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Sandmo, Agnar

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April 2007.

CURRICULUM VITAE – AGNAR SANDMO

PRIVATE

Born in Tønsberg, Norway, 9 January 1938. Married, 3 children.

DEGREES

Siviløkonom, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), 1961.

Licentiat, NHH, 1966.

Dr. oecon., NHH, 1970.

POSITIONS

Høyskolestipendiat (graduate fellow), NHH, 1963-66.

Amanuensis i samfunnsøkonomi (assistant professor of economics), NHH, 1966-71.

Professor i samfunnsøkonomi (professor of economics), NHH, 1971-.

Prorektor (vice-rector), NHH, 1985 -87.

Visiting fellow, Yale University, 1964-65.

Visiting fellow, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1969-70.

Visiting professor, University of Essex, 1975-76.

Seniorforsker (senior researcher), LOS-senteret (Norwegian Research Centre in Organization and

Management), 1987-92 and 1997-2001.

Scientific advisor, SNF (Foundation for Research in Economics and Business Administration), 1993 - .

COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP ETC.

The Norwegian Research Council for Science and Humanities (NAVF); member of Social Science

Committee 1973-75, member of the Board, 1982-84.

Main Committee for Norwegian Research (Hovedkomitéen for Norsk Forskning), member 1978-81.

Committee on Research in Management and Organization (LOS-komitéen), Norwegian Research Council

for Applied Social Science (NORAS), member 1987-89.

Bank of Norway Research Council, member 1994-2002.

Research Council of Norway, Program of Research in Economics of Taxation, Chairman, 2004-.

Petroleum Price Board (Petroleumsprisrådet), member, 1976-80.

Swedish Government's Economic Commission, 1992 -93.

Government Committee on Priorities in Health Care, member, 1996-97.

Government Expert Committee on Investment Policies of the Petroleum Fund, chairman, 2004.

J. W. Eides Stiftelse, member of the Board, 1987-2007.

Econometric Society, Council member, 1984-89.

Econometric Society, Chairman of Program Committee, European Meeting, 1978.

European Economic Association, Council member, 1986-87.

European Economic Association, Member of the Executive Committee, 1988 -91.

European Economic Association, Chairman of Nominating Committee, 1992.

International Economic Association, Member of the Executive Committee, 1989-95.

International Institute of Public Finance, Member of the Board of Management, 1998-2005.

International Institute of Public Finance, Vice President, 2002-2005.

Institute for International Economic Studies, University of Stockholm, Board member, 1988-2003.

Center for Economic Studies, Universität München, Council member, 1991-. Chairman 2001-.

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CESifo Group, München, Council me mber, 2000-.

EDITORIAL AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift, editor, 1974-86.

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, member of the board of editors, 1976-2005.

Journal of Public Economics, associate editor 1973-83 and 1987-2002. Co-editor 1984-86.

European Economic Review, editor, 1986-91.

International Tax and Public Finance, associate editor, 1994-.

German Economic Review, Board of Editors, 2000-.

Journal of the European Economic Association, Advisory Board member, 2003-.

Finanzarchiv, member of Advisory Board, 2005-.

Chairman of Program Committee, Econometric Society European Meeting, 1978.

Acted as referee for, i.a., American Economic Review, Bulletin of Economic Research, Economica,

Econometrica, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Energy Journal, European Economic Review,

European Journal of Political Economy, International Economic Review, International Tax and Public

Finance, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal

of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics,

Labour Economics, Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, Norsk økonomisk tidsskrift, Oxford

Economic Papers, Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Public Finance, Public Finance Quarterly,

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics,

Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie/Journal of Economics, Økonomisk forum.

HONOURS ETC.

Econometric Society, elected fellow, 1976.

Norwegian Academy of Sciences (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi), elected member, 1984.

Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien), elected foreign member, 1985.

Academia Europa, elected member, 1988.

The Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters (Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab),

elected member, 1999.

European Economic Association, president, 1990.

NHH Prize for Outstanding Research, 1991.

Honorary Doctor (dr. philos. h.c.), University of Oslo, 1997.

Order of St. Olav (knight, first class), 1997.

NHH Prize for Outstanding Teaching, 1999.

Norwegian Research Council’s Prize for Outstanding Research (The Möbius Prize), 2002.

INVITED LECTURES

University of Oslo, Eilert Sundt Lecture, 1994.

Uppsala University, Lindahl Lectures, 1996.

Euro pean Economic Association, Presidential Address, Lisboa, 1990.

International Institute of Public Finance, Annual Congress, Opening Lecture, Cambridge MA, 1995.

International Institute of Public Finance, Annual Congress, Opening Lecture, Helsinki, 2002.

PUBLICATIONS

1967

1. "Hva vet vi om den personlige sparing? (What do we know about personal saving?)", Bergens

Privatbank s Kvartalsskrift, nr. 4, 1967, 207-221.

1968

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2. "Prisstabilitet og økonomisk vekst (Price stability and economic growth)", Sosialøk onomen, nr. 1, 1968,

10-15.

3. "Portfolio choice in a theory of saving", Swedish Journal of Economics 70, no. 2, 1968, 106-122.

4. "Elementær vekstteori (Elementary growth theory), Bedriftsøkonomen, nr. 6, 1968, 284-287.

5. "Vekstrate og vekstpolitikk (Growth rate and growth policy)", Bedriftsøkonomen, nr. 7, 1968, 340-344.

6. "Sparing og investering under sikkerhet og usikkerhet (Saving and investment under certainty and

uncertainty)", Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift 82, nr. 3, 1968, 143-163.

7. "Optimal tidsanvendelse for en rasjonell konsument (Optimal time allocation for a rational consumer)",

Markedsøkonomi , Desember 1968, 275-279.

1969

8. "Foretagens val av konkurrensmedel varderat ur konsumentsynpunkt (Firms' choice of competitive

policies from a consumer point of view)" Leif Lundvall (ed.), Konsumenten och samhället, Rabén &

Sjögren, Stockholm, 1969, 209-215.

9. "Capital risk, consumption and portfolio choice", Econometrica 37, October 1969, 586-599.

10. "Velferdsøkonomisk utsyn (Review of welfare economics)", Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift 83, nr. 4, 1969,

156-172.

1970

11. "Equilibrium and efficiency in loan markets", Economica 37, February 1970, 23-38.

12. "The effect of uncertainty on saving decisions", Review of Economic Studies 37, July 1970, 353-360.

13. "Returns to scale and the average cost curve", Swedish Journal of Economics 72, no. 2, 1970, 149-152.

14. "Den klassiske etterspørselsteoris relevans under moderne forhold (The relevance of classical demand

theory)", Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift 84, nr. 4, 1970, 139-155.

1971

15. "On the theory of the competitive firm under price uncertainty", American Economic Review 61, March

1971, 65-73.

16. "Investment and the rate of interest", Journal of Political Economy 79, November/December 1971,

1335-1345.

17. "Discount rates for public investment in closed and open economies", Economica 38, November 1971,

395-412. (With Jacques H. Dreze.) Reprinted as Chapter 8 in W. A. Niskanen et. al. (eds.), Benefit-Cost

and Policy Analysis, Aldine Publishing Co., Chicago, 1973. Also reprinted as Chapter 3 in A. C.

Harberger and G. Jenkins (eds.), Cost-Benefit Analysis, The International Library of Critical Writings in

Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2002. Also reprinted as Chapter 5 in J. D. Scheraga (ed.),

Discounting and Environmental Policy, International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy,

Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2003.

18. "Forurensningsproblemene og økonomisk politikk (Pollution problems and economic policy)",

Økonomi og politikk: Festskrift til Ole Myrvoll, Aschehoug, Oslo, 1971, 67-77.

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19. "Returns to scale and the average cost curve: Reply", Swedish Journal of Economics 73, no. 2, 1971,

261-262.

20. "Samfunnet, bedriftene og forurensningsproblemene (Society, firms and the problems of pollution)",

Bedriftsøkonomen, nr. 10 1971, 518-521.

21. “A remark on the transactions demand for money”, European Economic Review 3, March 1971,

83-90. (Pseudonym: Dr. Saschba Telphlluch; with Jacques H. Dreze.)

1972

22. ""Fixed costs" and the comp etitive firm under price uncertainty: Reply", American Economic Review

62, March 1972, 194-195.

23. "Optimality rules for the provision of collective factors of production", Journal of Public Economics 1,

April 1972, 149-157.

24. "Discount rates for public investment under uncertainty", International Economic Review 13, June

1972, 287-302. Reprinted as Chapter 7 in W. A. Niskanen et. al. (eds.), Benefit-Cost and Policy Analysis,

Aldine Publishing Co., Chicago, 1973. Also reprinted in J. H. Dreze (ed.), Allocation under Uncertainty:

Equilibrium and Optimality, Macmillan, London, 1974, 192-210.

25. "Income tax evasion: A theoretical analysis", Journal of Public Economics 1, November 1972, 323-

338. (With Michael G. Allingham.) Reprinted in M. Ricketts (ed.), Neoclassical Microeconomics, Vol. I,

Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 1988. Also reprinted in I. Ehrlich and Z. Liu (eds.), The Economics of Crime,

Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2006.

26. "Den private sparing i samfunnsøkonomisk belysning (Private saving from a social viewpoint)", Studier

i sparing og sparebankvesen i Norge, Gyldendal, Oslo, 1972, 296-314.

27. "Inntekts- og formuesutjevning i vårt økonomiske system (Income and wealth equalization in our

economic system)", Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift 86, nr. 3-4 1972, 249-265.

1973

28. "Miljøvern og avgifter - noen argumenter og misforståelser (Environmental protection and taxes -

arguments and misperceptions)", Bergens Privatbanks Kvartalsskrift, nr. 1 1973, 11-22.

29. "Public goods and the technology of consumption", Review of Economic Studies 40, October 1973,

517-528.

1974

30. "Two-period models of consumption decisions under uncertainty: A survey", J.H. Dreze (ed.);

Allocation under Uncertainty: Equilibrium and Optimality, Macmillan, London, 1974, 24-35.

31. "Investment incentives and the corporate income tax", Journal of Political Economy 82, March-April

1974, 287-302.

32. "A note on the structure of optimal taxation", American Economic Review 64, September 1974, 701-

706.

33. "Hva vil miljøvernet koste? Noen økonomiske problemstillinger (What will be the cost of

environmental protection? Some economic issues)", I forskningens lys. NAVF 25 år, Oslo, 1974, 177-191.

1975

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34. "Public goods and the technology of consumption: A correction", Review of Economic Studies 42,

January 1975, 167-168.

35. "Optimal taxation in the presence of externalities", Swedish Journal of Economics 77, no. 1 1975, 86-

98. Reprinted in L. H. Goulder (ed.), Environmental Policy Making with Prior Tax Distortions, Edward

Elgar, Cheltenham, 2002.

36. "Beskatning og effektiv ressursallokering (Taxation and efficient resource allocation)",

Bedriftsbeskatning, Norges Handelshøyskoles Kursvirksomhet, Bergen, 1975, 18-30.

1976

37. "Direct versus indirect Pigovian taxation", European Economic Review 7 , May 1976, 337-349. Also in

47.

38. "Optimal taxation: An introduction to the literature", Journal of Public Economics 6, July-August 1976,

37-54. Reprinted in Martin Ricketts (ed.), Neoclassical Microeconomics, Vol. II, Edward Elgar, Aldershot,

1988. Spanish translation as "Imposicion optima: Una introduccion a la literatura", Hacienda Publica

Espanol, no. 40, 1976, 25-38. German translation as "Optimale Besteuerung - Eine Einfuhrung in die

Literatur", M. Rose, H.-D. Wenzel & W. Wiegard (eds.), Optimale Finanzpolitik , Gustav Fischer,

Stuttgart, 1981.

1977

39. "Bedrift og samfunn - noen alternative funksjonsfordelinger (Firms and society - some alternative role

distributions)", Bedriften og dens omverden, Norges Handelshøyskoles Kursvirksomh et, Bergen, 1977,

11-20.

40. "Portfolio theory, asset demand and taxation: Comparative statics with many assets", Review of

Economic Studies 44, June 1977, 369-379.

41. "Kraftpriser, ressursbruk og komparative fortrinn (Energy prices, resource use and comparative

advantage)", Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift 91, nr. 1 1977, 55-61.

42. "Noen samfunnsøkonomiske konsekvenser av nye holdninger til arbeid og karriere (Some economic

consequences of new attitudes to work and careers)", Bedriftsøkonomen, nr. 6 1977, 306-309.

43. "Flervareproduksjon under usikkerhet (Multicommodity production under uncertainty)",

Bedriftsøkonomi i teori og praksis. Festskrift til Olav Harald Jensen, Norges Handelshøyskoles

Kursvirksomhet, Bergen, 1977, 151 -162.

44. "Some simplified formulae for optimal income taxation", Scandinavian Journal of Economics 79, no. 4,

1977, 417-423. (With Avinash Dixit.)

45. "La taxation Pigouvienne, doit -elle etre directe ou indirecte?", Cahiers du Seminaire d'Econometrie, no.

19, 1977, 57-70.

46. "Some theorems which are almost true", Revue Economique 28, Novembre 1977, 1009-1012. (With

Mervyn A. King.)

1978

47. Essays in Public Economics: The Kiryat Anavim Papers (ed.), Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and

Company, Lexington, Mass., 1978. Pp. 364.

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48. "Arbeidsmarkedet og konflikten mellom effektivitet og rettferdighet (The labour market and the

conflict between efficiency and justice)", Bedriftsøkonomen, nr. 4 1978, 182-185.

49. Mål og midler i industripolitikken (Aims and means of industrial policy), Tanum, Oslo, 1978. Pp. 75.

1979

50. "Pareto som julenisse (Pareto as Santa Claus)", Sosialøkonomen, nr. 10, 1979, 47-48. Also in

Ekonomisk Debatt, nr. 8 1983, 570-572.

51. "A note on the neutrality of the cash flow corporation tax", Economics Letters 4, no. 2 1979, 173-176.

1980

52. "Hvilken holdning bør offentlige myndigheter ha til risiko? (What attitude should public authorities

take to risk?)", Sosialøkonomen, nr. 3 1980, 25 -31.

53. "Welfare implications of the taxation of savings", Economic Journal 90, September 1980, 529-549.

(With A.B. Atkinson.)

54. "Kapitalmarkeder og ressursallokering (Capital markets and resource allocation)", NOU 1980:4,

Rentepolitikk, Vedlegg I, Oslo, 1980, 179-211. (With Kåre P. Hagen.)

55. "Prissystemer og diskontering (Price systems and discounting)", Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift 94, nr. 1

1980, 27-51.

56. "Anomaly and stability in the theory of externalities", Quarterly Journal of Economics 94, June 1980,

799-807.

57. "Byråkrati og marked i teoretisk-økonomisk belysning (Bureaucracy and markets in the light of

economic theory)", Foretak og foretaksomhet, Norges Handelshøyskoles Kursvirksomhet, Bergen, 1980,

169-180.

1981

58. "The rate of return and personal savings", Economic Journal 91, June 1981, 536-540.

59. "Utgiftsskatt (Expenditure taxation)", Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift 95, nr. 1 1981, 1-37. (With Vidar

Christiansen.)

60. "Fører vi en rasjonell investeringspolitikk? (Do we have a rational investment policy?),

Sosialøkonomen, nr. 2 1981, 17-22.

61. "Tax evasion, labour supply and the equity-efficiency tradeoff", Journal of Public Economics 16,

December 1981, 265-288.

1982

62. "Normativ beskatningsteori - problemstillinger og resultater (Normativ tax theory - problems and

results)", Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift 96, nr. 1 1982, 1-22.

63. "The optimum supply of public goods in a mixed economy", R.C.O. Matthews & G.B. Stafford (eds.),

The Grants Economy and Collective Consumption, Macmillan, London, 1982, 85-104.

64. "Gode skatteregler (Good tax rules)" E.S. Andersen & T. Greve (eds.), Bedrift og samfunn: Festskrift til

Preben Munthe, Aschehoug, Oslo, 1982, 87-94.

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1983

65. Kalkulasjonsrente og prosjektvurdering (The social rate of discount and project evaluation),

Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 1983. Pp. 144. (With Kåre P. Hagen.)

66. "Ex post welfare economics and the theory of merit goods", Economica 50, February 1983, 19-33.

67. "Progressive taxation, redistribution and labour supply", Scandinavian Journal of Economics 85, no. 3,

1983, 311-323.

68. "Leif Johansen's contribution to public economics", Journal of Public Economics 21, August 1983,

317-324.

69. "Leif Johansen 1930-1982", Econometrica 51, no. 6, 1983, 1854-1855.

70. "Internasjonale fordelingsproblemer (International distribution problems),” Einar Hope (ed.), Aktuelle

problemer i internasjonal økonomi , Bedriftsøkonomens forlag, Oslo, 1983, 104-123.

71. "Et nytt prinsipp for bedriftsbeskatning (A new principle of corporate taxation)", Statsøkonomisk

Tidsskrift 97, nr. 2 1983, 81-108. (With Vidar Christiansen).

1984

72. Effektivitet og rettferdighet. Artikler om økonomisk teori og politikk (Efficiency and justice. Articles on

economic theory and policy), Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 1984, Pp. 124.

73. "Prinsipputredning om avveining mellom direkte og indirekte beskatning (The principles of balancing

direct and indirect taxation)", NOU 1984:22, Personbeskatning, Vedlegg 1, 337-368. (With

Vidar Christiansen.)

74. "Some insights from the "new" theory of public finance", Empirica, no. 2 1984, 111-124. Also as

"Einige Erkenntnisse aus der "Neuen Finanztheorie"," Quartalshefte der GZ, IV/84 -I/85, 115-127.

1985

75. "The effects of taxation on saving and risk-taking", A.J. Auerbach & M.S. Feldstein (eds.), Handbook

of Public Economics, Vol. 1, North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1985, 265-311.

76. "Skattefusk och skatteplanering - några samhallsekonomiska synpunkter (Tax cheating and tax

planning - some economic viewpoints)", Ekonomisk Debatt 13, nr. 5 1985, 381-387.

1986

77. "Handel i tjenester. En oversikt over noen teoretiske og handelspolitiske problemstillinger (Trade in

services. A survey of some problems of theory and trade policy)", Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift 100, nr. 1,

1986, 23-47.

78. "Privatisering (Privatization)", R.J. Brunstad & E. Hope (ed.), Markedsstruktur og konkurranse,

Bedriftsøkonomens Forlag, Oslo, 1986, 117-136.

79. "Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift gjennom 100 år - en nekrolog (Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift through 100 years

- an obituary)", Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift 100, nr. 2 1986, 119-123.

80. "Valg av skattesystem i fremtiden (Choice of future tax system)" Seminar om nordisk skatte- og

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avgiftspolitikk, Nordisk Råd, Stockholm, 1986, 81-90.

1987

81. "A reinterpretation of elasticity formulae in optimum tax theory", Economica 54, February 1987, 89-96.

82. "Minnetale over professor dr. philos. Karl Henrik Borch (Speech in memory of professor dr. philos.

Karl Henrik Borch)", Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademis Årbok , 1987, 199-204.

83. "Trade in services: Theory and policy", EFTA Bulletin 28, no. 2, April-June 1987, 10-12.

84. "Public goods", J. Eatwell, M. Milgate and P. Newman (eds.), The New Palgrave, Macmillan, London,

1987, vol. 3, 1061-1066. Also in J. Eatwell, M. Milgate and P. Newman (eds.), Allocation, Information,

and Markets. Macmillan, London, 1989, 254-266.

85. "Trygve Haavelmo", The New Palgrave, Macmillan, London, 1987, vol. 2, 580.

86. "Jan Mossin 1936-1987", Sosialøkonomen, no. 9, 1987, 31-33.

87. "Comment on R.W. Jones, "Tax wedges and mobile capital"," Scandinavian Journal of Economics 89,

no. 3, 1987, 347-348.

1988

88. "The taxation of household durable goods", Finnish Economic Papers 1, no. 1, Spring 1988, 13-24.

89. "History of economic thought - the Scandinavian contribution", European Economic Review 32, 1988,

491-494.

1989

90. "Lavere moms på maten? (A lower VAT on food?)", Sosialøkonomen, nr. 1, januar 1989, 2-3.

91. "Om nøytralitet i bedrifts - og kapitalbeskatningen (On neutrality in business and capital taxation)",

NOU 1989:14, Bedrifts- og kapitalbeskatningen - en skisse til reform, Vedlegg 1, Oslo 1989, 310-334.

92. "Differential taxation and the encouragement of risk-taking", Economics Letters 31, 1989, 55-59.

1990

93. "Noen refleksjoner om public choice-skolens syn på økonomi og politikk (Some reflections on the

views of the public choice school on economics and politics)", Norsk Økonomisk Tidsskrift 104 , 1990, nr.

2, 89-112. Also as chapter 12 in 100.

94. "Tax distortions and household production", Oxford Economic Papers 42, January 1990, 78 -90.

Reprinted in P.J.N. Sinclair and M.D.E. Slater (eds.), Taxation, Private Information and Capital, Oxford

University Press, Oxford, 1991.

95. "Buchanan on political economy: A review article", Journal of Economic Literature 28, March 1990,

50-65. Reprinted in C.K. Rowley (ed.), Social Choice Theory, Vol. II, Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 1993.

1991

96. "Economists and the welfare state", European Economic Review 35, April 1991, 213-239. Norwegian

version as chapter 2 in Offentlig politikk og private incitamenter (below).

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97. "Comment: Saving, income distribution and the role of incentives", A.B. Atkinson and R. Brunetta

(eds.), Economics for the New Europe, Macmillan, London, 1991, 206-208.

98. "Social insurance and social security: A comment on Professor Atkinson's lecture", Geneva Papers on

Risk and Insurance Theory 16, no. 2, 1991, 133-135.

1992

99. "Velferdsstaten: Offentlig politikk og private incitamenter ", Norsk Økonomisk Tidsskrift 106, 1992, nr.

1, 1-15. English version as ”The welfare state: Public policies and private incentives”, Rector’s Lectures,

no. 5, Cracow Academy of Economics, Krakow, 1992.

100. Offentlig politikk og private incitamenter (Public policy and private incentives), ed. with Kåre P.

Hagen, Tano, Oslo, 1992. Pp. 325. Author of chapters 1, 2, 11, and 12.

101. "Trygd og forsikring: Organisering og incitamenter (Social and private insurance: Organization and

incentives)" chapter 11 of Offentlig politikk og private incitamenter (above), 275-298.

1993

102. "Gary Becker's contributions to economics", Scandinavian Journal of Economics 95, no. 1, 1993, 7-

23. French version “Gary Becker, prix Nobel 1992: la science économique, science de l’ensemble des

comportements humains,” Problèmes économiques, Hebdomadaire No. 2.339, 1er septembre 1993, 1-10.

103. "Optimal redistribution when tastes differ", Finanzarchiv 50, no. 2, 1993, 149-163.

104. "Ragnar Frisch on the optimal diet", History of Political Economy 25, no. 2, 1993, 313-327.

105. "Comment on Dasgupta, 'Poverty, resources and fertility'," A. B. Atkinson (ed.), Alternatives to

Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership, Macmillan, London, 1993, 244-245.

106. Nya villkor för ekonomi och politik, with Assar Lindbeck, Per Molander, Torsten Persson, Olof

Petersson, Birgitta Swedenborg and Niels Thygesen. SOU 1993:16, Stockholm. Pp. 209. English edition,

Turning Sweden Around, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994. Pp. 241.

107. "Options for economic and political reform in Sweden", with Lindbeck, Molander, Persson, Petersson,

Swedenborg and Thygesen, Economic Policy 17, October 1993, 220-263.

1994

108. "Monopsonistic wage discrimination, incentives and efficiency", Labour Economics 1, March 1994,

151-170.

109. "Et bifokalt syn på økonomisk politikk: Tilfellet Sverige (A bifocal view of economic policy: The case

of Sweden)", Stabilitet og Langsiktighet. Festskrift til Hermod Skånland, Aschehoug, Oslo, 1994, 157-174.

110. "Motivasjon, marked og etikk (Motivation, markets and ethics)", Regnskap og Ledelse. Festskrift til

Arne Kinserdal, Bedriftsøkonomens Forlag, Oslo, 1994, 365-373. Reprinted in Praktisk økonomi & finans,

nr. 1, 2003, 7-13.

111. "The scope for taxation and public expenditure in an open economy", with Vidar Christiansen and

Kåre P. Hagen, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 96, No. 3, 1994, 289-309.

112. "The tax they pay may be your own: Promotion, taxes and labour supply", Scandinavian Journal of

Economics 96, No. 4, 1994, 463-479.

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113. Perspektiv på arbeidsledigheten (Perspectives on unemployment), ed., Fagbokforlaget, Bergen, 1994.

Pp. 144. Author of Chapter 1, «Arbeidsledigheten i perspektiv» (Unemployment in perspective), 7-17.

1995

114. “Public finance and the environment”, L. Bovenberg and S. Cnossen (eds.), Public Economics and the

Environment in an Imperfect World, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1995, 19-35.

115. “Social security and economic growth”, European Institute of Social Security Yearbook 1994, Acco,

Leuven, 1995, 157-173.

116. “The welfare economics of the welfare state”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 97, No. 4,

1995, 469-476.

117. The Future of the Welfare State (ed. with T. M. Andersen and K. O. Moene), Blackwell, Oxford,

1995, pp. 197.

118. "Velferdsstaten - resultater, problemer, reformer (The welfare state - achievements, problems,

reforms)," Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Årbok 1994, Oslo, 1995, 89-102.

1996

119. ”Carl Julius Norstrøm - et faglig venneportrett (Carl Julius Norstrøm - a friend’s academic portrait)”,

S. Ekern, F. Gjesdal and A. Sandmo (eds.), Analyser og perspektiver i bedriftsøkonomi. Festskrift til Carl

Julius Norstrøm, Fagbokforlaget, Bergen, 1996, 7-12.

120. "Utfordringer for den offentlige sektor (Challenges for the public sector)," Michael Lundholm (ed.),

Utmaningar för den offentliga sektorn, Nordiska Ekonomiska Forskningsrådet, Rapport 6, Uppsala, 1996,

7-19.

121. "Foreword" to A.K. Dixit, The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction-Cost Perspective, MIT

Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1996, ix-xii.

122. "Environmental taxation", Research 1996: Annual Report and Program, Department of Economics,

Uppsala University, 1996, 11-17.

123. "Hur långt bör vi gå i utjämningen av inkomster? (How far should we go in the redistribution of

income?)", Ekonomisk Debatt 24, no. 8, 1996, 619-630.

1997

124. "Einar Hope og SNF (Einar Hope and SNF)," with Lars Mathiesen; K.P. Hagen (ed.), Deregulering og

konkurranse, Fagbokforlaget, Bergen, 1997, 189-195.

1998

125. “ Ekonomisk teori och inkomstutjämning (Economic theory and income redistribution),” Skatter och

Välfärd, Nr. 1, 1998, 70-72.

126. “Comment on P. J. Hammond and A. Villar, ‘Efficiency with non-convexities: Extending the

Scandinavian consensus approach’,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 100, No. 1, 1998, 37-40.

127. “The welfare state: A theoretical framework for justification and criticism,” Swedish Economic Policy

Review 5, No. 1, 1998, 11-33.

128. “Redistribution and the marginal cost of public funds,” Journal of Public Economics 70, December,

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1998, 365-382.

1999

129. “Taxation, migration and pollution,” with David E. Wildasin, International Tax and Public Finance 6 ,

February, 1999, 39-59.

130. “Asymmetric information and public economics: The Mirrlees-Vickrey Nobel Prize,” Journal of

Economic Perspectives 13, Winter, 1999, 165-180.

131. ”Flatere skatter? (Flatter taxes?)” NOU 1999:7, Flatere skatt, Vedlegg 1, 195-207.

132. ”Amartya Sen og velferdsøkonomien: To bidrag til forståelsen av eksterne virkninger (Amartya Sen

and welfare economics: Two contributions to the understanding of external effects),” Sosialøkonomen, no.

3, mars 1999, 14-17.

133. “The public economics of redistribution and the welfare state,” Review of Population and SocialPolicy

8, 1999, 139-154.

2000

134. “Towards a competitive society? The promotion of competition as a goal of economic policy,” E.

Hope (ed.), Competition Policy Analysis, Routledge, London, 2000, 6-19.

135. The Public Economics of the Environment, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000. Pp. x + 163.

136. “Preben Munthe som akademisk forfatter (Preben Munthe as an academic writer)”, G. Hjeltnes, G. F.

Rieber-Mohn and E. Rudeng (eds.), Ordet er fritt. En bok til Preben Munthe, Aschehoug, Oslo, 2000, 173-

194.

137. “Fantasi og teori: Kommentar til Stiglers ‘An academic episode’ (Fantasy and theory: A comment

on Stigler’s ‘An academic episode’)”, Magma 3, no. 4, 2000, 67-71.

138. “Det rike lands problemer. Noen kommentarer til Holdenutvalgets innstilling (The rich country’s

problems: Some comments on the report of the Holden Commission),” Sosialøkonomen, no. 6,

september, 2000, 16-19.

139. “Neoclassical economics and institutions,” Sosialøkonomen, no. 9, desember, 2000, 19-22.

140. Social Security in the 21st Century (ed. with B. Holmlund and E. Steigum), Blackwell, Oxford, 2000,

pp. 213.

2001

141. “Income taxes,” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier Science,

Amsterdam, 2001, vol. 11, 7273-7279.

142. “Grønne skatter og doble gevinster (Green taxes and double dividends),” Det Kongelige Norske

Videnskabers Selskab, Forhandlinger 2000, DKNVS, Trondheim, 2001, 181 -191.

143. “Offentlig tjenesteproduksjon: Teorier om (in)effektivitet (Public service production: Theories of

(in)efficiency),” Økonomisk forum 55, no. 6, september, 2001, 30-37.

2002

144. “Efficient environmental policy with imperfect compliance,” Environmental and Resource

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Economics 23, September, 2002, 85-103.

2003

145. "International aspects of public goods provision," I. Kaul et. al (eds.), Providing Global Public Goods:

Managing Globalization, Oxford University Press, Oxford , 2003, 112-130.

146. “Bridging the tax-expenditure gap: Green taxes and the marginal cost of funds,” S. Cnossen and

H.-W. Sinn (eds.), Public Finances and Public Policies in the New Millenium, MIT Press, Cambridge,

Mass., 2003, 159-178.

147. “Globalisation and the welfare state: More inequality, less redistribution?” D. Pieters (ed.),

European Social Security and Global Politics, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2003, 45 -60.

148. “Samfunnsøkonomer som skribenter (Economists as writers),” Økonomisk Forum 57, no. 6,

september, 2003, 19-21.

149. “Globalization and inequality in the welfare state: Causes and consequences,” Daniele Franco and

Alberto Zanardi (eds.), I sistemi di welfare tra decentramento regionale e integrazione europea,

FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2003, 27-46. Italian translation as “ Globalizzazione, disuguaglianza e stato sociale,”

Diritto ed economia dello stato sociale, no. 7-8, 2003, 7-26.

150. “Why do we need public health care services?” Inger Johanne Pettersen and Harald Siem (eds.), 400

Years and the Way Forward, Fagbokforlaget, Bergen, 2003, 96-103.

151. “Public provision and private incentives,” Nordic Journal of Political Economy 29, no. 2, 2003, 87-

104.

2004

152. “Striking the balance: Economics and the environment,” European Review 12, no. 1, 2004, 81-94.

153. “Adam Smith og konkurransen: Et kritisk blikk på den usynlige hånd (Adam Smith and competition:

A critical view of the invisible hand)”, Kåre P. Hagen, Agnar Sandmo and Lars Sørgard (eds.) Konkurranse

i samfunnets interesse. Festskrift til Einar Hope, Fagbokforlaget, Bergen, 2004, 140-156.

154. “Environmental taxation and revenue for development,” A. B. Atkinson (ed.), New Sources for

Development Finance, Oxford University Press, 2004, 33-57.

2005

155. “Taxation and tournaments” (with Mats Persson), Journal of Public Economic Theory 7, no. 4, 2005,

543-559.

156. “Ulikhet og omfordeling - behovet for nye perspektiver (Inequality and redistribution - the need for

new perspectives ),” Ekonomisk Debatt 33, no. 6, 2005, 21-33.

157. “The theory of tax evasion: A retrospective view,” National Tax Journal 58, no. 4, December, 2005,

643-663.

2006

158. “John Stuart Mill: Klassisk og moderne (John Stuart Mill: Classical and modern)”, Økonomisk Forum

60, no. 6, 2006, 39-50. Reprinted in Forsyning 10, no. 4, 14-25.

159. Samfunnsøkonomi - en idéhistorie (Economics - a history of ideas), Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 2006.

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Pp. 389. Second printing 2007.

160. “Hvordan kan vi løse pensjonsproblemene? (How can we solve the pension problem?)” Det Norske

Videnskaps-Akademi, Årbok 2005, Oslo 2006, 379-389.

2007

161. ”Global public economics: Public goods and externalities,” Économie Publique/Public Economics,

forthcoming.

162. ”Teoretiker og praktiker: Johann Heinrich von Thünen (Theorist and practitioner: Johann Heinrich

von Thünen),” Praktisk økonomi & finans 23, no. 1, 2007, 109-115.

163. ”Economics for peace: Léon Walras and the Nobel Peace Prize,” Journal of Economic Perspectives,

forthcoming.

2008

164. ”Public goods,” L. Blume and S. Durlauf (eds.), The New Palgrave, Second Edition , forthcoming.

(Revised end extended version of 1987 article.)

165. ”Pigouvian taxes,” L. Blume and S. Durlauf (eds.), The New Palgrave, Second Edition, forthcoming.

UNPUBLISHED DISCUSSION PAPERS

“Investment, tax incentives, and the criterion of neutrality”, NHH Department of Economics DP 6, 1980.

SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS

Gary Fromm (ed.), Tax Incentives and Public Spending, Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie 32, 1972, 378-

379.

Patricia Apps, A Theory of Inequality and Taxation, Journal of Public Economics 24, 1984, 131-133.

Jacques H. Drèze, Essays on Economic Decisions under Uncertainty, Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift für

Nationalökonomie 48, no. 1, 1988, 93-95.

Assar Lindbeck, The Swedish Experiment, Ekonomisk Debatt 26, no. 2, 1998, 147-150.

Bo Rothstein, Just Institutions Matter, Economic Journal 110, February 2000, 228-229.

James M. Buchanan and Richard A. Musgrave, Public Finance and Public Choice: Two Contrasting

Visions of the State, Economic Record 76, March 2000, 106-107.

Partha Dasgupta, Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift für

Nationalökonomie 77, no. 1, 2002, 91-93.

Erling Barth, Kalle Moene and Michael Wallerstein, Likhet under press. Utfordringer for den

skandinaviske velferdsmodellen, Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning 7, nr. 2, 2004, 112-115.

This list does not include articles on current problems and economic policy in Aftenposten, Økonomisk

Rapport, etc.