Jarle Møen

E-mail:

Jarle.Moen@nhh.no

Telephone:

+ 47 55 95 96 12

Fax:

+ 47 55 95 96 50

Title:

Professor, Dr. oecon., NHH 2002

Date of birth:

24.08.67

Nationality:

Norwegian

Curriculum Vitae
- In Norwegian
- In English

Research:

Teaching:

Microeconometrics, Productivity Analysis, R&D-Investments, Human Capital

Business Statistics (undergraduate)
Economics of Innovation (undergraduate and executive MBA)
Introductory econometrics (graduate)
Linear panel data models (PhD)

Research in progress:

• "International Debt Shifting: Do Multinationals Shift Internal or External Debt?" (with Guttorm Schjelderup, Dirk Schindler and Julia Tropina). WP 2011-40, University of Konstanz, Department of Economics. Under revision for Journal of Financial Economics.
• "A simple improvement of the IV-estimator for the classical errors-in-variables problem". NHH Discussion Paper FOR 2009/10 (with Jonas Andersson). Under revision for Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
• “The private returns to R&D corrected for publication bias” (with Helge Sandvig Thorsen). SNF WP 0612. Submitted. 
• “Effects of taxes and subsidies on media services” (with Hans Jarle Kind). Submitted.
• "Estimating the additionality of R&D subsidies using proposal evaluation data to control for firms’ R&D intentions" (with Morten Henningsen and Torbjørn Hægeland). Submitted.
• "Additionality of R&D subsidies: A comparison between tax credits and direct grants" (with Torbjørn Hægeland). Revised version of Statistics Norway Reports 2007/45, ch. 5.
• "Corporate returns to subsidized R&D projects: Direct grants vs tax credit financing". Revised version of Statistics Norway Reports 2007/45, ch. 6.
• "Input additionality in the Norwegian R&D tax credit scheme" (with Torbjørn Hægeland), Reports 2007/47, Statistics Norway.
• "What happens to taxable income when firms become multinational? Profit-shifting and unobserved firm specific effects" (with Julia Tropina).
• "Wages and career patterns of R&D personnel" (with Helge Sandvig Thorsen).
• "Worker Displacement and Regional Mobility" (with Kristiina Huttunen and Kjell G. Salvanes).
• "Too cool for school? Evidence of declining quality of teachers" (with Helge Sandvig Thorsen and Kjell G. Salvanes).

Selected publications in English:

• "R&D investment responses to R&D subsidies: a theoretical analysis and a microeconometric study" (with Tor Jakob Klette), World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, Vol. 9(2/3/4), 2012, 169-203. 
• "How destructive is creative destruction? Effects of displacement on labor force withdrawal, within-firm labor mobility and earnings" (with Kristiina Huttunen and Kjell G. Salvanes), Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 9(5), 2011, 840-870.
• "Capital Structure and International Debt Shifting: A Comment" (with Guttorm Schjelderup and Dirk Schindler), BETA Scandinavian Journal of Business Research, Vol. 24(2), 2010, 132-141.
• "Lean and Hungry or Fat and Content? Entrepreneurs' Wealth and Start-up Performance" (with Hans K. Hvide), Management Science, Vol. 56(8), 2010, 1242-1258.
• "Grading standards, student ability and errors in college admission" (with Martin Tjelta), Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 54(3), 2010, 221–237.
• "Evaluation of the Norwegian Tax Credit Scheme" (with Å. Cappelen, E. Fjærli, F. Foyn, T. Hægeland, A. Raknerud and M. Rybalka). Journal of Technology Management and Innovation, Vol. 5(3), 2010, 96-109.
• "Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in Norway 1980-1997" (with Arngrim Hunnes and Kjell G. Salvanes), Chapter 9 in Edward P. Lazear og Kathryn L. Shaw (eds.) An International Comparisons of the Structure of Wages, University of Chicago Press and NBER, 2008.
• "R&D spillovers from subsidized firms that fail. Tracing knowledge by following employees across firms" Research Policy, Vol. 36(9), 2007, pp. 1443-1464.
• "Should Finland Introduce an R&D tax credit?", BETA Scandinavian Journal of Business Research, No. 2, 2007, 62-72.
• "Is Mobility of Technical Personnel a Source of R&D Spillovers?" Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 23(1), 2005, 81-114. Reprinted in the International Library of Entrepreneurship series, Vol. 16, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010. 
• "Do subsidies to commercial R&D reduce market failures? Microeconometric evaluation studies" (with Tor Jakob Klette and Zvi Griliches) Research Policy, Vol. 29 (4-5), 2000, pp. 471-495.
• "From growth theory to technology policy - coordination problems in theory and practise" (with Tor Jakob Klette) Nordic Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 25 (1), 1999, pp. 53-74.
• "Trade and Development: Is South-South Co-operation a Feasible strategy?" Forum for Development Studies, No. 2, 1998, pp. 245-270.

Selected publications in Norwegian:

• "Bør den indirekte pressestøtten gis som momsfritak eller skattefradrag?" (with Hans Jarle Kind), Norsk Medietidsskrift 2013, 20(1), 29-50.
• "Gir selektive forskningssubsidier økt forskningsinnsats i næringslivet?" (with Morten Henningsen and Torbjørn Hægeland), Samfunnsøkonomen 2012(9), 48-57.
• "Overskuddflytting inn eller ut av Norge?" (with Julia Tropina), in Skjult – et hefte om skatteparadis, kapitalflukt og hemmelighold, published by Changemaker and Tax Justice Network – Norway 2012, 58-61.
• "Bør FoU-støtte rettes mot små eller store foretak?" (with Marina Rybalka). Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse 2012(7), 84-95.
• "Har kvaliteten på lærere falt over tid?" (with Kjell G. Salvanes and Helge Sandvig Thorsen). Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse 2012(6), 62-71.
• "Markedssvikt som begrunnelse for mediestøtten", Nytt norsk tidsskrift, Nr. 3, 258-267, 2011.
• "Kunnskapsstatus for hva økonomisk forskning har avdekket om flernasjonale selskapers internprising i Norge" Appendix 3, in Skatteparadis og utvikling, NOU 19, 2009 (the Schjelderup-commision’s Report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (with Balsvik, Jensen and Tropina) English translation here. Full background report here. 
• "Bør OECD-målsettingen i norsk forskningspolitikk opprettholdes?" (Should the OECD benchmark in the Norwegian R&D-policy be continued?) (with Cappelen og Hægeland) Økonomiske analyser, s. 29-37, nr. 2, 2004.
• "Vitenskapelig forskning og næringsutvikling" (Academic research and industrial growth) (with Klette), Chapter 7 in Einar Hope (ed): Næringspolitikk for en ny økonomi, Fagbokforlaget, Bergen, 2002.
• "Kunnskapsinvesteringer og økonomisk vekst" (Knowledge Investments and Economic Growth) (with Hægeland). Appendix 15 in Frihet med Ansvar, NOU 14, 2000 (the Mjøs-commission's report to the Ministry of Education).
• "Produktivitetsutviklingen i norsk industri 1980-1990 - en analyse av dynamikken basert på mikrodata" (Productivity Dynamics in Norwegian Manufacturing 1980-1990 - An Analysis Based on Microdata), Reports 21/1998, Statistics Norway.

Other interests/involvements:

• Member of the Executive Board of the Research Council of Norway, 2011-2014.
• Board member, Department of Finance and Management Science, NHH, 2010-2013.
• Board member, Centre for Ethics and Economics at NHH since 2004.
• Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, Departement of Economics, and guest at the NBER Productivity Research Group, 1999/2000.
• Research Fellow, Statistics Norway, Unit for Labour Market and Firm Behaviour, 1996-2010.
• Member of the organizing committee for the Annual Meeting for Norwegian Business Economists (FIBE), 2006-2008.
• Member of the Executive Committee for the Bachelor Program at NHH, 2005-2009.