Finn Førsund
Professor

	Postal address:	Department of Economics University of Oslo P.O. Box 1095, Blindern NO-0317 Oslo, Norway
	Visiting address:	Eilert Sundt building (Reception: room 1240) Moltke Moes vei 31 NO-0851 Oslo, Norway
	Room:	ES1103
	Hours available:	By appointment
	Phone:	+47 22855132, + 47 22855127 (reception)
	Fax:	+ 47 22855035
	Email:	finn.forsund@econ.uio.no
	Homepage:	http://folk.uio.no/finnrf/

Background

CV

Teaching and tutoring

Resource economics, environmental economics

This semester: ECON4930 Electricity Economics

Special fields

Production theory and productivity, environmental and resource economics.

Ongoing and planned research projects at Department of Economics

Book on Hydropower economics for post-graduate students and researchers in the area, see Memorandum 30/2005

Selected publications

Publications

• Finn Førsund and Nikias Sarafoglou , "The tale of two research communities: The diffusion of research on productive efficiency," International Journal of Production Economics 98(1), 2005, 17-40, here
• Finn Førsund and Lennart Hjalmarsson, "Are all scales optimal in DEA? Theory and empirical evidence," Journal of Productivity Analysis 21(1), 2004, 25-48, here
• Finn Førsund and Lennart Hjalmarsson, "Calculating scale elasticities in DEA models," Journal of the Operational Research Society 55(10), 2004, 1023-1038, here
• Finn Førsund and Dag Fjeld Edvardsen, "International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities," Resource and Energy Economics 25(4), 2003, 353-371, here
• Finn Førsund, "Categorical variables in DEA," International Journal of Business and Economics 1(1), 2002, 33-43, here
• Finn Førsund and Nikias Sarafoglou, "On the origins of Data Envelopment Analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis 17, 2002, 23-40, here
• Rolf Fare, Finn Førsund, Shawna Grosskopf, Kathy Hayes and Almas Heshmati, "A note on decomposing the Malmquist productivity index by means of subvector homotheticity," Economic Theory 17(1), 2001, 239-245, here
• Finn Førsund, "The rise and fall of slacks: comments om quasi-malmquist productivity indices," Journal of Productivity Analysis 10(1), 1998, 21-34, here
• Finn Førsund, Sverre A.C. Kittelsen, "Productivity development of norwegian electricity distribution utilities," Resource and Energy Economics 20(3), 1998, 207-224
• Finn Førsund, Eric Nævdal, "Efficiency gains under exchange-rate emission trading," Environmental and Resource Economics 12(4), 1998, 403-423, here

Working papers

• Finn Førsund, "Hydropower Economics," Memorandum No.30/2005, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway, here
• Finn Førsund, Sverre A.C. Kittelsen and Frode Lindseth, "Efficiency and Productivity of Norwegian tax Offices," Memorandum No.29/2005, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway, here
• Finn Førsund and Michael Hoel, "Properties of a non-competitive electricity market dominated by hydroelectric power," Memorandum No.07/2004, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway, here
• Finn Førsund and Dag Fjeld Edvardsen, "International Benchmarking of Electricity Distribution Utilities," Memorandum No.35/2001, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway, here
• Finn Førsund and Ove Wolfgang, "The Compensation Mechanism in the RAINS Model: The Norwegian Targets for Acidification," Memorandum No.34/2001, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway, here
• Finn Førsund, "Modelling Transboundary Air Pollution: The Rains Model Approach," Memorandum No.37/1999, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway, here
• Espen Erlandsen and Finn Førsund, "Efficiency in the Provision of Municipal Nursing- and Home-Care Services," Memorandum No.32/1999, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway, here

Listings in databases

• Frida
• Bibsys