventional milk products in Sweden (No. 22). HFI Working Paper. Abstract: Although much empirical work addresses the efficiency of food supply chains by studying price transmission, studies on quality-differentiated food are scarce, and particularly for organic food vis-á-vis conventional food. This study adds to this scarce literature by analysing wholesale to retail price transmission for organic and conventional milk in the Swedish milk sector, using time-series analysis applied to monthly price data for the period Jan 2007–Nov 2017. Estimations are performed using the non-linear ARDL model which allows for asymmetric cointegration of prices and a simultaneous analysis of short- and long-run asymmetry, the latter of which has been largely overlooked in previous studies. In the case of conventional milk, results indicate positive asymmetries both in the short-run and the long-run. For organic milk, the long-run positive asymmetry is smaller and not statistically significant in all specifications. Organic consumers are therefore likely to experience smaller differences between surplus losses and gains, following positive and negative wholesale price changes, respectively.  Link here




Work in progress:

Industry factor demand and energy prices, a Difference-in-Differences approach, with T. Lundgren and M. Vesterberg.


Early stage work:

Creating attractive procurement processes - strategic tools for more tenderers. Funder: Swedish Competition Authority. Project period: 2024–2026. PI: Assistant professor Hanna Lindström.  Co-applicants: Sofia Lundberg (Professor, department of Economics, USBE) and Johan Lundberg (associate professor, department of Economics, USBE). Project description: While an overarching aim of public procurement is to safeguard and make use of competitive markets, there are also political goals for public procurement concerning, for example, the environment and climate, and the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises. This three-year project studies how the design of the procurement process affects a potential supplier’s decision to submit a tender and the number of tenderers. An important contribution is that both actual and potential tenderers are included in the empirical analysis, which is based on a combination of survey data, procurement data and firm data.

Environmental economics and gender. Funder: Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS). Project period: 2024-2028. Project description: This doctoral student project aims to analyse economic behaviours within the fields of environment, climate and energy from a gender perspective. Furthermore, the projects sets out to analyse distributive effects of policies within these areas from a gender perspective, and whether they can be designed in a more cost-effective and equitable way. The project starts in September 2024, and supervisors for the PhD student is Senior Lecturer Göran Bostedt (department of Economics), Assistant Professor Hanna Lindström, and Professor Annika Nordlund (Department of Psychology, Umeå University)


Published articles:

Lindström, H. (2022). The Swedish consumer market for organic and conventional milk: A demand system analysis. Agribusiness, 38(3), 505-532. Link here

Lindström, H., Lundberg, S., & Marklund, P. O. (2022). Green public procurement: An empirical analysis of the uptake of organic food policy. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 28(3), 100752. Link here

Lindström, H., Lundberg, S., & Marklund, P. O. (2020). How Green Public Procurement can drive conversion of farmland: An empirical analysis of an organic food policy. Ecological Economics, 172, 106622. Link here   


Government reports

Lindström, H., & Lundberg, S. Att upphandla med miljöhänsyn. Commissioned work by Swedish Competition Authority, report 2022:5. Link here 

Teaching

Spring 2024 Public procurement as an environmental policy instrument.

Fall 2023 Public procurement: theory, practice and economics

Fall 2022 - Fall 2023 Microeconomics: Market failures and resource allocation problems

Spring 2022 Macroeconomic analysis in the long run

Spring 2021 Introduction to Economics

Fall 2020 Macroeconomic analysis in the short run

Spring 2020 Introduction to Economics

Fall 2019 Macroeconomic analysis in the short run

Responsibilities