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
- Økologisk jordbruk og
jordbrukspolitiske målsettingar, Master’s thesis, Department
of Economics, University of Bergen, 1987.
- Five
essays on incentives in procurement contracting, Dissertations in Economics no. 4, Department of Economics, University of Bergen, 1994.
International
publications
- “Promoting
fair competition in public procurement,” Journal of Public Economics,
Vol. 58 (1995), pp. 283-307.
- “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.
- "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.
- “Centralized
vs. decentralized procurement: Does local information call for
decentralized decision-making?” International Journal of
Industrial Organization, 18, 2000, 949-963.
- "Procurement
auctions with entry of bidders" [with Egil Kjerstad, SNF], International
Journal of Industrial Organization 18, 2000, 1243-1257.
- "On
private incentives to aquire household skills," Journal of
Population Economics, 14, 2001, 301-312.
- 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].
- “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].
- “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].
- “Should auctioneers supply early
information for prospective bidders?” International Journal of
Industrial Organization, 25: 597-614, 2007.
- “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.
- “M2M Call Termination – Regulation or Competition?” (with Tommy
Gabrielsen). Applied Economics
Quarterly, 54: 203-215, 2008.
- 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)
- "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.
- "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).
- “Interconnection
in Norwegian telecommunication: Competition or cooperation?” [with Tommy
Staahl Gabrielsen], Mimeo, University of Bergen.
- "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.
- "Playing monopoly with the
government: Time inconsistency of
protectionist programs revisited.” Mimeo, University of Bergen.
- “Socially sanctioned gender roles and
investment in domestic skills,” Mimeo, University of Bergen.
- "Price discrimination with uncertain
consumers,” Mimeo, University
of Bergen.
Publications in
Norwegian
- "Næringsstøtte og skjerming
i jordbruket", [med Rolf Brunstad og Erling Vårdal]. Vedlegg til NOU
21:1988.
- "Ein modell for optimal
jordbruksproduksjon i Norge", [med Rolf Brunstad, Erling Vårdal og
Berit Tennbakk]. Rapport no. 24'88,
Senter for Anvendt forskning, NHH.
- "STEINGRUNN -
Ein modell for optimalt valg av jordbruksteknologi",
Arbeidsnotat no. 33'90, Senter for Anvendt Forskning, NHH.
- "Importregulering, priser og
velferd", i Markedsstruktur, priser og konkurransepolitikk,
Rapport no. 1'89, Senter for Anvendt Forskning, NHH.
- "Markedet for bygningsisolasjon",
i Markedsstruktur, priser og konkurransepolitikk, Rapport no. 1'89,
Senter for Anvendt Forskning, NHH.
- "Numerisk modellering av
duopollikevekter", Arbeidsnotat no. 61'89, Senter for Anvendt
Forskning, NHH.
- "Optimale tiltak mot
forureining frå fossile brensel", Arbeidsnotat no. 67'89, Senter for
Anvendt forskning, NHH.
- "RAMP -
En modell for regionale arbeidsmarkedsprognoser anvendt på et norsk
fylke", [med Helge Alvin Rosfjord], Rapport no. 23'90, Senter for
Anvendt Forskning, NHH.
- "Insentiv
i vidaregåande skule", Essay til heimeeksamen i kurset
"Incomplete contracts and control:
Industrial structure and the firm", NHH 1991.
- "Ufullstendige
kontrakter og vertikal integrasjon", Essay til heimeeksamen i kurset
"Incomplete contracts and control:
Industrial structure and the firm", NHH 1991.
- "Reguleringsteori -
om metode og sentrale føresetnader", Obligatorisk essay i
vitskapsteori, Universitetet i Bergen, 1991.
- "Regionalpolitikk og
insentivproblem", Sosialøkonomen Vol. 49 (1995), nr. 3, s.18-24.
- “Effektive offentlege innkjøp -
kva kan vi lære av økonomisk teori?” LOS-notat 9707, LOS-senteret, Bergen.
- “Næringspolitikk,” i A.L.
Fimreite: Forskerblikk på Norge. Tano-Aschehoug, 1997.
- “Økonomisk politikk og
organisering,” i A.L. Fimreite: Forskerblikk på Norge.
Tano-Aschehoug, 1997.
- “Frivillighet i
samtrafikkavtaler,” [med Egil Kjerstad] SNF-rapport 63/97, Bergen.
- “Auksjonsteori og offentleg
politikk,” i G. Torsvik (Red.): Informasjonsproblem og økonomisk
organisering, Fagbokforlaget, 1998.
- “Konkurranseformer i
telesektoren: Hvordan rasjonalisere observert atferd?” [med Tommy
Gabrielsen] SNF-rapport 65/98,
1998.
- “Verdiskapende
samtrafikkavtaler: Prising av samtrafikk” [med Trond Bjørnenak og Tommy
Gabrielsen], SNF-rapport
ISBN: 82-7296-874-6.
- “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.
- “Prising av teletjenester.” I:
Ulset, Svein, red. Fra summetone til informasjonsportal. Bergen:
Fagbokforlaget; 2001. s. 123-147 [med Tommy Gabrielsen].