Lars-Erik Borge  

• Professor, Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
• Director, Centre for Economic Research at NTNU (SØF)
• Telephone: +47 73 59 19 41 (direct line) +47 73 59 19 40 (office)
• Fax: +47 73 59 69 54
• E-mail

Curriculum Vitae

• English
• Norwegian

Research interests

• Local public finance
• Fiscal federalism
• Political economy

Recent working papers

• Myopic or constrained by balanced-budget-rules? The intertemporal spending behavior of Norwegian local governments, with Per Tovmo.
• Young and old competing for public welfare services, with Jørn Rattsø.
• Public sector efficiency: The roles of political and budgetary institutions, fiscal capacity and democratic participation, with Torberg Falch and Per Tovmo.
• Centralized or decentralized financing of local governments: Consequences for efficiency and inequality of service provision.

Articles in international journals (since 2000)

• Property taxation as incentive for cost control: Empirical evidence for utility services in Norway (WP-version), European Economic Review, forthcoming, with Jørn Rattsø.
• Efficiency potential and efficiency variation in Norwegian lower secondary schools, FinansArchiv, 2006, 62, 221-249, with Linn Renée Naper.
• Strong politicians, small deficits: Evidence from Norwegian local governments, European Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 21, 325-344.
• The relationships between costs and user charges: The case of a Norwegian utility service, FinanzArchiv, 2005, 61, 98-119, with Jørn Rattsø.
• Public employment and regional risk sharing: Norway 1977-90, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106, 215-230, with Egil Matsen.
• Income distribution and tax structure: Empirical test of the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis, European Economic Review, 2004, 48, 805-826, with Jørn Rattsø.
• Spending growth with vertical fiscal imbalance: Norway 1880-1990, Economics and Politics, 2002, 14, 351-373, with Jørn Rattsø.
• Aggregating spending preferences: An empirical analysis of party preferences in Norwegian local governments, Public Choice, 2002, 110, 225-243, with Rune J. Sørensen.
• Charging for public services: The case of utilities in Norwegian local governments, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2000, 30, 703-718.

Chapters in international books (since 2000)

• Norwegian economic national report, in R. Påhlsson (Ed.) Yearbook of Nordic Tax Research 2005: Local Taxation, Universitetsforlaget, 2005, 127-136.
• Local government budgeting and borrowing: Norway, in B. Dafflon (Ed.) Local Public Finance in Europe: Balancing the Budget and Controlling Debt, Edward Elgar, 2002, 191-208, with Jørn Rattsø.

Norwegian publications (since 2000)

• Gir mer penger bedre velferd?, Horisont, 2006, 7(1), 10-16, med Rune J. Sørensen.
• Eiendomsskatten: Statlig eller kommunal? Obligatorisk eller frivillig?, Økonomisk forum 2004, 58(9), 16-21.
• Utbyggingsavgifter: Effektiv finansiering av kommunal infrastruktur?, Økonomisk forum, 2002, 56(7), 30-35, med Torberg Falch.
• Lokal beskatningsfrihet i det norske styringsopplegget for kommunesektoren, Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning, 2001, 42, 163-189, med Fredrik Carlsen og Jørn Rattsø.
• Forholdet mellom staten og kommunesektoren: Er konsultasjoner veien å gå?, Sosialøkonomen, 2000, 54(4), 17-21.

Reports from Centre for Economic Research at NTNU (in Norwegian)

• Effektivitet og effektivitetsutvikling i kommunesektoren: Sluttrapport, Rapport 07/06, med Kjell J. Sunnevåg.
• Empirisk analyse av handlingsplanen for eldreomsorgen, Rapport 06/06, med Marianne Haraldsvik.
• Effektivitetsforskjeller og effektiviseringspotensial i pleie- og omsorgssektoren, Rapport 03/06, med Marianne Haraldsvik.
• Effektivitet og effektivitetsutvikling i kommunesektoren: Rapportering for 2005, Rapport 02/06, med Marianne Haraldsvik, Linn Renée Naper og Kjell J. Sunnevåg.
• Ressursbruk i grunnopplæringen, Rapport 01/06, med Linn Renée Naper.
• Ressurssituasjonen i grunnskolen 2002-2004, Rapport 06/05, med Linn Renée Naper.
• Effektivitet og effektivitetsutvikling i kommunesektoren: Rapportering for 2004, Rapport 05/05, med Kjell J. Sunnevåg.
• Kommunenes økonomiske tilpasning til tidsavgrensede statlige satsinger, Rapport 03/05, med Jørn Rattsø.
• Ressursbruk og tjenestetilbud i institusjons- og hjemmetjenesteorienterte kommuner, Rapport 01/05, med Marianne Haraldsvik.

Updated: 25.05.2007.