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 :
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 S ø rgard), 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 S ø rgard), European Economic Review , 49, 717-743, 2005.
"Good jobs, bad jobs, and redistribution"
(with Kjell
Erik Lommerud and Bj ø rn 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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