I forward the following announcement on a post-doc research position to work on a economic model that uses Ipopt (trough the C++ API).<br>Those interested should contact Philippe Delacote (see the announcement).<br><br>/Antonello<br>
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<font size="3"><b>The long term adequacy in the French Forest Sector
Model</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">The Laboratory of Forest Economics (LEF, an INRA-
AgroParisTech research unit) is seeking a researcher in economics,
for a 12 months post-doctoral position (starting January 2013), to
work on the opportunities and risks under climate change (ORACLE
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<font size="3">The objective of this position is to adapt the French
Forest Sector Model (FFSM), in order to consistently describe the
long term evolutions of the forest sector (changes in forest
management, investment, adaptation to climate change) and to run
simulations that analyze the adaptation of the forest sector to
climate change. </font>
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<font size="3">The researcher will implement the necessary changes in
the model, in collaboration with the FFSM team. As a part of the
modeling team, she/he will have to work on the adjustments
(investment and land-use change theory), to implement and program
them in order for the model to become a long term projection tool
(50-100 years time horizon). Then the researcher will have to run
long term simulations to assess the potential long term evolution of
the French forest sector, as well as the potential forest-
agriculture interactions in term of land use. She/he will be in close
collaboration with researchers working on the impact of climate
change on timber species productivity and probability of presence
(from LERFOB, INRA-AgroParisTech research unit).</font></p>
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<font size="3">FFSM is composed of two interconnected modules: an
economic module which represents forest sector in a partial
equilibrium framework and a resource module that describes forest
resource dynamics. So far, the model is consistent to model the
forest sector's evolutions in the relatively short run (15-20 years
time horizon) and it has been used to simulate the impacts of
climatic and energy public policies on the forest sector. A new
module of forest management, including long term investment decisions
is actually being built and constitutes the main adjustment of FFSM
for long term simulations. </font>
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<font size="3"><b>Required skills:</b> modeling and mathematical
optimization, knowledge in economics, C++ and modeling tools,
knowledge in forest sector (preferably), team work,
multi-disciplinary work, French and/or English language. </font>
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<font size="3"><b>FFSM outputs: </b></font>
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<font size="3"><span lang="fr-FR">Sauquet, A., Lecocq, F., Delacote,
P., Caurla, S., Barkaoui, A., Garcia, S. 2011. </span>Estimating
Armington elasticities for sawnwood and application to the French
Forest Sector Model. Resource and Energy Economic<span lang="en-US">s
33(4):771-781</span></font></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm" lang="en-GB"><font size="3">Delacote,
P., F. Lecocq. 2011. Fuelwood, timber and climate change: Insights
from forest sector modeling–An introduction, Journal of Forest
Economics 17(02):107-109.</font></p>
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<font size="3"><span lang="fr-FR">Lecocq F., P. Delacote, S. Caurla, A.
Barkaoui, A. Sauquet. </span><span lang="en-US">2011. Paying for
forest carbon or stimulating fuelwood demand? Insights from the
French Forest Sector Model, Journal of Forest Economics
17(2):157-168.</span></font></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0cm" lang="en-GB"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">Caurla,
S., Lecocq, F., Delacote, P. Et Barkoui, A</span></font></font><font color="#003366"><font size="3"><span lang="en-US">.,
</span></font></font><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="http://www.nancy.inra.fr/lef/content/download/3310/33596/version/1/file/doc_LEF_n2010-03.pdf">"The
French Forest Sector Model: version 1.0. Presentation and theoretical
foundations</a></u></font><font size="3"><i>"</i></font><font size="3">.
Cahiers du LEF N°2010-03.</font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font size="3">Lecocq, F., Caurla, S. Delacote,
P., Barkaoui, A. et Sauquet, </font></font><font size="3">A.,
</font><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="https://www.nancy.inra.fr/lef/content/download/3259/33087/version/1/file/doc_LEF_n2010-02.pdf">"Retribution
of carbon sinks in forest biomass Vs stimulation of timber
consumption: what impacts on the French forest sector?". </a><a href="http://www.nancy.inra.fr/lef/cahiers_du_lef">Cahiers
du LEF, </a></u></font><font size="3"> N°2010-02.</font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font size="3">Caurla, S., Lecocq, F., Delacote,
P. et </font></font><font size="3">Barkaoui, A., </font><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="http://www.nancy.inra.fr/lef/content/download/3111/31342/version/1/file/2009-03.pdf">"Fuelwood
Consumption, Uncertainty over Resources and Public Policies: Which
Impacts on the French Forest Sector?"</a></u></font><font size="3"><span lang="fr-FR">.
</span></font><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="http://www.nancy.inra.fr/lef/cahiers_du_lef"><span lang="fr-FR">Cahiers
du LEF </span></a></u></font><font size="3"><span lang="fr-FR">,
N°2009</span></font><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><span lang="fr-FR">-03.</span></font></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b>Contact: </b></font>
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<font size="3">Philippe Delacote</font></p>
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<font color="#0000ff"><u><font size="3"><span lang="fr-FR">pdelacote</span></font></u></font><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="mailto:franck.lecocq@nancy-engref.inra.fr"><span lang="fr-FR">@nancy-engref.inra.fr</span></a></u></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span lang="fr-FR">+33 (0)3 83 </span>39 68 53</font></p>
<br><br><br>--<br>Antonello Lobianco<br>INRA, Laboratoire d'Economie Forestière<br>14 Rue Girardet - 54000 Nancy, France<br>Tel: +33.652392310<br>Email: <a href="mailto:antonello.lobianco@nancy-engref.inra.fr">antonello.lobianco@nancy-engref.inra.fr</a><br>
<a href="http://antonello.lobianco.org">http://antonello.lobianco.org</a>