Bjorvatn, Kjetil

E-mail:

Kjetil.Bjorvatn@nhh.no

Telephone:

+47 55 959 585

Fax:

+47 55 959 543

Title:

Professor, dr. oecon

Nationality:

Swedish
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English

Teaching areas:

Undergraduate:

Macroeconomics, Microeconomics

Master:

Industrial economics and competition policy, Development economics

Doctoral courses:

International economics, Economic geography

Research:

Economic geography, Economic development, Fiscal federalism

Research in progress:

• "Segregation, polarization and the protection of minorities: National versus regional policy", (with Alexander W. Cappelen).
• "On the importance of openness for industrial policy design in developing countries", (with Nicola D. Coniglio).
• “Inequality, tax avoidance, and redistribution,” mimeo (with Alexander W. Cappelen).

Selected publications:

• "Destructive competition: Factionalism and rent-seeking in Iran", World Development, 36 (1) 2008, 2314-2324 (with Kjetil Selvik).
• "The challenge of a rising skill premium for redistributive taxation", International Tax and Public Finance, 2008, online version, (with Alexander W. Cappelen).
• "Policy competition for foreign direct investment between asymmetric countries, ”European Economic Review 50, 2006, 1891-1907 (with Carsten Eckel).
• “Corruption and privatization”, European Journal of Political Economy 21 (4), 2005, 903-914 (with Tina Søreide).
• "Economic integration and the profitability of cross-border mergers and acquisitions", European Economic Review 48, 2004, 1211-1226.
• "Inequality, segregation and redistribution", Journal of Public Economics,   87,  2003, 1657-1679  (with Alexander W. Cappelen).
• Tax competition and international public goods",  International Tax and Public Finance ,  9, 2002,  111-120  (with Guttorm Schjelderup).
• "Urban infrastructure and industrialization",  Journal of Urban Economics, 48, 2000, 205-218.
• "Third World regional integration"  European Economic Review, 43 (1) 1999, 47-64.
• "Taxation and migration in a federal system", International Tax and Public Finance, 5, 1998, 345-355.
• "Leviathan in a dual economy", Public Choice 84, 1995,  137-151.