Curriculum Vitae    —    Steinar Vagstad

(Updated February 2010)

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Date of birth:                May 22, 1963

Civil Status:                  Married, 2 children

Citizenship:                   Norwegian

Address:                       Department of Economics, University of Bergen,

Fosswinckelsgate 14, N-5015 Bergen, Norway.

Phone:                          +47 55 58 92 27 / +47 55 58 92 00

Telefax:                        +47 55 58 92 10

 

 

HIGHER EDUCATION

 

Cand. Mag. degree (Bachelor's degree), University of Bergen, 1984

subjects:  mathematics, physics, informatics, statistics and economics.

Cand. Polit. degree (Master's degree), University of Bergen, 1987

subject:  economics

specialization: agricultural economics

Dr. Polit. (equivalent of Ph.D.), University of Bergen, 1994

title of thesis:  Five essays on incentives in public procurement

specialization:  contract theory, regulation theory

 

 

PREVIOUS AND PRESENT POSITIONS

 

1987 – 1989:   Research Fellow;  Centre for Applied Research, The Norwegian School of

                        Economics and Business Administration

1989 - 1990:    Researcher;  Centre for Applied Research, The Norwegian School of Economics

                        and Business Administration

1990 -1993:     Stipendiat (Research Fellow);  Norwegian Research Council for Science and the

                        Humanities (NAVF)

1993 - 1994:    Stipendiat (Research Fellow);  LOS Centre, University of Bergen

1994 - 1997:    Researcher, LOS Centre, University of Bergen

1997 - 2001:    Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bergen

2001 –        :    Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bergen

1998 –        :    Research Fellow (≤20%), Center for Research in Economics and Business

                        Administration

2007–        :     Editor, Norsk Økonomisk Tidsskrift

2007–        :     Editor, Samfunnsøkonomen

2009–2010:     Head of department, Department of economics, University of Bergen

2009-2010:      Leader, Nasjonalt fagråd for samfunnsøkonomi

2009-2013:      Leader, Det sentrale valgstyret for Universitetet i Bergen

 
RESEARCH VISITS

1992                1 year               Stanford University

1993                3 weeks           International Summer School on "The New Views on the

                                                 Economics of the Firm", Wallerfangen/Saar

1993                2 weeks           Stanford University

1994                2 weeks           Center for Economic Studies (München)

1994                3 weeks           International Summer School on "The new economics of

                                                 organizations", Wallerfangen/Saar

1995                2 weeks           CERGE-EI (Prague)

1995                3 weeks           University of Bonn

1995                2 weeks           Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

1998                2 weeks           Freie Universität, Berlin

1999                4 weeks           Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

1999                2 weeks           Freie Universität, Berlin

2001                3 weeks           Universidad de Alicante

2002                2 weeks           Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

2003/2004       1 year               UC Berkeley

 

 

 

EXTERNAL PRESENTATIONS (since 1993)

European Economic Assocoation (EEA), Helsinki, August/September 1993: Investment observability and regulatory commitment.

Workshop in Mathematical Economics/Game Theory, København, January 1994: Infor-mation rent and technology choice in a regulated firm.

EARIE, Chania/Kreta, September 1994.  Promoting fair competition in public procure-ment.

EARIE, Chania/Kreta, September 1994.  Procurement auctions with entry of bidders.

University of Bergen, September 1994:  Information and the holdup problem.

Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education — Economic Institute (CERGE-EI), Prague, February 1995: Information and the holdup problem.

University of Bonn, April 1995: Procurement auctions with entry of bidders.

University of Bonn, April 1995: Information rent and the holdup problem: Is private information prior to investment valuable?

EARIE, Juan-les-Pins, Frankrike, September 1995: Information rent and technology choice in a regulated firm.

University of Bergen, October 1995:  Centralization vs. decentralization: Does local information call for decentralized decision-making?

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, October 1995: Procurement auctions with entry of bidders.

University of Bergen, January 1996: Procurement auctions with entry of bidders.

European Economic Assocoation (EEA), Istanbul, August 1996: Procurement auctions with entry of bidders and Information rent and the hold-up problem: Is private information prior to investment valuable?

Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), Istanbul, August 1996: Information rent and the hold-up problem: Is private information prior to investment valuable?

EARIE, Wien, September 1996: Investors facing opportunistic governments: Is it really good to “know the market” before investing?

European Public Choice Society, Prague, April 1997: Investors facing opportunistic governments: Is it really good to “know the market” before investing?

Econometric Society European Meeting, Toulouse, August 1997: Mommy tracks and public policy: Self-fulfilling prophesies and gender gaps in promotion.

European Society of Poulation Econimists, Amsterdam, June 1998: Acquisition of household production skills: private incentives vs. efficiency.

Econometric Society World Congress, Seattle, August 2000: Consumer heterogeneity and pricing on a duopoly with switching costs.

Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), Lausanne, August 2001: Should auctioneers supply early information to prospective bidders?

CEPR Conference in Applied Industrial Organization, Bergen, May 2002: Why is On-Net Traffic Cheaper than Off-Net Traffic?

European Society of Poulation Econimists, Bilbao, June 2002: Double burdens and leisure gaps as effects of shorter working hours?

EARIE, Madrid, September 2002: On how size and composition of customer bases affect equilibrium in a duopoly with switching costs.

UC Berkeley, February 2004: Self-inflicted gender differences in pay?

HECER (Helsinki Center for Economic Research), December 2004: “Should auctioneers supply early information for prospective bidders?”

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Monographies

  1. Økologisk jordbruk og jordbrukspolitiske målsettingar, Master’s thesis, Department of Economics, University of Bergen, 1987.
  2. Five essays on incentives in procurement contracting, Dissertations in Economics no. 4, Department of Economics, University of Bergen, 1994.

 

International publications

  1. “Promoting fair competition in public procurement,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 58 (1995), pp. 283-307.
  2. “Information rent and technology choice in a regulated firm,” in Picot, A. and E. Schlicht (Eds.): Firms, Markets, and Contracts — Contributions to Neo-Institutional Economics, Corrected 2nd printing, Physica-Verlag, 1997.
  3. "Investors facing opportunistic governments: Is it really good to “know the market” before investing?” [with Michaela Erbenová, CERGE-EI, Prague], Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
  4. “Centralized vs. decentralized procurement: Does local information call for decentralized decision-making?” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 18, 2000, 949-963.
  1. "Procurement auctions with entry of bidders" [with Egil Kjerstad, SNF], International Journal of Industrial Organization 18, 2000, 1243-1257.
  2. "On private incentives to aquire household skills," Journal of Population Economics, 14, 2001, 301-312.
  3. Consumer heterogeneity, incomplete information and pricing in a duopoly with switching costs. Information Economics and Policy, 5(3): 384-401, 2003 [with Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen, University of  Bergen].
  4. “On how size and composition of customer bases affect equilibrium in a duopoly with switching costs.” Review of Economic Design, 9: 59-71, 2004 [with Tommy Gabrielsen].
  5. “Education and completed fertility in Norway.” In Gustafsson, Siv; Kalwij, Adriaan (Eds.) Education and Postponement of Maternity, European Studies of Population, Vol.15. Springer Verlag, 2006 [with Øivind Anti Nilsen and Ghazala Naz].
  6.  “Should auctioneers supply early information for prospective bidders?” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 25: 597-614, 2007.
  7. “Why is on-net traffic cheaper than off-net traffic? Access markup as a collusive device?” (with Tommy Gabrielsen). European Economic Review, 52: 99–115, 2008.
  8. “M2M Call Termination – Regulation or Competition?” (with Tommy Gabrielsen). Applied Economics Quarterly, 54: 203-215, 2008.
  9.  Access pricing in agricultural markets with regulated downstream competition and upstream externalities (with Kristin Linnerud), European Review of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming.

 

Working papers (in English)

  1. "Judo Economics in the Norwegian Cement Market:  The entrant as a Puppy Dog" [with Lars Sørgard]. Working Paper no. 69'89, Centre for Applied Research, The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen.
  2. "The incumbent's choice of technology:  An illustration from the Norwegian cement market"  [with Lars Sørgard]. Working Paper no. 0993, Department of Economics, University of Bergen. An earlier version is printed as Chapter 6 in Lars Sørgard’s Ph.D. dissertation (defended at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 1993).
  3. “Interconnection in Norwegian telecommunication: Competition or cooperation?” [with Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen], Mimeo, University of Bergen.
  4. "Mommy tracks and public policy: On self-fulfilling prophesies and gender gaps in promotion" [with Kjell Erik Lommerud, UiB], Working Paper 06/2000, Department of Economics, University of Bergen. Invited second resubmission, Journal of Labor Economics.
  5. "Playing monopoly with the government:  Time inconsistency of protectionist programs revisited.” Mimeo, University of Bergen.
  6. “Socially sanctioned gender roles and investment in domestic skills,” Mimeo, University of Bergen.
  7. "Price discrimination with uncertain consumers,” Mimeo, University of Bergen.

 

 

Publications in Norwegian

  1. "Næringsstøtte og skjerming i jordbruket", [med Rolf Brunstad og Erling Vårdal]. Vedlegg til NOU 21:1988.
  2. "Ein modell for optimal jordbruksproduksjon i Norge", [med Rolf Brunstad, Erling Vårdal og Berit Tennbakk].  Rapport no. 24'88, Senter for Anvendt forskning, NHH.
  3. "STEINGRUNN  -  Ein modell for optimalt valg av jordbruksteknologi", Arbeidsnotat no. 33'90, Senter for Anvendt Forskning, NHH.
  4. "Importregulering, priser og velferd", i Markedsstruktur, priser og konkurransepolitikk, Rapport no. 1'89, Senter for Anvendt Forskning, NHH.
  5. "Markedet for bygningsisolasjon", i Markedsstruktur, priser og konkurransepolitikk, Rapport no. 1'89, Senter for Anvendt Forskning, NHH.
  6. "Numerisk modellering av duopollikevekter", Arbeidsnotat no. 61'89, Senter for Anvendt Forskning, NHH.
  7. "Optimale tiltak mot forureining frå fossile brensel", Arbeidsnotat no. 67'89, Senter for Anvendt forskning, NHH.
  8. "RAMP  -  En modell for regionale arbeidsmarkedsprognoser anvendt på et norsk fylke", [med Helge Alvin Rosfjord], Rapport no. 23'90, Senter for Anvendt Forskning, NHH.
  9. "Insentiv i vidaregåande skule", Essay til heimeeksamen i kurset "Incomplete contracts and control:  Industrial structure and the firm", NHH 1991.
  10. "Ufullstendige kontrakter og vertikal integrasjon", Essay til heimeeksamen i kurset "Incomplete contracts and control:  Industrial structure and the firm", NHH 1991.
  11. "Reguleringsteori  -  om metode og sentrale føresetnader", Obligatorisk essay i vitskapsteori, Universitetet i Bergen, 1991.
  12. "Regionalpolitikk og insentivproblem", Sosialøkonomen Vol. 49 (1995), nr. 3, s.18-24.
  13. “Effektive offentlege innkjøp - kva kan vi lære av økonomisk teori?” LOS-notat 9707, LOS-senteret, Bergen.
  14. “Næringspolitikk,” i A.L. Fimreite: Forskerblikk på Norge. Tano-Aschehoug, 1997.
  15. “Økonomisk politikk og organisering,” i A.L. Fimreite: Forskerblikk på Norge. Tano-Aschehoug, 1997.
  16. “Frivillighet i samtrafikkavtaler,” [med Egil Kjerstad] SNF-rapport 63/97, Bergen.
  17. “Auksjonsteori og offentleg politikk,” i G. Torsvik (Red.): Informasjonsproblem og økonomisk organisering, Fagbokforlaget, 1998.
  18. “Konkurranseformer i telesektoren: Hvordan rasjonalisere observert atferd?” [med Tommy Gabrielsen]  SNF-rapport 65/98, 1998.
  19. “Verdiskapende samtrafikkavtaler: Prising av samtrafikk” [med Trond Bjørnenak og Tommy Gabrielsen], SNF-rapport ISBN: 82-7296-874-6.
  20. “Problemstillinger for videre forskning på prising av teletjenester” [med Kenneth Fjell, Øystein Foros, Tommy Gabrielsen og Kåre Petter Hagen], SNF-rapport ISBN: 82-7296-978-5, 1999.
  21. “Prising av teletjenester.” I: Ulset, Svein, red. Fra summetone til informasjonsportal. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget; 2001. s. 123-147 [med Tommy Gabrielsen].