My latest substack post:
Do farm animal welfare regulations hurt competitiveness?
open.substack.com/pub/shonferg...

My latest post discusses the potential trade and spatial implications of Canada's regulated system of dairy production, supply management.
TL/DR: Canada's production per person is extremely uniform compared to U.S.; homogenized, you might say.
shonferguson.substack.com/p/will-the-c...

Excellent @slu-econ.bsky.social seminar by Ricardo Guzman,visiting us from Aix-Marseille.

I really wish the BBC and other news outlets would stop using the Mercator projection, especially for maps including Greenland. It looks ridiculous.

It's 2025, and I still cling to the conviction that "only a tooth can be impacted". It would seem that the internet doesn't agree with me...

It's a crisp winter day at the SLU Uppsala campus.

Very thankful to Koen Deconinck and the OECD for the opportunity to present our work (with Richard Gray) today on "Climate Accounting and Domestic Incentives for Agricultural GHG Mitigation".
Paper coming soon!

We also found an Alchian-Allen effect, in which farmers shifted production toward high-value per-tonne crops (canola vs. wheat) and let less of their land sit idle.
Larger farms also sped up their adoption of productivity-enhancing planting technology
doi.org/10.1093/ajae...
doi.org/10.1111/1477...

That was a nice piece!
I have a paper where I estimated the impact of removing ag subsidies in Western Canada (a railway freight subsidy on exported grain), exploiting spatial variation in the $/tonne magnitude of the shock.
Sure enough, value-added and land values dropped. doi.org/10.1111/1477...

New working paper!

"The Causal Effects of Climate Investment Subsidies: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Swedish Firms" (with Johanna Nolgren)

res.slu.se/id/publ/131720

We study a major Swedish grant program (Klimatklivet) subsidizing firms' GHG-reducing investments.

Feedback welcome!

How am I supposed to focus on grading exams with a chip bag just lying there, outside my office door?