2018-09-27

Discipline of Economics, Finance and Statistics Jönköping P.O. Box 1026, SE-551 11 Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) Visiting Address: Gjuterigatan 5 Jönköping University Phone (office): +46 36 10 17 59 Year of birth: 1980 Phone (private): +46 76 084 07 14 Nationality: Email: [email protected]

Assistant Professor in Economics at the Discipline of Economics, Finance and Statistics, JIBS, 2017–.

- Pedagogical training for higher education at Gothenburg University and Jönköping University, 2016, 2018 (17.5 ECTS). - Guest researcher, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law, 2016/01–2016/08. - Policy analyst at The Swedish Board of Agriculture, 2012–2014. - Postdoctoral researcher. Discipline of Economics, Finance and Statistics, JIBS, 2013–2017. - Ph.D. in Economics. Discipline of Economics, Finance and Statistics, JIBS, 2013. - Ph.D. candidate. Discipline of Economics, Finance and Statistics, JIBS, 2008–2013. - Research assistant. Discipline of Economics, Finance and Statistics, JIBS, 2007. - M.Sc. in Economics, University of Umeå, 2001–2006. - English teacher (voluntary work) Akim Awisa, Ghana, 2003.

Nilsson, P. (2013). Price Formation in Real Estate Markets. JIBS Dissertation Series No. 088.

Supervisors: Professor Åke E Andersson, Professor Börje Johansson. Faculty opponent: Professor Nancy Bockstael, University of Maryland. Examination committee: Professor Maureen Kilkenny (University of Nevada), Professor Björn Hårsman (Royal Institute of Technology, KTH) and Professor Pär Sjölander (JIBS).

CV Pia Nilsson Page 1 of 9 Nilsson, P., Backman, M., Bjerke, L., & Maniriho, A. (2017). One cow per poor family: effects on the growth of consumption and crop production, World Development. Accepted.

Nilsson, P. (2018). The role of land use consolidation in improving crop yields among farm households in Rwanda, Journal of Development Studies. Advanced online access. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1520217.

Nilsson, P. (2018). Spatial spillovers and households’ involvement in the nonfarm sector: Evidence from Rwanda, Regional Studies, 1-10. Forthcoming in print.

Backman, M., & Nilsson, P. (2018). The role of cultural heritage in attracting skilled individuals. Journal of Cultural Economics, 42(1), 111-138.

Nilsson, P. (2017). Productivity effects of CAP investment support: Evidence from Sweden using matched panel data, Land Use Policy, 66, 172-182. Forthcoming in print.

Nilsson, P. (2017). Empirical Assessment of the Smart Specialization Concept on Firm Performance in European Urban and Rural Regions. Review of Regional Studies, 47(2), 153-174.

Nilsson, P. (2017). Are valuations of place-based Amenities driven by Scale? Housing Studies, 32(4), 449-469.

Nilsson, P. (2016). The Influence of Related and Unrelated Industry Diversity on Retail Firm Failure. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 28, 219–227.

Naldi. L, Nilsson. P, Westlund. H., & Wixe. S. (2015). What is Smart Rural Development? Journal of Rural Studies. 40, 90-101.

Nilsson, P. (2015). The influence of Urban and Natural Amenities on Second Home Prices. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 30(3), 427-450

Nilsson, P. (2014). Natural Amenities in Urban Space – a Geographically Weighted Regression Approach. Landscape and Urban Planning, 121, 45-54.

Karlsson, J., & Nilsson, P. (2014). Capitalisation of Single Farm Payment on Farm Price: An Analysis of Swedish Farm Prices using Farm-level data. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 41(2), 279-300.

Nilsson, P., & Johansson, S. (2013). Location Determinants of Agricultural Land Prices. Review of Regional Research, 33(1), 1-21.

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Nilsson. P., & Heshmati, A. (Eds.). Efficiency, Equity and Well-Being in Selected African Countries. In: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being. Berlin. Springer-Verlag. Forthcoming in 2018.

Johansson, M., Nilsson., P., & Westlund, H. (2018). Migration and Ageing in Expanding and Shrinking European Regions. In: U. Blien et al. (Eds.). Modeling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets. Advances in Regional Science. Berlin. Springer-Verlag.

Heshmati, A., Rashidghalam, M., & Nilsson P. (2018). Measurement and analysis of multidimensional well-being in Rwanda, pp. 291-325. In: Heshmati, A. (Ed.). Rwanda Handbook of Economic and Social Policy (Vol. 1). JIBS Research Reports (ISBN: 978-91- 86345-78-5.). Jönköping International Business School, Sweden.

Maniriho, A., & Nilsson, P. (2018). Determinants of Livelihood Diversification among Households in Rwanda: the Role of Education, ICT and Urbanization. In: Heshmati, A. (Ed.). Rwanda Handbook of Economic and Social Policy (Vol. 1). JIBS Research Reports (ISBN: 978- 91-86345-78-5.). Jönköping International Business School, Sweden.

Wixe, S., Nilsson, P., Naldi, L., & Westlund, H. (2017). Disentangling Innovation in Small Food Firms - The role of External Knowledge, Support, and Collaboration. The Royal Institute of technology, Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies (CESIS) electronic working paper series. No. 446.

Johansson, M., Nilsson, P., & Westlund, H. (2015). Demographic and Rural Trends in Europe. In: Friedrich, M., Westlund &, Y. (Eds.). Social Capital and Development Trends in Rural Areas, pp. 129-158. Vol. 10. Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden.

Nilsson, P., Naldi, L., Westlund, H., & Wixe, S. (2015). The Influence of Related and Unrelated Variety on Firm Performance in European Urban and Rural Areas. In: Friedrich, M., Westlund &, Y. (Eds.). Social Capital and Development Trends in Rural Areas, pp. 159-178. Vol. 10. Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden.

Nilsson, P. (2008). Estimating Economic Values of Meadows and Grazing’s using Hedonic Housing Modelling and GIS. CISEG working paper series. No 5.

Johansson, B., Karlsson, C., Backman, M., & Nilsson, P. (2007). The Lisbon Agenda from 2000- 2010. The Royal Institute of technology, Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies (CESIS) electronic working paper series. No 106.

CV Pia Nilsson Page 3 of 9 Course Level Role(s) Time, place Advanced Macroeconomics Master/ Examiner JIBS and Growth doctoral Main lecturer 2016– Lecturer in a team and course JIBS coordinator 2014–2015 Advanced Macroeconomics Master Examiner University of and Growth Main lecturer with local co- Rwanda 2016– teacher Lecturer in a team and course University of coordinator Rwanda 2014–2015 Development Economics Bachelor Guest lecturer JIBS 2018 Examiner, lecturer in a team JIBS of 5 2017 Issues in Development Bachelor Examiner JIBS Economics 2017–2018 Intermediate Macroeconomic Bachelor Examiner and main lecturer JIBS Theory 2014–2015 Lecturer in a team of 3 and JIBS course coordinator 2008–2013 Critical Academic Writing Master Guest lecturer JIBS Supervisor 2016–2017 Research Methods and Master Guest lecturer Gothenburg Analytical Perspectives University 2016 Creative Industry Master Guest lecturer JIBS Organization 2011-2012 Introductory Analysis of the Master Lecturer in a team of 3 JIBS Experience Industries Course coordinator 2008-2013 Experience, Entertainment, Master Lecturer in a team of 3 JIBS Arts and Economics Course coordinator 2008-2013

- 2016 – present: third supervisor for Alexandar Petreski. PhD student in Economics, JIBS. - 2017 – present: second supervisor for Jonse Bane, PhD student in Economics at Addis Ababa University. - 2017 – present: second supervisor for Gutu Gutema, PhD student in Economics at Addis Ababa University. - 2018 – present: second supervisor for Miquel Carrea, PhD student in Economics at JIBS.

CV Pia Nilsson Page 4 of 9 2018- The Swedish Board of Evaluations of the Swedish Main 2 600 000 2019 Agriculture rural development programme applicant/Project 2014-2020* leader 2018- Hakon Swenson Stiftelse Career paths in retailing Co-applicant 2 300 000 2020 2018- Handelsrådet Career paths in wholesale Co-applicant 1 900 000 2020 2015- The Swedish National The role of cultural heritage for Main 2 056 708 2016 Heritage Board development in urban and rural applicant/Project regions leader 2015- The Swedish Board of Ex-post evaluation of the Main 1 200 000 2016 Agriculture Swedish rural development applicant/Project programme 2009–2013* leader 2014- The Swedish Retail and Short and long-term impacts of Co-applicant 3 000 000 2016 Wholesale Development business failure in the retail Council sector 2013- European Commission Taste – Towards A SmarT rural Co-applicant 3 000 000 2016 (RurAgri), FORMAS Europe 2008- The Swedish National Scholarship for PhD. studies Main applicant 2 000 000 2011 Heritage Board * Part of a framework agreement between JIBS and The Swedish Board of Agriculture.

- Member of the disciplinary committee (DAN) at Jönköping University representing JIBS, 2018-. - Member of recruitment group for positions as Assistant Professor at the Discipline of Economics, Finance and Statistics (JIBS) 2018–. - Team member of JIBS SIDA financed project Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Development (EID) including:1 - Capacity building through co-teaching at University of Rwanda 2014–. - Appointed member of team to review the master program in Economics at University of Rwanda 2018–. - Appointed member of team to review the master program in Economics at University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique, 2018–.

1 The EID is a collaboration between JIBS and African partner universities in the higher education areas of economics and management and it covers the areas of education, research supervision and research dissemination. The five partners are: Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), the College of Business and Economics at Addis Ababa University, the College of Business and Economics (CBE) at University of Rwanda, the College of Business and Management Sciences (CoBAMS) at Makerere University and University of Dar Es Salaam Business School (UDBS) at University of Dar Es Salaam. A collaboration with University Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique is initiated.

CV Pia Nilsson Page 5 of 9 - Developed a framework for a collaborative coursework-based PhD program in economics among east African Universities together with Professor Almas Heshmati, 2015. - Appointed mentor for Ph.D. Elie Marwin Mbassana, University of Rwanda and M.Sc. Aristide Maniriho, University of Rwanda in the framework of the Career Development Initiative (CDI), 2015, 2016. - Appointed mentor for M.Sc. Silas Bahizi, University of Rwanda and M.Sc. Aristide Maniriho, University of Rwanda in the framework of the Career Development Initiative (CDI), 2015, 2016.

- Nominated for the ProFutura Scientia XII programme by Jönköping University in 2018.

- Editorial assistant for The Annals of Regional Science, 2011–2014. - Reviewer for: Land Use Policy, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Cultural Economics, The Annals of Regional Science, Journal of Regional Science, Landscape and Urban Planning, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics. - Book reviewer: Geography of Growth, Innovation, Networks and Collaborations, Karlsson, C., & Bjerke, L. (Eds). (2016). Springer. - Book reviewer: Determinants of Poverty and its Reductions in Africa, Heshmati, A. (Ed.). (2017). Routledge. - Member of organizing committee or part in organizing of the following conferences: - The 50th Congress of the European Regional Science Association ERSA, August 19–23, 2010, Jönköping, Sweden. - The 6th International Conference on Nonlinear Economic Dynamics (NED09) 31 May – 2 June 2009, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden. - Member of the Review Committee for the NARSC 2018 Graduate Student Paper Competition.

Regional history society (Västergötlands Hembygdsförbund). Annual Meeting, May 5, 2018, Habo, Sweden. Theme: cultural heritage and regional development.

Horizon 2020 project ROBUST. Workshop 'Smart Regional Growth and Rural-Urban Relations’. February 1, 2018, Brussels, Belgium. Invited by Professor Michael Woods and the Horizon 2020 project ROBUST (Rural-Urban Outlooks: Unlocking Synergies). Theme: What is smart rural development?

CV Pia Nilsson Page 6 of 9 Minsitry of Enterprise and Innovation (Swedish: Näringsdepartementet), December 7, 2016, , Sweden. Theme: Results of the ex post evaluation of the Swedish RDP 2009- 2013.

European Commission. Good practice workshop July 4-5, 2016, Palermo, . Theme: Methods for assessing impacts of Rural Development Programmes 2007-2013: Practices and solutions for the ex post evaluation. Organized by the European Evaluation Helpdesk for Rural Development.

Nordic Council of Ministers. Workshop on Natural and Cultural Heritage as a Resource for Regional Development. September 12-13, 2016, Helsinki. Organized by SYKE and the Nordic Council of Ministers.

European Commission. Workshop ‘Evaluation methods in assessing the role of European RDPs 2007-2013. Theme: Evaluation results of Swedish RDP 2009-2013, April 5, 2015, Ispra (Italy). Organized by JRC.

The Swedish Board of Agriculture. Workshop: Results of the ex post evaluation of the Swedish RDP 2009-2013 (Part 1), February 1, 2017.

Backman, M., Holgersson, T., Klaesson, J., Nilsson, P., Rickardsson, J., Wassén, L., & Westlund, H., (2016), Slututvärdering av det Svenska Landsbygdsprogrammet 2007–2013. Delrapport 1: Utvärdering av åtgärder för ökad konkurrenskraft., Jordbruksverkets rapportserie, UTV16:2. https://webbutiken.jordbruksverket.se/sv/artiklar/utv162.html

Nilsson, P., and Westlund, H. (Eds.). (2016). Report on European Extension and Regional Diversity, WP1, TASTE Project, Sweden, Collection WP Report. http://taste-smarteurope.eu

Nilsson, Pia (Ed.). (2016). WP1: European Extension and Regional Diversity. TASTE project, Sweden. http://taste-smarteurope.eu

Hellerstedt, K., Jenkins, A., & Nilsson, P. (2016). Företagsnedläggning inom handeln: Erfarenheter, välbefinnande och motivation att starta igen. Forskningsrapport Handelsrådet, 2016:7. http://handelsradet.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-7-Foretagsnedlaggning-inom-handeln.pdf

Nilsson, P. (2016). Betydelsen av kulturarv för utveckling i stad och landsbygd. Slutrapport, forskningsprojekt 3.2.2-3435-2014. Riksantikvarieämbetet. http://fou-anslag.raa.se/

Backman, M., Klaesson., J., Nilsson, P., & Strömberg, C., (2015). Jämställdhet, integration och konkurrenskraft. En empirisk studie med fokus på svenska jordbruksföretag. Jönköping International Business School. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1033516/FULLTEXT01.pdf

CV Pia Nilsson Page 7 of 9 Backman, M., Klaesson, J., & Nilsson, P. (2010). HV71: s betydelse för Jönköpingsregionen, Jönköping International Business School. Not online, available on request.

Nilsson, P. (2010). Ängs- och betesmarkers betydelse för fastighetsvärden. Jordbruksverkets rapportserie, 2010:5. https://www2.jordbruksverket.se/webdav/files/SJV/trycksaker/Pdf_rapporter/ra10_5.pdf

Johanson, B., Karlsson, C., Backman, B., & Juusola (now Nilsson), P. (2007). The Lisbon agenda from 2000 to 2010. The Royal Institute of technology, Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies (CESIS) electronic working paper series. No. 106.

Juusola (now Nilsson), P. (2006). Visingsös värdeskapande förmåga. Riksantikvarieämbetets rapportserie. 340-02035-2006. Not online, available on request.

The Role Played by Cultural Heritage in Influencing the Location Choices of Skilled Individuals https://economiststalkart.org/tag/mikaela-backman/

Elitidrott har en viktig betydelse för regional tillväxt och utveckling http://vertikals.se/backman-nilsson/2015/03/08/hv71/

Kulturarv i fokus 2016 http://vertikals.se/guestblog/2016/05/21/kulturarv/

This is smart rural growth (part 1) http://vertikals.se/guestblog/2016/10/14/horizon-2020/

Workshop on Smart Regional Growth and Rural-Urban Relations, Horizon 2020 project ROBUST, February 1, 2018, Brussels, Belgium.

The 14th Workshop on Social Capital and Development Trends in the Japanese and Swedish Countryside, June 20–22, 2017, Nuku’alofa, Tonga.

Addis Ababa International Conference on Business and Economics (AAICBE), December 6-8, 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Session chair.

The 2nd International Conference EABEW-2016 on Recent Trends in Economic Development, Finance and Management Research in Eastern Africa, June 23–25, 2016, Kigali, Rwanda. Session chair.

European Commission, Good practice WS: Methods for assessing impacts of Rural Development Programmes 2007-2013: Practices and solutions for the ex post evaluation, July 4–5, 2016, Palermo, Italy.

CV Pia Nilsson Page 8 of 9 Workshop on Natural and Cultural Heritage as a Resource for Regional Development, September 12–13, 2016, Helsinki, Finland.

The 1st Conference on Recent trends in Economic Development, Finance and Management Research in Eastern Africa, May 4–6, 2015, Kigali, Rwanda. Session chair.

The 53th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association WRSA, February 16–19, 2014, San Diego, USA.

The Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International NARSC, November 12–15, 2014, Washington DC, USA.

The 11th International Workshop on Social Capital and Development Trends in Japan’s and Sweden’s Countryside, August 21–23, 2014, Östersund, Sweden.

The 53rd Congress of the European Regional Science Association ERSA: Regional Integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the World Economy, August 28–31, 2013, Palermo, Italy.

The 50th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association WRSA, February 21–March 2, 2011, Monterey, USA.

The 51th Congress of the European Regional Science Association ERSA: The New Challenges for European Regions and Urban Areas in a Globalized World in Barcelona, on August 30-September 2, 2011.

The 50th Congress of the European Regional Science Association ERSA, August 19–23, 2010, Jönköping, Sweden.

The 49th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association WRSA, February 21–24, 2010, , USA.

The 48th Congress of the European Regional Science Association ERSA: Culture, Cohesion and Competitiveness: Regional Perspectives, August 27–31, 2008, Liverpool.

Swedish (mother tongue), English (fluent) SPSS, Stata, R, GIS (ArcView, MapInfo, Manifold, Quantum Gis), Prezi

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