Pia Nilsson is a Professor of agricultural economics at the Helsinki University. She also has a position as a researcher at IFN. Pia Nilsson defended her thesis on real estate and spatial economics at Jönköping International Business School in 2013. Earlier, she had a position as an Associate Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research focuses on the driving forces for productivity development within agricultural enterprises, human capital, skills supply, competitiveness, and the environment.
Some of the questions that Pia Nilsson tries to answer with her research:
- What factors affect the conditions for entrepreneurship in rural areas?
- How do climate change and extreme weather events affect business productivity and growth?
- How are career choices and renewal in family-owned businesses affected by access to capital through inheritance and gifts?
