Three NHH researchers promoted to full Professor
This summer, Floris Zoutman, Ivan Belik, and Geir D. Berentsen were promoted to full Professor at NHH.
Floris Zoutman is a Professor at the Department of Business and Management Science.
All three newly promoted professors have made significant contributions to their fields and meet the strict criteria for promotion, which include a substantial body of internationally recognized research. Their work spans topics from taxation and political economy to business analytics and simulation models, to advanced statistical methods with applications in finance and climate research.
Floris Zoutman
Floris Zoutman is a Professor in public economics at the Department of Business and Management Science. He joined NHH as a postdoctoral researcher in 2013 and holds a PhD in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
His research interests include optimal taxation, political competition, and social insurance.
For promotion to professor, candidates are required to have at least eight publications in recognized scientific journals. The committee evaluated nine of Zoutman's papers.
Selected publications in leading journals include:
- “Optimal Taxation with Multiple Incomes and Types”, forthcoming in Theoretical Economics (with K. Spiritus, E. Lehmann, S. Renes)
- “The big short (interest): Closing the loopholes in the dividend-withholding tax”. Accepted at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (with Elisa Casi, Evelina Gavrilova, David Murphy)
Ivan Belik is a Professor at the Department of Strategy and Management.
Ivan Belik
Ivan Belik is a Professor of Business Analytics at the Department of Strategy and Management. He earned his PhD from NHH’s Department of Business and Management Science in 2016. His research focuses on business analytics, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches and practical applications that bridge theory and practice.
Ivan has submitted 11 full-length articles, four of which are published in level 2 (the highest level in the Norwegian journal classification system). In 2024, he was awarded the NHH publication bonus together with NHH Professor Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen.
Selected publications in leading journals include:
- “A case for simulated data and simulation-based models in organizational network research”. In Research Policy (with Bhattacharya, P., & Knudsen, E. S.)
- “Stability in turbulent times? The effect of digitalization on the sustainability of competitive advantage”. In Journal of Business Research (with Knudsen, E. S., Lien, L. B., Timmermans, B., and Pandey, S.)
Geir Drage Berentsen is a Professor at the Department of Business and Management Science.
Geir Drage Berentsen
Geir Drage Berentsen is a Professor at the Department of Business and Management Science. He joined NHH in 2019 as an assistant professor. His research interests include count time series, longitudinal data and spatial models with applications in finance, medicine and econometrics.
In 2024, Berentsen and Professor Håkon Otneim received an award for their excellent teaching. They are also active in the research centre Climate Futures.
Berentsen has submitted 15 scientific papers, well above the minimum norm of 8-12 full-length journal papers. Seven papers are published in level 2 journals and more have received a “revise and resubmit” decision at level 2 outlets. Nine papers have been published or submitted since 2021, underlining that his work is at the research frontier.
Selected publications in leading journals include:
- “Portfolio allocation under asymmetric dependence in asset returns using local Gaussian correlations”. In Finance Research Letters (with Sleire, A. D., Støve, B., Otneim, H., Tjøstheim, D., and Haugen, S. H.)
- “Modelling clusters of corporate defaults: Regime-switching models significantly reduce the contagion source”. In Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics (with Bulla, J., Maruotti, A., and Støve, B.)