Odd Rune Straume

Associate Professor of Economics

University of Minho

Address:

Department of Economics

School of Economics and Management

University of Minho

Campus de Gualtar

4710-057 Braga

Portugal

     CV        Biography        Publications        Work in progress               

Biography

• Born 1971, Norway.

   

• Dr. polit. 2002 (University of Bergen, Norway)

• Aggregation (Provas de Agregação) in Economics, 2008 (University of Minho)

   

• Associate Professor, University of Minho (since 2007)

• Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Bergen

• Research Fellow, Health Economics Bergen (HEB)

• Member of Economic Policies Research Unit (NIPE), University of Minho

• Research Fellow, CESifo, Munich

   

• Co-Editor of the Portuguese Economic Journal (since 2008)

   

• Author pages at IDEAS/RePEc, SSRN and ResearcherID

• Main research interests:

  • Industrial organisation

  • Labour markets and globalisation

  • Competition and regulation in health care markets

   

• Teaching experience:

  • Microeconomics

  • Industrial Organisation

  • International trade

  • Health Economics

  • Quantitative Methods

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Publications

• "Company taxation and merger incentives in international oligopoly: on international policy coordination with strategic trade" (with Kjell Erik Lommerud and Trond E. Olsen), Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, forthcoming.

• "Pharmaceutical patents: incentives for research and development or marketing?" (with Kurt R. Brekke), Southern Economic Journal, 76, 351-374, 2009.

• "Firm heterogeneity and wages in unionised labour markets: Theory and evidence" (with Paulo Bastos and Natália P. Monteiro), Labour Economics, 16, 440-450, 2009.

• "Can deunionization lead to international outsourcing?" (with Kjell Erik Lommerud and Frode Meland), Journal of International Economics, 77, 109-119, 2009.

• "Competition and waiting times in hospital markets" (with Kurt R. Brekke and Luigi Siciliani), Journal of Public Economics, 92, 1607-1628, 2008.

• "Outsourcing in contests" (with Frode Meland), Public Choice, 131, 315-331, 2007.

• "Reference pricing of pharmaceuticals" (with Kurt R. Brekke and Ingrid Königbauer), Journal of Health Economics, 26, 613-642, 2007.

• "Industry concentration and strategic trade policy in successive oligopoly" (with Gjermund Nese), Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 7, 31-52, 2007.

• "Gatekeeping in health care" (with Kurt R. Brekke and Robert Nuscheler), Journal of Health Economics, 26, 149-170, 2007.

• "Product market integration and environmental policy coordination in an international duopoly", Environmental & Resource Economics, 34, 535-563, 2006.

• "Managerial delegation and merger incentives with asymmetric costs", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 162, 450-469, 2006.

• "National versus international mergers in unionized oligopoly" (with Kjell Erik Lommerud and Lars Sørgard), RAND Journal of Economics, 37, 212-233, 2006.

• "Globalisation and union opposition to technological change" (with Kjell Erik Lommerud and Frode Meland), Journal of International Economics, 68, 1-23, 2006.

• "Quality and location choices under price regulation" (with Kurt R. Brekke and Robert Nuscheler), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 15, 207-227, 2006.

• "Downstream merger with upstream market power" (with Kjell Erik Lommerud and Lars Sørgard), European Economic Review, 49, 717-743, 2005.

• "Good jobs, bad jobs, and redistribution" (with Kjell Erik Lommerud and Bjørn Sandvik), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 106, 703-720, 2004.

• "Merger, partial collusion and relocation" (with Pedro Posada), Journal of Economics, 83, 243-265, 2004.

• "Bilateral monopolies and location choice" (with Kurt R. Brekke), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 34, 275-288, 2004.

• "International mergers and trade liberalisation: implications for unionised labour", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 21, 717-735, 2003.

• "Union collusion and intra-industry trade", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 20, 631-652, 2002.

• "Rent-seeking in a unionised monopoly", Economics of Governance, 3, 117-134, 2002.

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Work in progress

• "Price and quality in spatial competition" (with Kurt R. Brekke and Luigi Siciliani) [pdf]

• "Employment protection versus flexicurity: on technology adoption in unionised firms" (with Kjell Erik Lommerud) [pdf]

• "Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand" (with Kurt R. Brekke, Roberto Cellini and Luigi Siciliani) [pdf]

• "Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? The case of hospital bed-blocking" (with Tor Helge Holmås, Egil Kjerstad and Hilde Lurås) [pdf - appendix tables]

• "Mergers and capital flight in unionised oligopolies: Is there scope for a 'national champion' policy?" (with Kjell Erik Lommerud and Frode Meland) [pdf]

• "Competition and quality in health care markets: a differential-game approach" (with Kurt R. Brekke, Roberto Cellini and Luigi Siciliani) [pdf]

• "Hospital competition and quality with regulated prices" (with Kurt R. Brekke and Luigi Siciliani) [pdf]

• "Regulation, generic competition and pharmaceutical prices: Theory and evidence from a natural experiment" [pdf - tables]

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Last updated: September 2009