Department of Economics

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:	“Economics for peace: Léon Walras and the Nobel Peace Prize,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 21, forthcoming, 2007. 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

Last updated: 2007-04-27. Contact: Dagny Kristiansen