Tungodden, Bertil

 

E-mail:

Bertil.Tungodden@nhh.no

Telephone:

+47 55 959261

Fax:

+47 55 959543

Title:

Professor, dr.oecon.

Nationality:

Norwegian
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English

Teaching areas:

Undergraduate:

 Development Economics, Microeconomics, Public Economics, and Behavioral Economics.

Graduate:

Development Economics, Distributive Justice, Social Choice Theory, Behavioral Economics.

Research:

 Social choice theory, Development economics, Distributive Justice, Behavioral Economics.

Research in progress:
  • The tyranny puzzle in welfare economics: An empirical investigation (co-authors Frank Cowell and Marc Fleurbaey).
  • The role of human and financial capital in microenterprise development: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania (co-authors Kjetil Bjorvatn and Lars Ivar Berge).
  • Sign regularity and the ranking of distributions (co-author Per Manne).
  • Demand for childhood vaccination: Insights from behavioural economics (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen and Ottar Mæstad).
  • Modelling Individual Choices in Experiments: Reply to Conte and Moffatt (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen Astri D. Hole, and Erik Ø. Sørensen).
  • Fairness and risk-taking: An Experimental Study, (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, James Konow and Erik Ø. Sørensen), submitted to journal.
  • Fairness and the proportionality principle (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen).
  • Fairness. Desert versus Neutrality (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen).
  • Fairness and reciprocal behaviour, (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Knut Nygaard and Erik Ø. Sørensen).
  • Trusting the untrustworthy, (co-authors Sigbjørn Birkeland, Alexander W. Cappelen, and Erik Ø. Sørensen).
  • Contracting for debt: Results from an international experiment, (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Rune Jansen Hagen, and Erik Ø. Sørensen).
  • How do social preferences relate to socio-economic history: An experiment on the ILEE-platform, (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Eva Gregersen, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Jean Robert Tyran).
  • Social preferences and the exit game, (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Trond Halvorsen and Erik Ø. Sørensen).
  • An experimental analysis of solutions for competing claims problems, (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen, Roland Luttens, and Erik Ø. Sørensen).

Selected publications:
  • “Fairness and the development of inequality acceptance”, (co-authors Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen and Erik Ø. Sørensen), Science 328(5982), 1176-1178, 2010.
  • “Sustainable recursive social welfare functions”, (co-authors Geir B. Asheim and Tapan Mitra), forthcoming, Economic Theory.
  • “Distributive interdependencies in liberal egalitarian reasoning”, (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), forthcoming, Social Choice and Welfare.
  •  "Disability Compensation and Responsibility'”, (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), forthcoming, Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
  • “Teaching business in Tanzania: Evaluating participation and performance” (co-author Kjetil Bjorvatn), forthcoming, Journal of European Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings.
  • “The tyranny of aggregation versus the tyranny of non-aggregation”, (co-author Marc Fleurbaey), forthcoming, Economic Theory.
  • “Responsibility for what? Fairness and individual responsibility”, (co-authors Alexander W. Cappelen and Erik Ø. Sørensen), European Economic Review 2010, 54(3), 429-441.
  • “On the Possibility of Non-Aggregative Priority for the Worst off”, (co-authors Marc Fleurbaey and Peter Vallentyne), Social Philosophy and Policy 2009, 26: 258-285. Simultaneously published in Utilitarianism: The Aggregation Problem, edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, 2009, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 258-285.
  •  “Equality and Priority”, in Oxford Handbook of Rational and Social Choice, edited by P. Anand, P. Pattanaik and C. Puppe, 2009, Oxford University Press, ch. 17.
  • “Rewarding Effort”, (co-author Alexander W. Cappelen), Economic Theory, 2009, 39(3): 425-441.
  • “Genomics and Equal Opportunity Ethics”, (co-authors Alexander Cappelen and Ole Frithjof Norheim), Journal of Medical Ethics, 2008, 34(5): 361-364. 
  • “Justice: Current Perspectives”, in The New Palgrave Dictionary in Economics 2nd edition. L. Blume and S. Durlauf (eds.), 2008, Palgrave Macmillian.
  • National responsibility and the just distribution of debt relief' (co-authors Alexander Cappelen and Rune Jansen Hagen), Ethics and International Affairs, 21 (1) 2007, 69-83.
  • 'Local autonomy and interregional equality' (co-authors Alexander Cappelen), Social Choice and Welfare28 (2007) 443-460.
  • 'The Pluralism of Fairness Ideals: An Experimental Approach' (co-authors Alexander Cappelen, Astri D. Hole and Erik Ø. Sørensen), American Economic Review, 97 (3) 2007, 818-827.
  • 'Relocating the responsibility cut: Should more responsibility imply less redistribution' (co-author Alexander Cappelen), Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 5 (10) 2006, 353-362.
  • 'On the Possibility of Paretian Egalitarianism', Journal of Philosophy, 2005, 102: 126-154.
  • 'Poverty Measurement: The Critical Comparison Value', Social Choice and Welfare, 2005, 25: 75-84.
  • Towards Pro-Poor Policies - Aid. Institutions, Globalization  (editor together with Nick Stern and Ivar Kolstad).  2004. World Bank and Oxford University Press.
  • 'Resolving distributional conflicts between generations',  Economic Theory, 24 (2004) 221-230.  (co-author:  Geir Asheim)
  • 'The indexing impasse: Is 'the intersection approach' a solution?' Social Choice and Welfare 22, 2004,  49-60  (co-author:  B.C. Brun)
  • 'Any non-welfarist method of policy assessment violates the Pareto-principle: A comment',  Journal of Political Economy,  December 2003, 6: 1382-1385  (co-authors:  Marc Fleurbaey and Howard Chang)
  • 'The Value of Equality', Economics and Philosophy, 2003, 19 (1): 1-44
  • 'Justifying Sustainability', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management,  2001, 2: 252-268  (co-authors G.B. Asheim and W. Bucholz).

Academic Editorial Board:

 

 

Editorial Board, Economics and Philosophy (2010 - present)

Managing coordinator, Equality Exchange (2006 - present)

Co-Editor Economics and Philosophy (2005 - 2009)

 Visiting professor/visiting scholar:

 

 

Dept. of Economics and Dept. of Philosophy, UC Berkeley, July 2009–July 2010.
CES, University of Munich, Germany, fall 2007.
Harvard University, Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health, Fall 2005.
Norad, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2003-2004.
Nuffield College, Oxford, Spring 2000.

 Other interests/involvements: