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Event Information:

  • Mon
    01
    Aug
    2022
    Wed
    03
    Aug
    2022

    RISK ANALYSIS SEMINAR and SIMETAR WORKSHOP

    Dept. of Economics and Society in NIBIO will arrange a three days’ workshop dealing with use of the software SIMETAR (SIMulations and Econometrics To  Analyze Risks) in “Store møterom”, Raveien 9, Ås from August 1-3 2022. SIMETAR is an Excel Add-in and good knowledge in using Excel in addition to interest in conducting risk analysis is required to benefit from the workshop. The target group is researchers, post-docs and scholarship holders with requirements to conduct risk analysis for publishing scientific journal articles.

    Dr Keith Schumann will lecture at the workshop. Before the workshop at around 9:30 Am he will give a 2 h open presentation entitled “Risk Analysis, Simulation, and Spreadsheet Modelling: Applications in Crop Insurance”. The seminar will also be streamed on Teams.

    Dr Keith Schumann is Senior Vice President of AgriLogic Consulting, located at the campus of Texas A&M in College Station. He also participated in a similar workshop, organized by NILF (Norwegian Institute of Agricultural Economics Research) in cooperation with NJF, which was held in Ås in 2004. 

    More information about the workshop and registration etc. can be found here:

    https://nibio.pameldingssystem.no/simetar