Steinar Vagstad

Associate professor. Born 1963. Dr. polit. 1994 (University of Bergen).

Telephone, office: (+47) 55589227
Telephone, private: (+47) 55953988
Mobile phone: (+47) 414 79 185 (from outside of the university);
                       81735 (from inside)
E-mail: Steinar.Vagstad@econ.uib.no

Recent Teaching

• Regulation
• Industrial Organization
• Population Economics
• Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics

Research Interest

• Population Economics
• Contract theory
• Regulation
• Industrial organization

Selected Publications

• "Consumer heterogeneity, incomplete information and pricing in a duopoly with switching costs," Information Economics and Policy, forthcoming (with Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen).
• "On private incentives to aquire household skills," Journal of Population Economics,14, 2001, 301-312.
• "Procurement auctions with entry of bidders," International Journal of Industrial Organization, 18, 2000, 1243-1257 (with Egil Kjerstad).
• "Centralized vs. decentralized procurement: Does dispersed information call for decentralized decision-making?" International Journal of Industrial Organization, 18, 2000, 949-963.
• "Investors facing opportunistic governments: Is it really good to "know the market before investing?" Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 101, 1999, 459-475 (with Michaela Erbenová).
• "Information rent and technology choice in a regulated firm."In E. Schlicht and A. Picot (eds): Firms, Institutions and Markets -- Contributions to Neo-Institutional Economics. Physica-Verlag, 1996.
• "Promoting fair competition in public procurement," Journal of Public Economics, 58, 1995, 283-307.
•  Five essays on incentives in procurement contracting. University of Bergen, Dissertations in Economics, No. 4, 1994.

Work in Progress

• "Should auctioneers supply early information for prospective bidders?" WP 0701, Department of Economics, University of Bergen.
• "Price discrimination with uncertain consumers," Mimeo, Department of Economics, University of Bergen.
• "Mommy tracks and public policy: On self-fulfilling prophecies and gender gaps in promotion," WP 0600, Department of Economics, University of Bergen (with Kjell Erik Lommerud).
• "Playing monopoly with the government: Time inconsistency of industrial policy revisited," Mimeo, Department of Economics, University of Bergen.
• "On how size and composition of customer bases affect equilibrium in a duopoly with switching costs," Mimeo, Department of Economics, University of Bergen (with Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen).
• "On education and fertility," Mimeo, Department of Economics, University of Bergen (with Øivind Anti Nilsen and Ghazala Naz).