Steinar Strøm
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:	1144
	Phone:	+47 22855153, + 47 22855127 (reception)
	Fax:	+ 47 22855035
	Email:	steinar.strom@econ.uio.no
	Homepage:	http://folk.uio.no/steinast

Background

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Teaching and tutoring

Microeconomics, Microeconometrics, Labor Market, Industrial Organization and Public Economics

Special fields

Microeconometrics, Labor market, Taxation, Industrial Organization

Ongoing and planned research projects at Department of Economics

• A stochastic framework for assessing labor supply elasticities and tax reforms
• Expected and rank-dependent utility maximization
• Labor supply, labor market dynamics and sectoral choice
• Labor supply when tax evasion is an option
• Occupational pensions and labor market mobility
• Early retirement, social norms and company characteristics
• Retirement in Norway and Italy
• Labor supply, Norwegian nurses; are they overcompensated?
• Road pricing and transport economics
• Market for pharmaceuticals

Selected publications

Publications

• Labor Supply in Italy: An Empirical Analysis of Joint Household Decisions, with Taxes and Quantity Constraints", Ugo Colombino, steinar Strøm and Rolf Aaberge, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol 14, 403-422. 1999
• Early Retirement and Economic Incentives, E. Hernæs, marte Sollie and Steinar Strøm, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol 102, 3, 481-502, 2000
• Labor Supply Responses and Welfare Effects from Replacing Current Tax Rules by a Flat Tax: Empirical Evidence from Italy, Norway and Sweden", Ugo Colombino, Steinar Strøm and Rolf Aaberge, Journal of Population Economics, Vol 13, 4, 2000, 595-622.
• Progressive taxes and the Labour Market- Is the Trade-Off between Equality and Efficiency Inevitable?, Knut Røed and Steinar Strøm, Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol 16, 2002, No1, 77-110.
• Pension systems and labor force participation in the Nordic countries, Fredrik Haugen,Erik Hernæs and Steinar Strøm in T. Ihori and T. Tachibanaki (eds). Social Security Reform in Advanced Countries, 206-235, Routledge, London and New York, 2002.
• Do more equal slices shrink the cake? An empirical investigation of tax-transfers reform proposals in Italy, Rolf Aaberge,Ugo Colombino and Steinar Strøm, Journal of Population Economics, Vol 17, 2004, 767-785
• Taxes, transfers, labor supply and household welfare, Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino and Steinar Strøm, in T. Boeri, D. Del Boca and C. Pissarides (eds): Women at Work, Oxford University Press, 2005, 205-236.
• The shadow economy in Norway 1980-2003: Some empirical evidences from voluntary sample surveys, Kari Due Andresen, Tone Ognedal and Steinar Strøm, in C. Bajada and F. Schneider (eds): Size, causes and consequences of the underground economy, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, England and Burlington, USA, 139-156
• Utility of income as a random function: Behavioral characterization and empirical evidence, John K. Dagsvik,Zhyiang Jia and Steinar Strøm, Mathematical Social Science, Vol 51 nr 1, 23-57
• Sectoral labor supply, choice restrictions and functional form, John K. Dagsvik and Steinar Strøm, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol 22, 2006,
  -The pharmaceutical market in Norway, Dag Morten Dalen and Steinar Strøm in L. Sørgård (ed): Competition and Welfare: The Norwegian Experience. Bergen: Konkurransetilsynet 2006. ISBN 9788299747202. s. pp 51-70
  -“Price regulation and generic competition in the pharmaceutical market”, Dag Morten Dalen, Tonje Haabeth and Steinar Strøm, European Journal of Health Economics, Vol 7, No3,2006, 208-214
• Retirement in non-cooperative and cooperative families, Erik Hernæs, Zhyiang Jia and Steinar Strøm, in K. Hamada and H. Kato (eds): Ageing and the labor market, Edgar Elgar, 2007, 159-182.

Working papers

• Erik Hernæs, John Piggott, Tao Zhang and Steinar Strøm
  The Determinants of Occupational Pensions
  ISSN: 0809-8832, 2006
• Øystein Jørgensen, Tone Ognedal and Steinar Strøm
  Labor supply when tax evasion is an option
  ISSN: 0801-1117, 2004
• Ugo Colombino, Erik Hernæs, Zhyiang Jia and Steinar Strøm
  Retirement in Italy and Norway. 51pp.
  ISSN: 0801-1117, 2003
  -John K. Dagsvik, Marilena Locatelli, and Steinar Strøm: Simulating labor supply behavior when workers have preferences for job opportunities and face nonlinear budget constraints. ISSN: 0809-8832, No 2
  
  Listings in databases

• Frida
• Bibsys