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E-mail:
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Alexander.Cappelen@nhh.no
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Telephone:
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+47 55 959577
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Fax:
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+47 55 959543
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Title:
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Professor
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Nationality:
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Norwegian
Curriculum Vitae
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Teaching languages:
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Norwegian, English
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Teaching areas:
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Undergraduate:
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Public Economics, Microeconomics, and Business Ethics.
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Graduate:
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Experimental Economics, Public Economics, Distributive Justice, Social Choice Theory
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Research:
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Social choice theory, Distributive Justice, Experimental Economics, Corporate Governance
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Research in progress:
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'Responsibility for what? An experimental approach to responsibility and fairness', (co-authors Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden), invited resubmission in European Economic Review.
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“Disability, freedom and responsibility”, (co-authors Ole F. Norheim and Bertil Tungodden), invited resubmission in Economics and Philosophy.
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'Inequality, tax avoidance and redistribution’, (co-author Kjetil Bjorvatn), invited resubmission in Economics of Governance.
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‘The importance of framing and self-reported data in a dictator game with production’, (co-authors Astri Drange Hole, Erik Sørensen og Bertil Tungodden). NHH Discussion paper 40/07.
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‘Measuring unfair inequality. Theory and evidence from Norwegian data’, (co-authors Ingvild Almås, Jo Thori Lind, Erik Sørensen og Bertil Tungodden). NHH Discussion Paper 32/07.
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'Fairness and the proportional principle', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), NHH Discussion Paper 31/07.
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'How should the cost of equalization be distributed', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), NHH Discussion Paper 05/06.
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'Fair tax evasion', (co-authors Erling Barth and Tone Ognedal), NHH Discussion Paper 07/06.
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‘Fairness and poverty – an international experiment’, (co-authors Karl Ove Moene, Erik Sørensen og Bertil Tungodden).
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‘Fairness and reciprocal behaviour when individuals have rational expectations’, (co-authors Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden).
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‘Development of fairness preferences in children’, (co-authors Ingvild Almås, Erik Sørensen og Bertil Tungodden)-
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‘An international debt experiment’, (co-authors Rune Jansen Hagen, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden).
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’Trusting the untrustworthy’, (co-authors Sigbjørn Birkeland, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden).
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Selected publications:
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'The challenge of a rising skill premium for redistributive taxation', (co-author Kjetil Bjorvatn), forthcoming in International Tax and Public Finance.
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'Rewarding Effort', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), forthcoming in Economic Theory.
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'Genomics and Equal Opportunity Ethics’, (co-authors Ole Frithjof Norheim and Bertil Tungodden), forthcoming in Journal of Medical Ethics.
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‘The Pluralism of Fairness Ideals: An Experimental Approach', (co-authors Astri D. Hole, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden), American Economic Review, volume 97, 2007.
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'National responsibility and the just distribution of debt relief', (co-authors Rune J. Hagen and Bertil Tungodden), Ethics and International Affairs, volume 21, 2007.
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'Redistribution and marginal productivity reward', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), Research on Economic Inequality, volume 15, 2007.
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'Local autonomy and interregional equality', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), forthcoming Social Choice and Welfare, volume 28, 2007.
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‘The liberal egalitarian paradox', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), Economics and Philosophy, volume 22, 2006.
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'Responsibility, fairness and rationing in health care ', (co-author Ole Frithjof Norheim), Health Policy, volume 76, 2006.
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'Redistribution and the nature of altruism', (co-author Kjetil Bjorvatn), Economics of Governance, volume 7, 2006.
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'Relocating the responsibility cut: Should more responsibility imply less redistribution', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), Politics, Philosophy and Economics, volume 5, 2006.
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Academic Editorial Board:
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Co-Editor Nordic Journal of Political Economy
Member of editorial board Economics and Philosophy
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Visiting professor/visiting scholar:
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CESifo, Univeristy of Munich, Fall 2007.
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Harvard University, Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health, Fall 2005.
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Summer 2003.
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Columbia University, Department of Philosophy, Fall 2000.
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Other interests/involvements:
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Associated Researcher, The Bank of Norway
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Member of the ethics council at the Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry (NHOs Etikkutvalg).
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Member of The National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH).
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Board member Stiftelsen Raftoprisens Fond.
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