Møen, Jarle

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:

• "An optimal IV-estimator for the classical errors-in-variables problem" NHH DP FOR 2009/10 (with Jonas Andersson). Submitted.
• "Input additionality in the Norwegian R&D tax credit scheme" (with Torbjørn Hægeland), Reports 2007/47, Statistics Norway.
• "The relationship between the Norwegian R&D tax credit scheme and other innovation policy instruments" (with Torbjørn Hægeland), Reports 2007/45, Statistics Norway.
• "International Debt Shifting: Internal vs external debt" Revised version of NHH DP FOR 15/2008 (with Guttorm Schjelderup, Dirk Schindler and Julia Tropina).

• “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).

• "R&D investment responses to R&D subsidies: A theoretical analysis and a microeconometric study" (with Tor Jakob Klette). Presented at NBER Summer Institute in 1998.

Selected publications in English:

• "Lean and Hungry or Fat and Content? Entrepreneurs' Wealth and Start-up Performance" (with Hans K. Hvide), Forthcoming in Management Science.

• "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). Forthcoming in Journal of the European Economic Association.

• "Grading standards, student ability and errors in college admission" (with Martin Tjelta). Forthcoming in Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research.

• "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.

• "Should Finland Introduce an R&D tax credit?", BETA Scandinavian Journal of Business Research, No. 2, 2007, 62-72.

• "R&D spillovers from subsidized firms that fail. Tracing knowledge by following employees across firms" Research Policy, Vol. 36(9), 2007, pp. 1443-1464.
• "Is Mobility of Technical Personnel a Source of R&D Spillovers?" Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 23(1), 2005, 81-114. Forthcoming in the International Library of Entrepreneurship Series. 
• "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:

• "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. 
• "Veien mot kunnskapslandet – utfordringer for det norske utdanningssystemet", SNF Report 01/08  (with Salvanes, Hægeland, Raaum and Bjorvatn).
• "Evaluering av SkatteFUNN - Sluttrapport", Reports 2008/2, Statistics Norway (with Cappelen, Fjærli, Foyn, Hægeland, Raknerud and Rybalka).
• "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:

• 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 to present.
• 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.
• Board member, Centre for Ethics and Economics at NHH since 2004.