Agnar Sandmo

E-mail:

Agnar.Sandmo@nhh.no

Telephone:

+47 55 959 276

Fax:

+47 55 959 543

Title:

Professor, dr. oecon.

Nationality:

Norwegian
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English

Teaching areas:

Undergraduate:

Microeconomics

Master:

Economic policy, Economics of the public sector. History of economic thought

Research:

 

Present:

Public economics, Environmental economics

Former:

Economics of uncertainty

Selected publications:
  • "León Walras and the Nobel Peace Prize," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 4 (2007) 217-228.
  • Samfunnsøkonomi - en idéhistorie (Economics - a history of ideas), Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 2006. Pp. 389. Second printing 2007.
  • “The theory of tax evasion: A retrospective view,” National Tax Journal 58, no. 4, December, 2005, 643-663.
  • “Taxation and tournaments” (with Mats Persson), Journal of Public Economic Theory 7, no. 4, 2005, 543-559.
  • "International aspects of public goods provision," I. Kaul et. al (eds.), Providing Global Public Goods: Managing Globalization, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, 112-130.
  • The Public Economics of the Environment, Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x + 163.
  • "Redistribution and the marginal cost of public funds", Journal of Public Economics, 70, 1998, 365-382.
  • "Economists and the welfare state", European Economic Review 35, 1991, 213-239.
  • "The effects of taxation on saving and risk-taking", A.J. Auerbach & M.S. Feldstein (eds.), Handbook of Public Economics, Vol. I, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1985, 265-311.
  • "Tax evasion, labour supply and the equity-efficiency tradeoff",Journal of Public Economics, 16, 1981, 265-288.
  • "Welfare implications of the taxation of savings", Economic Journal, 90, 1980, 529-549. (With A.B. Atkinson.)
  • "Portfolio theory, asset demand and taxation: Comparative statics with many assets", Review of Economic Studies, 44, 1977, 369-379.
  • "Discount rates for public investment under uncertainty", International Economic Review, 13, 1972, 287-302.
  • "On the theory of the competitive firm under price uncertainty", American Economic Review, 61, 1971, 65-73.
  • "Capital risk, consumption and portfolio choice", Econometrica, 37, 1969, 586-599.

Academic Editorial Board:

 

 

European Economic Review, editor, 1986-91.
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, associate editor, 1976-.
Journal of Public Economics, associate editor 1973-83 and 1987-2002. Co-editor 1984-86.
International Tax and Public Finance, associate editor 1994-.
German Economic Review, Board of Editors, 2000-
Journal of the European Economic Association, Board of Advisors, 2003-

Visiting professor/visiting scholar:

 

 

Yale University 1964-65.
CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1969-70.
University of Essex, 1975-76.

Other interests/involvements:

 

 

International Institute of Public Finance, Vice President
CESifo, Munich. Council Member
CES, University of Munich, Council Chairman
European Economic Association, former President