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Steinar Vagstad

| Stilling: | Professor |
| Kontor: | 412 |
| Adresse: | Fosswinckelsgate 14, 5007 Bergen, Norway |
| Telefon: |
| Kontor: | (+47) 55 58 92 27 |
| Mobil: | (+47) 414 79 185 |
| Privat: | (+47) 55 95 09 35 |
| E-post: | steinar.vagstad@econ.uib.no |
Biography
Born 1963. Dr. polit. 1994 (University of Bergen). Professor of
Economics since 2001. Full CV in
PDF.
Main research interests
- Population Economics
- Contract theory
- Regulation
- Industrial organization
Recent teaching
- Political economy
- Regulation
- Industrial Organization
- Population Economics
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
Selected international publications
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M2M Call Termination – Regulation or Competition?,
Applied Economics Quarterly, 54: 203-215,
2008 (with Tommy Gabrielsen).
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Why is on-net traffic cheaper than off-net traffic? Access
markup as a collusive device? (with Tommy
Gabrielsen). European Economic Review, 52:
99–115, 2008.
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Should auctioneers supply early information for prospective
bidders? International Journal of Industrial
Organization, 25: 597-614, 2007.
- Education and completed fertility in Norway. In Gustafsson,
Siv; Kalwij, Adriaan (Eds.)
Education and Postponement of Maternity,
European Studies of Population, Vol. 15. Springer Verlag,
2006 (with Øivind Anti
Nilsen and Ghazala Naz).
- On
how size and composition of customer bases affect equilibrium in a
duopoly with switching costs. Review of Economic
Design, 9: 59-71, 2004 (with Tommy
Staahl Gabrielsen).
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Consumer heterogeneity, incomplete information and pricing in a
duopoly with switching costs. Information Economics and
Policy, 5(3): 384-401, 2003 (with Tommy
Staahl Gabrielsen).
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On private incentives to aquire household skills.
Journal of Population Economics,14, 2001,
301-312.
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Procurement auctions with entry of bidders.
International Journal of Industrial Organization,
18, 2000, 1243-1257 (with Egil
Kjerstad).
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Centralized vs. decentralized procurement: Does dispersed
information call for decentralized decision-making?
International Journal of Industrial Organization,
18, 2000, 949-963.
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Investors facing opportunistic governments: Is it really good to
"know the market" before investing?
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 101, 1999,
459-475 (with Michaela
Erbenová).
- Information rent and technology choice in a regulated firm. In
E. Schlicht and A. Picot (eds): Firms, Institutions and
Markets -- Contributions to Neo-Institutional Economics.
Physica-Verlag, 1996.
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Promoting fair competition in public procurement.
Journal of Public Economics, 58, 1995,
283-307.
- Five essays on incentives in procurement
contracting. University of Bergen, Dissertations in
Economics, No. 4, 1994.
Selected publications in Norwegian
- Prising av teletjenester. I Svein Ulset (red.) Fra
summetone til informasjonsportal. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget,
2001. (Med Tommy Gabrielsen.)
- Auksjonsteori og offentleg politikk. I Gaute Torsvik (red.):
Informasjonsproblem og økonomisk
organisering. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, 1998.
- Økonomisk politikk og organisering. I Anne Lise Fimreite
(red.) Forskerblikk på Norge. Oslo:
Tano-Aschehoug, 1997.
- Næringspolitikk. I Anne Lise Fimreite (red.)
Forskerblikk på Norge. Oslo: Tano-Aschehoug,
1997.
- Regionalpolitikk og insentivproblem.
Sosialøkonomen, 49 (3), 18-24, 1995.
- Næringsstøtte og skjerming i jordbruket.
NOU 1988 Norsk økonomi i forandring.
Vedlegg 8, 375-395. (Med Rolf Brunstad og Erling Vårdal.)
- Økologisk jordbruk og jordbrukspolitiske
målsettingar . Hovudoppgåve i
sosialøkonomi, Institutt for økonomi, Universitetet i
Bergen, 1987.
Work in progress
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