31.03.2025 Daniel Vasconcellos Archer Duque
Essays on Economics of Education
Supervisor: Alexander L. P. Willén
Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, Masaryk University

29.11.2024 Eirik Berger Abel
Essays on Equality, Intergenerational Mobility and Family Formation
Supervisor: Kjell Gunnar Salvanes
Placement: Researcher, Statistics Norway (SSB)

11.11.2024 Ingvild Lindgren Skarpeid
Understanding Stress and Redistributive Choice: Evidence from Three Economic Experiments
Supervisor: Erik Ø. Sørensen

22.10.2024 Monica Beeder
Three essays on conflict and ethnic tensions
Supervisor: Kjetil Bjorvatn
Placement: Lecturer, University of Southampton

26.09.2024 Akshay Arun Moorthy
Essays on the formation and identification of economic preferences
Supervisor: Bertil Tungodden
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Lausanne

23.08.2024 Daniel Carvajal-Zuniga
Essays on Group Identity and Economic Behavior
Supervisor: Bertil Tungodden
Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, Aalto University

20.08.2024 Alina Ozhegova
Essays in Industrial Organization of Spatially Differentiated Markets
Supervisor: Morten Sæthre and Mateusz Mysliwski
Placement: Assistant Professor, Aalto University

10.06.2024 Arne Nasgowitz
Essays on Poverty and Economic Development
Supervisor: Kjetil Bjorvatn
Placement: Researcher, Centre for Applied Research (SNF)

04.09.2023 Pablo Ignacio Soto Mota
Essays on Unethical Behaviour
Supervisor: Mathias P. Ekström
Placement: Assistant Professor, El Colegio de México

29.08.2023 Alessandro Pizzigolotto
The Impact of Banking Crises and Natural Disasters on Households
Supervisor: Katrine V. Løken
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Copenhagen

02.06.2023 René Karadakic
Causes and Consequences of Economic Inequality
Supervisors: Aline Bütikofer and Alexander L. P. Willén
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health

30.05.2023 Kjetil Røiseland Madland
Three Chapters on Fairness Preferences 
Supervisor: Bertil Tungodden
Placement: Analyst, The Norwegian Tax Administration

24.05.2023 Sara Abrahamsson
Essays on Empirical Labor and Health Economics
Supervisors: Aline Bütikofer and Kjell G. Salvanes
Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Fertility and Health (CeFH), Norwegian Institute of Public Health

10.01.2023 Oda K. Storstad Sund
Essays on Inequality Acceptance and Meritocracy
Supervisor: Bertil Tungodden
Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, CREED, University of Amsterdam

15.12.2021 Mirjam Wentzel
Three Economic Essays on Victimization and Social Policies from Childhood to Retirement
Supervisor: Katrine V. Løken
Placement: Researcher, Institute for Social Research (ISF)

25.10.2021 Charlotte Evensen
Three chapters in industrial organization
Supervisor: Hans Jarle Kind
Placement: Economist, Oslo Economics

17.09.2021 Olav Syrstad
Essays in international finance
Placement: Norges Bank

03.09.2021 Thor Andreas Aursland
Essays on Business Cycles and Macroeconomic Policy
Supervisor: Gernot Doppelhofer
Placement: Researcher, SSB

26.04.2021 Fehime Ceren Ay
Essays on Information Preferences and Morality
Supervisor: Erik Ø. Sørensen
Placement: Researcher, Telenor Research

19.03.2021 Stefan Meissner
Essays on Information and Fairness
Supervisor: Alexander W. Cappelen
Placement: Analyst, Factworks GmbH

05.06.2020 Sandra Halvorsen
Essays on household decision-making and women’s labor supply in Ethiopia
Supervisor: Kjetil Bjorvatn

17.04.2020 Timothy Wyndham
Essays on Industrial Organisation
Supervisor:  Hans Jarle Kind
Placement: Teacher of Economics and Business at King Edward's School, Birmingham

11.05.2020 Ole-Andreas E. Næss
Essays in Political Economy
Supervisor: Eirik G. Kristiansen
Placement: Post-doc, Centre for Applied Research (SNF)

04.12.2019 Erling Risa
Essays on Intergenerational Mobility
Supervisor: Kjell Gunnar Salvanes

24.09.2019 Ranveig Falch
Essays on Inequality Acceptance
Supervisor: Kjell Gunnar Salvanes
Placement: Post-doc, NHH

30.09.2019 Xiaogeng Xu
Decision making on behalf of others
Supervisor: Erik Ø. Sørensen
Placement: Post-doc researcher, Hanken School of Economics

12.06.2019 Ingar Kyrkjebø Haaland
Essay on Beliefs and Political Behavior
Supervisor: Alexander Cappelen
Placement (first position): University of Bergen

26.11.2018 Charlotte Ringdal
Essays on Women´s bargaining Power and Household decision-making
Supervisor: Bertil Tungodden
Placement (first position): University of Amsterdam

02.11.2018 Oddmund Berg
Empirical essays on the dynamics of consumption and savings
Supervisor: Gernot Doppelhofer
Placement (first position): Statistics Norway (SSB)

25 06.2018 Serhat Ugurlu
Essays in Economic Measurement and Consumer Behavior
Supervisor: Ingvild Almås
Placement (first position): University of Essex

15.06.2018 Luca Picariello
Essays on Talent Discovery and Allocation
Supervisor: Eirik Gaard Kristiansen
Placement (first position): University of Naples Federico II, Naples

05.06.2018 Ingrid Hoem Sjursen
Essays on Behavioral Development Economics
Supervisor:  Bertil Tungodden
Placement (first position): Centre for Applied Research at NHH (SNF)

04.06.2018 Øivind Schøyen
Legitimacy under Dual Moralities
Supervisor:  Bertil Tungodden
Placement (first position): Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

16.03.2018 Antonio Dalla Zuanna
Essays in Empirical Labor Economics
Supervisor:  Kjell G. Salvanes
Placement (first position): Centre for Applied Research at NHH (SNF)

31.08.2017 Kristina Maria Persson
Essays on behavioural change
Supervisor: Erik Ø. Sørensen
Placement (first position): Oslo Economics

23.02.2017 Arild Sæther (Dr. Philos defense)
Samuel Pufendorf: The Grandfather of Modern Political Economy?
Professor Emeritus University of Agder

20.01.2017 Ole-Petter Moe Hansen
Essays in Empirical Economics
Supervisor: Gernot Doppelhofer
Placement (first position): NHH

09.09.2016 Sebastian Fest
Choice and Attitudes towards Inequality
Supervisor: Alexander W. Cappelen
Placement (first position): University of Stavanger

01.09.2016 Simen Aardal Ulsaker
On vertical restraints: Essays in Industrial Organization
Supervisor: Lars Sørgard
Placement (first position): NHH

09.06.2016 Jan Erik Meidell
Occupational structure in England and Wales during the industrial revolution
Supervisor:  Liam Brunt
Placement (first position): SmartSeal, Switzerland

02.06.2016 Julia Tropina Bakke
Essays on Multinational Firms and Profit-shifting
Supervisors: Jarle Møen (Principal supervisor) and Ragnhild Balsvik
Placement (first position): The Norwegian Tax Administration

25.04.2016 Helge Sandvig Thorsen
Essays on production of knowledge capital
Supervisor: Kjell G. Salvanes
Placement (first position): Norwegian Petroleum Directorate

17.03.2016 Susanna Sten Gahmberg
Essays on Human Capital Accumulation
Supervisor: Kjell G. Salvanes
Placement (first position): NHH

17.12.2015 Grant McDermott
Water. Energy. Climate. Essays in Empirical Environmental Economics
Supervisor: Øivind Anti Nilsen
Placement (first position): University of California, Santa Barbara

25.11.2015 Tunç Durmaz
Essays in Energy, Environment and Technology
Supervisor: Fred Schroyen 
Placement (first position): City University of Hong Kong

28.09.2015 Darina P. Steskal
Essays on Urban Wage Premium, Returns to Internal Migration and Migrants' Selection in Norway
Supervisor: Kjell G. Salvanes
Placement (first position): Uni Research Rokkan Centre

25.09.2015 Ágnes Kovács
Essays on Households' Intertemporal Resource Allocation
Supervisor: Krisztina Molnár
Placement (first position): Nuffield College at the University of Oxford

16.06.2015 Elias Braunfels
Political Institutions, Economic Institutions, and Economic Growth
Supervisor: Gernot Doppelhofer
Placement (first position): NHH

04.05.2015 Magne K. Asphjell
Irreversibility, uncertainty and inaction of firms and individuals
Supervisor: Øivind Anti Nilsen
Placement (first position): Oslo Economics

16.01.2015 Morten Sæthre
On Input Markets and Incentives: Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization
Supervisor: Lars Sørgard
Placement (first position): NHH

17.12.2014 Lars Christian Bruno
Essays on technological progress in East Asia
Supervisor: Stig Tenold
Placement (first position): BI (Norwegian Business School)

12.12.2014 Katrine Holm Reiso
Young unemployed, single mothers and their children
Supervisor: Øivind Anti Nilsen
Placement (first position): Norwegian Competition Authority

10.10.2014 Eirin Mølland
Teen Fertility and Family Planning
Supervisor: Kjell G. Salvanes
Placement (first position): NHH

27.06.2014 Alief A. Rezza
Essays on Trade and Environmental Regulations
Supervisor: Øivind Anti Nilsen
Placement (first position): Statoil

24.03.2014 Lukas Laffers
Essays in Partial Identification
Supervisor: Gernot Doppelhofer
Placement (first position): Matej Bel University (Banska Bystrica, Slovakia)

29.11.2013 Hege Medin
Sunk export costs: How they influence firms' export decisions and international trade
Supervisor: Ragnhild Balsvik
Placement (first position): NUPI

06.06.2013 Bjørn-Atle Reme
Essays in strategic interaction
Supervisor:  Lars Sørgard and Bertil Tungodden
Placement (first position): Telenor Research

04.06.2013 Kartika Sari Juniwaty
Essays in Development Economics
Supervisor: Kjetil Bjorvatn
Placement (first position): Statistics Indonesia

31.05.2013 Trond U. Halvorsen
Moral motivation in dictator games
Supervisor: Alexander W. Cappelen
Placement (first position): Sintef

03.05.2013 Harald Nygård Bergh
Four essays on Media and Entertainment Economics
Supervisor: Hans Jarle Kind
Placement (first position): Oslo Economics

19.08.2011 Knut Nygaard
Essays on investment decisions
Supervisor: Bertil Tungodden
Placement (first position): BI (Norwegian School of Management)

21.06.2011 Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge
Entrepreneurship in development: Four essays on microfinance and business training
Supervisor: Kjetil Bjorvatn
Placement (first position): NHH

20.06.2011 Sigbjørn Birkeland
Essays on behavioural game theory.
Supervisor: Bertil Tungodden
Placement (first position): Storebrand

25.03.2011 Georg Fredrik L. Rabl
Three essays on nonlinearities in monetary policy
Supervisor: Jan Tore Klovland
Placement (first position): Nærings- og fiskeridepartementet (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries)

22.11.2010 Monica Værholm
Essays on Norwegian economic and trade policy 1912-1939: the consequence of war and crisis on state and policy.
Supervisor: Stig Tenold
Placement (first position): Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt (Norwegian Defence Research)

18.11.2010 Karl Ove Aarbu
Empirical essays on risk taking and insurance
Supervisor: Fred Schroyen
Placement (first position): Tryg

01.10.2010 Anna Birgitte Milford
Cooperatives and competition in local coffee markets: the case of Chiapas, Mexico
Supervisor: Kjetil Bjorvatn
Placement (first position): NILF (Norsk Institutt for landbruksøkonomisk forskning)

21.05.2010 Eva Benedicte Norman
Essays on agglomerations and economic policy
Supervisor: Jan I. Haaland
Placement (first position): SNF (Centre for Applied Research at NHH)

26.03.2010 Sturla F. Kvamsdal
Spatial analysis in Fisheries Economics
Supervisor: Rögnvaldur Hannesson
Placement (first position): NHH

05.02.2010 Tor Hugo Hauge
An empirical analysis of a discriminatory, closed, simultaneous, multi-object auction
Supervisor:  Rögnvaldur Hannesson
Placement (first position): 

30.10.2009 Jørn Inge Halvorsen
Essays on economic fluctuations in an open economy
Supervisor: Øivind Anti Nilsen
Placement (first position): BI (Norwegian School of Management)

16.01.2009 Nils-Arne Ekerhovd
Essays on the Economics of Shared Fishery Resources
Supervisor: Rögnvaldur Hannesson
Placement (first position): SNF (Centre for Applied Research at NHH)

26.06.2008 Ingvild Almås
Essays on Economic Inequality
Supervisor: Bertil Tungodden
Placement (first position): NHH

13.06.2008 Jan Gaute Sannarnes
Essays on Common Agency and on Regulation of a Natural Network Monopoly
Supervisor: Kåre P. Hagen
Placement (first position): SNF (Centre for Applied Research at NHH)

25.04.2008 Christian Venneslan
Industrial development in Norway 1896-1939 - In view of Historical National Accounts
Supervisor:  Ola H. Grytten
Placement (first position):

01.02.2008 Lars Fredrik Øksendal
Essays in Norwegian Monetary History, 1869-1914
Supervisor: Ola H. Grytten
Placement (first position): NHH

25.01.2008 Kristin Linnerud
Essays on optimal regulation: information asymmetry, adverse selection and screening
Supervisor: Rögnvaldur Hannesson
Placement (first position):

27.09.2007 Dag Rønningen
Essays on technological changes and older workers labor force participation, social assistance transfers to individuals, and capital meaurement
Supervisor: Kjell G. Salvanes
Placement (first position):

27.09.2007 Karin Monstad
Essays on the economics of health and fertility
Supervisors: Fred Schroyen and Kjell G. Salvanes
Placement (first position): University of Bergen

17.08.2007 Astri Drange Hole
Responsibility and justice: An experimental approach
Supervisor: Bertil Tungodden
Placement (first position): Bergen University College

15.06.2007 Christian Andersen
Essays on electricity networks and regulation
Supervisor: Einar Hope
Placement (first position): SNF (Centre for Applied Research at NHH)

14.06.2007 Gorm Andreas Grønnevet
Essays on empirical industrial organization
Supervisor: Frode Steen
Placement (first position): Telenor Research

01.06.2007 Wenche Iren Sterkeby
Essays on social security: risk sharing, early retirement and redistribution
Supervisor: Agnar Sandmo
Placement (first position):

26.03.2007 Ragnhild Balsvik
Foreign direct investment and host-country effects
Supervisor: Jan I. Haaland
Placement (first position): NHH

12.03.2007 Arngrim Hunnes
Essays on wage structure and worker mobility within firms
Supervisor: Kjell G. Salvanes
Placement (first position): NHH

24.11.2006 Odd Helge Fjeldstad
Tax evasion and fiscal corruption. Essays on compliance and tax administrative practices in East and South Africa
Supervisor: Karl Rolf Pedersen
Placement (first position): CMI 

12.06.2006 Tina Søreide
Business corruption: incidence, mechanisms, and consequences
Supervisor: Kjetil Bjorvatn
Placement (first position): CMI

13.01.2006 Per Sandberg
Some economic aspects of relevance for harvest rules for marine fish stocks - A perspective from the Northeast Atlantic
Supervisor: Rögnvaldur Hannesson
Placement (first position): Institute of Marine Research

12.01.2006 Erik Ø. Sørensen
Essays on the production of Human Capital
Supervisor: Kjell G. Salvanes
Placement (first position): University of Mannheim

08.10.2005 Linda Nøstbakken
Essays on the economics of fisheries management
Supervisor: Trond Bjørndal
Placement (first position): SNF (Centre for Applied Research at NHH)

29.01.2005 Elisabeth Bjørsvik
Offentlige tjenester i Norge 1830-1865 innenfor rammen av historiske nasjonalregnskaper
Supervisor: Ola H. Grytten
Placement (first position):

29.10.2004 Annette Alstadsæter
Tax effects on educational and organizational choice
Supervisor: Agnar Sandmo
Placement (first position): Statistics Norway

26.08.2004 Jostein Skaar
Market power and storage in electricity markets
Supervisor: Einar Hope
Placement (first position): SNF (Centre for Applied Research at NHH)

05.03.2004 Anne Wenche Emblem
Compensation if ill: in cash and in kind. Essays on Health Insurance
Supervisor: Agnar Sandmo
Placement (first position): University of Agder