Vidar Christiansen
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:	ES1120
	Hours available:	By appointment
	Phone:	+47 22855121 (direct), + 47 22855127 (reception)
	Fax:	+ 47 22855035
	Email:	vidar.christiansen@econ.uio.no

Background

CV

Teaching and tutoring

Public economics, microeconomics

This semester: ECON4230 Microeconomic Theory

Special fields

Public economics, taxation

Selected publications

• Vidar Christiansen, "Two Approaches to Determine Public Good Provision under Distortionary Taxation," National Tax Journal 60(1), 2007, 25-43, abstract here
• Vidar Christiansen and Sören Blomquist, "The role of prices for excludable public goods," International Tax and Public Finance 12, 2005, 61-79, here
• Vidar Christiansen and Stephen Smith, "National policy interests in the duty-free market," CESifo Economic Studies 50(2), 2004, 351-375, here
• Vidar Christiansen and Sören Blomquist, "The political economy of publicly provided private goods," Journal of Public Economics 73, 1999, 31–54, here
• Vidar Christiansen, "The marginal cost of public funds under information constrained taxation," FinanzArchiv 56(2), 1999, 188-201, here
• Vidar Christiansen and Sören Blomquist, "Topping up or opting out? The optimal design of public provision schemes," International Economic Review 39(2), 1998, 399-411, 1998, here
• Vidar Christiansen and Sören Blomquist, "Price subsidies versus public provision," International Tax and Public Finance 5, 1998, 283-306, here
• Vidar Christiansen, "Normative aspects of differential, state-contingent capital income taxation," Oxford Economic Papers 47, 1995, 286-301, here
• Vidar Christiansen, "Which commodity taxes should supplement the income tax?" Journal of Public Economics 24, 1984, 195–220, here
• Vidar Christiansen, "Evaluation of public projects under optimal taxation," Review of Economic Studies 48, 1981, 447–457, here

Working papers

• Vidar Christiansen and Stephen Smith, "Optimal Commodity Taxation with Duty-Free Shopping," International Tax and Public Finance, forthcoming, here
• Vidar Christiansen and Sören Blomquist, "Public Provision of Private Goods and Nondistortionary Marginal Tax Rates," Uppsala University Working Paper 2007:7, here
• Vidar Christiansen and Sören Blomquist, "Taxation and heterogeneous preferences," CESifo Working Paper 1244, July 2004, here

Publications in Bibsys
Publications in Frida