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:	'Responsibility for what? An experimental approach to responsibility and fairness', (co-authors Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden), invited resubmission in European Economic Review. “Disability, freedom and responsibility”, (co-authors Ole F. Norheim and Bertil Tungodden), invited resubmission in Economics and Philosophy. 'Inequality, tax avoidance and redistribution’, (co-author Kjetil Bjorvatn), invited resubmission in Economics of Governance. ‘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. ‘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. 'Fairness and the proportional principle', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), NHH Discussion Paper 31/07. 'How should the cost of equalization be distributed', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), NHH Discussion Paper 05/06. 'Fair tax evasion', (co-authors Erling Barth and Tone Ognedal), NHH Discussion Paper 07/06. ‘Fairness and poverty – an international experiment’, (co-authors Karl Ove Moene, Erik Sørensen og Bertil Tungodden). ‘Fairness and reciprocal behaviour when individuals have rational expectations’, (co-authors Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden). ‘Development of fairness preferences in children’, (co-authors Ingvild Almås, Erik Sørensen og Bertil Tungodden)- ‘An international debt experiment’, (co-authors Rune Jansen Hagen, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden). ’Trusting the untrustworthy’, (co-authors Sigbjørn Birkeland, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden).

Selected publications:	'The challenge of a rising skill premium for redistributive taxation', (co-author Kjetil Bjorvatn), forthcoming in International Tax and Public Finance. 'Rewarding Effort', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), forthcoming in Economic Theory. 'Genomics and Equal Opportunity Ethics’, (co-authors Ole Frithjof Norheim and Bertil Tungodden), forthcoming in Journal of Medical Ethics. ‘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. 'National responsibility and the just distribution of debt relief', (co-authors Rune J. Hagen and Bertil Tungodden), Ethics and International Affairs, volume 21, 2007. 'Redistribution and marginal productivity reward', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), Research on Economic Inequality, volume 15, 2007. 'Local autonomy and interregional equality', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), forthcoming Social Choice and Welfare, volume 28, 2007. ‘The liberal egalitarian paradox', (co-author Bertil Tungodden), Economics and Philosophy, volume 22, 2006. '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, volume 5, 2006.

Academic Editorial Board:
	Co-Editor Nordic Journal of Political Economy Member of editorial board Economics and Philosophy

Visiting professor/visiting scholar:
	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:
	Associated Researcher, The Bank of Norway 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.