Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge

E-mail:

Lars.Ivar.Berge@nhh.no

Lars Ivar O. Berge

Telephone:

+47 559 59251
+47 951 28 059

Fax:

+47 559 59543

Title:

Assistant Professor, PhD

Nationality:

Norwegian

Teaching languages:

  

Teaching areas/Courses:

Development Economics
Research:

Development economics; Microfinance & Entrepreneuship
Research in progress:
  • The role of human and financial capital in microenterprise development: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania (co-authors: Kjetil Bjorvatn and Bertil Tungodden). NHH Discussion Paper 1/2011.
  • Business training in Tanzania: From research driven experiment to local implementation (co-authors: Kjetil Bjorvatn, Kartika Sari Juniwaty and Bertil Tungodden).
  • Measuring spillover effects from business training: Evidence from a field experiment among microentrepreneurs.
  • Group composition and group dynamics: Evidence from a lab experiment with microfinance clients (co-authors: Kartika Sari Juniwaty and Linda Helgesson Sekei).
Visiting Scholar & Field Work:

2010: Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley (shorter stay)
2009: Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), Tanzania  (shorter stay)
2008: Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), Tanzania
2007 -2008: Department of Economics,  University of Lausanne, Switzerland (one semester)
 
Other Involvements: Associated Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI)