Cappelen, Alexander

E-mail:

Alexander.Cappelen@nhh.no

Telephone:

+47 55 959577

Fax:

+47 55 959543

Title:

Professor

Nationality:

Norwegian
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English

Teaching areas:

Undergraduate:

Public Economics, Microeconomics, and Business Ethics.

Graduate:

Experimental Economics, Public Economics, Distributive Justice, Social Choice Theory

Research:

Social choice theory, Distributive Justice, Experimental Economics, Corporate Governance

Research in progress:
  • ‘Rich meet poor – an international experiment’, (co-authors Karl Ove Moene, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden), invited resubmission Journal of the European Economic Association.
  • ‘Measuring unfair inequality. Theory and evidence from Norwegian data’, (co-authors Ingvild Almås, Jo Thori Lind, Erik Sørensen og Bertil Tungodden), invited resubmission Journal of Public Economics.
  • Caring for distant future generations’, (co-author Bertil Tungodden)
  • “Demand for childhood vaccination: Insights from behavioural economics” (co-authors Ottar Mæstad and Bertil Tungodden).
  • ‘Certification and ethical production’, (co-author Tone Ognedal).
  • Fairness. Desert versus Neutrality (co-author Bertil Tungodden).
  • 'Fairness and reciprocal behaviour', (co-authors Knut Nygaard, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden).
  • ‘Prisoners and social preferences’, (co-authors Sigbjørn Birkeland, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden).
  • Contracting for debt: Results from an international experiment, (co-authors Rune Jansen Hagen, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden).
  • ‘How do social preferences relate to socio-economic history: An experiment on the ILEE-platform’, (co-authors Eva Gregersen, Erik Ø. Sørensen, Bertil Tungodden and Jean Robert Tyran).
  • ‘An experimental analysis of solutions for competing claims problems’, (co-authors Roland Luttens, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden).
  • ‘Sharing willingly: A study of the role of fairness and information in the dictator game’, (co-authors Trond Halvorsen, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden).
  • ‘Health care and neutrality’, (co-author Bertil Tungodden).
  • ‘Modelling Individual Choices in Experiments: Reply to Conte and Moffatt’, (co-authors Astri Drange Hole, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden).  NHH Discussion Paper 07/09.
  • ‘Just Luck: An Experimental Study of Risk Taking and Fairness’, (co-authors James Konow, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden). NHH Discussion Paper 4/10.
  • 'Fairness and the proportional principle', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), NHH Discussion Paper 31/07.
  • 'Segregation, radicalization and the protection of minorities: National versus regional policy', (co-author Kjetil Bjorvatn), SNF working paper 10/06.
  • 'Fair tax evasion', (co-authors Erling Barth and Tone Ognedal), NHH Discussion Paper 07/06.

Selected publications:
  •  ‘Fairness and the development of inequality acceptance’, (co-authors Ingvild Almås, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden), Science 328(5982), 1176-1178, 2010.
  • 'Distributive interdependencies in liberal egalitarianism', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare.
  • ‘Disability, freedom and responsibility”, (co-authors Ole F. Norheim and Bertil Tungodden), forthcoming in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
  • 'The challenge of a rising skill premium for redistributive taxation', (co-author Kjetil Bjorvatn), forthcoming in International Tax and Public Finance.
  • 'Responsibility for what? An experimental approach to responsibility and fairness', (co-authors Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden), European Economic Review 2010, 54(3), 429-441.
  • 'Rewarding Effort', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), Economic Theory, 2009, 39(3): 425-441.
  • 'Genomics and Equal Opportunity Ethics’, (co-authors Ole Frithjof Norheim and Bertil Tungodden), Journal of Medical Ethics, 2008, volume 34, 361-364.
  • ‘The Pluralism of Fairness Ideals: An Experimental Approach', (co-authors Astri D. Hole, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden), American Economic Review, 2007, 97(3): 818-827.
  • 'National responsibility and the just distribution of debt relief', (co-authors Rune J. Hagen and Bertil Tungodden), Ethics and International Affairs, 2007, volume 21.
  • 'Redistribution and marginal productivity reward', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), Research on Economic Inequality, 2007, volume 15, 1-6.
  • 'Local autonomy and interregional equality', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), Social Choice and Welfare, 2007, 28(3): 443-460.
  • ‘The liberal egalitarian paradox', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), Economics and Philosophy, 2006, 22(3): 393-408.
  • 'Responsibility, fairness and rationing in health care ', (co-author Ole Frithjof Norheim), Health Policy, volume 76, 2006.
  • 'Redistribution and the nature of altruism', (co-author Kjetil Bjorvatn), Economics of Governance, volume 7, 2006.
  • 'Relocating the responsibility cut: Should more responsibility imply less redistribution', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2006, 3: 353-362.
  • 'Responsibility in health care – a liberal egalitarian approach', (co-author Ole Frithjof Norheim) in Journal of Medical Ethics 31, 2005. Reprinted in Ethical Issues In Modern Medicine, (eds. Arras, J. D. et al), McGraw Hill, 2007.
  • 'Two approaches to stakeholder identification' in Journal for Business, Economics and Ethics, nr 3, 2004.
  • 'Inequality, Segregation, and Redistribution', (co-author Kjetil Bjorvatn) in Journal of Public Economics, 2003, volume 87, number 7-8.
  • 'Reward and responsibility – how should we be affected when others change their effort', (co-author Bertil Tungodden) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2003, 2 (2): 191 - 211.

Academic Editorial Board:

 

 
  • Member of the editorial board Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, 2007 – present.
  • Member of editorial board Economics and Philosophy 2007 - present.
  • Co-Editor of Nordic Journal of Political Economy, 2004 - present.

 Visiting professor/visiting scholar:

 

 
  • University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2009 and Spring 2010
  • CESifo, Univeristy of Munich, Fall 2007.
  • Harvard University, Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health, Fall 2005.
  • Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Summer 2003.
  • Columbia University, Department of Philosophy, Fall 2000.

 Other interests/involvements:

 

 
  • Program director, Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration, 2008 – present.
  • Senior Advisor on corporate governance; The Bank of Norway 2005 – 2008.
  • Head of centre for ethics and economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 2001–2005.
  • Coordinator of the web-site on egalitarianism, http://mora.rente.nhh.no/projects/EqualityExchange/
  • Member of the ethics council at the Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry (NHOs Etikkutvalg).
  • Member of The National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH).
  • Board member Stiftelsen Raftoprisens Fond.