Eirik Gaard Kristiansen

E-mail:

Eirik.Kristiansen@nhh.no

Telephone:

+47 55 959278

Fax:

+47 55 959543

Title:

Professor, dr. oecon

Nationality:

Norwegian
Curriculum Vitae
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Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English


Teaching areas:

Undergraduate:
Graduate:

Microeconomics
Financial contracts, Economics of Information, Microeconomics, Industrial Economics


Research:

Industrial organization, contract theory, financial intermediation, corporate finance, strategic investments in R&D.


Work in progress:

  • 'Management of knowledge workers' (with Hans K. Hvide).
  • 'Communication of Soft Information to Lenders: Credibility and Reputation'  (with Jay Pil Choi and Jae Nahm)
  • 'Strategic product pre-announcements in markets with network effects' (with Jay Pil Choi and Jae Nahm).

Selected publications:

  • “Financial Contracting under Imperfect Enforcememt” (with Tore Ellingsen) forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics.
  • “Vaporware” (with Jay Pil Choi and Jae Nahm) forthcoming International Economic Review.
  • 'Life-Cycle Patterns of Interest Rate Markups in Small Firm Finance' (with Moshe Kim and Bent Vale) forthcoming The Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
  • "Endogenous product differentiation in credit markets: what do borrowers pay for?" (with Moshe Kim and Bent Vale), Journal of Banking and Finance, 2005, pp. 681-699. 
  • "R&D and buyers' waiting option", Journal of Industrial Economics vol. 56, 2006, pp. 31 – 43. 
  • "Risk taking in selection contests" (with Hans K. Hvide)  Games and Economic Behavior  42, (2003)  172-181.
  • "R&D in the Presence of Network Externalities: Timing and Compatibility" RAND Journal of Economics, 29, (1998) p. 531-547.
  • “R&D in Markets with Network Externalities", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 14, (1996) p. 769-784.

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