E-mail:

Steinar.Ekern@nhh.no

Telephone:

+47 55 95 92 79

Fax:

+47 55 95 96 50

Title:

Professor, Ph. D., Stanford University 1973

Date of birth:

21.08.1942

Nationality:

Norwegian

Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English

Education:

Ph. D. (Business), Stanford University, 1973
M.S. (Operations Research), Stanford University, 1972

Teaching areas:

Research:

Present:

Former:

Selected publications:

• Preface: Background of the Ekern-Wilson Article, in Bengt Holmström, Paul Milgrom and Alvin E. Roth (Eds.) Game Theory in the Tradition of Bob Wilson, Berkeley Electronic Press, 2002.

• On the Theory of the Firm in an Economy with Incomplete Markets, reprinted in Bengt Holmström, Paul Milgrom and Alvin E. Roth (Eds.) Game Theory in the Tradition of Bob Wilson, Berkeley Electronic Press, 2002 (with Robert Wilson).

• Eine Analyse der Zusammenhänge zwischen Umfang und Duration von Investitionen [English: An Analysis of the Relationships between Scale and Duration of Investments], Journal für Betriebswirtschaft, vol. 48, no. 5-6, 1998, pp. 277-289 (with Michael Theil).

• Exotic Unit-Linked Life Insurance Contracts, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory, vol. 21, no. 1, June 1996, pp. 35-63 (with Svein-Arne Persson). Reprinted in Henri Loubergé & Marti G. Subrahmanyam (Eds.) Financial Risk and Derivatives, Kluwer, 1996.

• Contingent Claims Evaluation of Mean-Reverting Cash Flows in Shipping, in Lenos Trigeorgis (Ed.), Real Options in Capital Investment: Models, Strategies, and Applications, Praeger 1995 (with Petter Bjerksund).

• Managing Investment Opportunities under Price Uncertainty: From "Last Chance" to "Wait and See" Strategies, Financial Management, vol. 19, no. 3, Autumn 1990, pp. 65-83 (with Petter Bjerksund). Reprinted in Eduardo Schwartz & Lenos Trigeorgis (Eds.) Real Options and Investment under Uncertainty: Classical Readings and Recent Contributions, MIT Press, 2001.

• An Option Pricing Approach to Evaluating Petroleum Projects, Energy Economics, vol. 10, no. 2, April 1988, pp. 91-99.

• Time Dominance Efficiency Analysis, Journal of Finance, vol. 36, no. 5, December 1981, pp. 1023-34.

• Adaptive Exponential Smoothing Revisited, Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 32, 1981, pp. 775-782.

• Increasing nth Degree Risk, Economic Letters, vol. 6, 1980, pp. 329-333.

• Comparative Statics and Risk Aversion, Economic Letters, vol. 5, 1980, pp. 125-128.

• The New Soviet Incentive Model: Comment, Bell Journal of Economics, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn 1979, pp. 720-25.

• On the Inadequacy of a Probabilistic Internal Rate of Return, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, vol. 6, Summer 1979, pp. 229-237.

• Stochastic Break-Even Points, Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 30, no. 3, 1979, pp. 271-275.

• Forecasting with Adaptive Filtering: A Critical Reexamination, Operational Research Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3-ii, 1976, pp. 705-715.

• On the Theory of the Firm in an Economy with Incomplete Markets: An Addendum, Bell Journal of Economics, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 1975, pp. 388-93.

• On the Theory of the Firm in an Economy with Incomplete Markets, Bell Journal of Economics, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 1974, pp. 171-80 (with Robert Wilson).

• Taxation, Political Risk and Portfolio Selection, Economica, N.S., vol. 38, no. 152, Nov. 1971, pp. 421-30.

Research recognition:

• Listed in Who's Who in Economics, 3rd Ed. (2nd Ed.), Edward Elgar (Wheatsheaf), 1999 (1984).

Temporary affiliations:

• Scientific Advisor, Foundation for Research in Economics and Business Administration (SNF), 1984-1999.

• Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 1988/89.

• Visiting Scholar, Schools of Business, University of California Berkeley, 1980/81.

• Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellow in Management Education, 1970-73.