Sverre Grepperud,
Professor (health economics)

Sverre Grepperud took his cand.oecon. degree at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo, in 1990. Grepperud was an university research fellow from 1990-95, a visting scholar at University of California, Davis in 1994. Later in the period from 1995 to 1997 he worked as a researcher at the Research Department at Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå) and from 1997 until 1999 he worked as researcher economist at the ProSus - Program for Research and Documentation for a Sustainable Society,
Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo.

Grepperud worked as an researcher economist at the Health Economics Research Programme at the University of Oslo (HERO), Institute of Health Management and Health Economics, in the period from January 2000 until February 2005. Grepperud`s present position is as associate professor in economics at Institute of Health Management, University of Oslo.

Fields of academic interest:

Recent international publications:

• Grepperud, S. (1995): Soil Conservation and Governmental Policies; Does Aid Weaken the Incentives for Arresting Erosion? Agricultural Economics 12, 129-140.

• Grepperud, S. (1996): Population Pressure and Land Degradation: The Case of Ethiopia, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 30, 18-33. Also available in: Opschorr, J.S., Button, K. and P. Nijkamp (eds.) Environmental Analysis and Economic Policy 5 158-73 (1999) Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Massachusetts: Elgar.

• Grepperud, S. (1997): Soil Conservation as an Investment in Land, Journal of Development Economics 54, 455-67.

• Grepperud, S. (1997): The Impact of Policy on Farm Conservation Incentives in Developing Countries. What can be learned from theory?" Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 36/1, 59-80.
   
  

• Grepperud, S. (1997): Poverty, Land Degradation and Climatic Uncertainty, Oxford Economic Papers 49, 586-608.

• Gjerde, J., S. Grepperud and S Kverndokk (1999): Optimal Climate Policy under the Possibility of Catastrophes, Resource and Energy Economics 21, 289 – 317.

• Grepperud, S. (2000):  Optimal Soil Depletion with Price and Output Uncertainty, Environment and Development Economics 5, 221 – 240.
   
  

• Grepperud, S. (2002): Voluntary Environmental Agreements: Bargaining over more than Emissions, European Journal of Political Economy 18, 545-559

• Grepperud, S. and P. A. Pedersen (2003): Voluntary Environmental Agreements – Taking up Positions and Meeting Pressure, Economics and Politics 15, 303-21.

• Grepperud, S. and H. Wiig (2003): A CGE Model with Endogenous Soil Fertility: Maize Trade Liberalization vs. Fertilizer Subsidies in Tanzania, in F. Columbus (ed.): Politics and Economics of Africa, Volume 4, Nova Science, New York, 31- 56.

• Grepperud, S. and P.A. Pedersen (2004): Negotiated Agreements and the Demand for Political Legitimacy. In A. Baranzini and P. Thalmann (eds.): Voluntary Agreements and Commitments in Climate Policy, Edward Elgar.

• Grepperud, S. and I. Rasmussen (2004): A General Equilibrium Assessment of Rebound Effects. Energy Economics 26: 261-282.

• Botten, G., S. Grepperud and S. M. Nærland (2004): Trading Patients: Lessons from Scandinavia. Health Policy 69, 317-327.

• Grepperud, S. (2004): Medical errors: Responsibility and Informal Penalties. Harvard Health Policy Review 5 (1): 89-95.

• Grepperud, S. (2005): Medical Errors: Mandatory Reporting, Voluntary Reporting, or Both? European Journal of Law and Economics 20: 99 - 112.  

• Gjerde, J., S. Grepperud and  S Kverndokk (2005): On Adaptation and the Demand for Health. Applied Economics 37: 1283-1301.

• Grepperud, S. (2005): Medical Errors: Getting the Incentives Right. International Journal of Health Care Finance      and Economics 5: 307-326.

• Grepperud, S. and P. Pedersen (2006): Crowding-Effects and Work Ethics. Labour 20 (1): 125-138.

• Grepperud, S. (2007): Optimal prevention when informal penalties matter: The case of medical errors. Revised and resubmitted to Berkeley Electronic Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy.

• Grepperud, S. (2007): Environmental voluntary behaviour and crowding-out effects: regulation or laissez-faire? Forthcoming: European Journal of Law and Economics.