Oddvar Martin Kaarbøe

Title: Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 92 16

Cellphone: +47 959 34 576 SMS

E-mail: Oddvar.Kaarboe@econ.uib.no

Visiting address: Fosswinckelsgate 14

Health economics

Incentive theory

Evolutionary game theory (former)

Publications in Cristin

Selected international publications

• How Do We Invest in Social Capital? An Exploration of an Economic Model of Social Capital and Health. In S. Folland and L. Rocco (eds.) The Economics of Social Capital and Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Roadmap. 2014 World Scientific (With S. Folland and K. Islam).
• Waiting times and socioeconomic status. Evidence from Norway.  Health Economics, 23(1), 93-107, 2014. With Fredrik Carlsen.
• The Impact of Different Prioritisation Policies on Waiting Times. A Comparative Analysis of Norway and Scotland. Social Science & Medicine, 97, 1-6, 2013. With Jurgita Januleviciute, Jan Erik Askildsen, Tor Helge Holmås, Matt Sutton. 
• Monitoring Prioritization in a Public Health Care Sector. Health Economics, 20(8), 958-970, 2011. With Jan Erik Askildsen and Tor Helge Holmås.
• Paying for Performance in Hospitals. Economic Analysis and Policy, 41(1),  49-70, 2011. With Burkhard Hehenkamp.
• Multitasking, Quality and Pay for Performance. Health Economics, 20(2), 225-238, 2011. With Luigi Siciliani. 
• Norwegian priority guidelines: Estimating the distributional implications across age, gender and SES. Health Policy, 95, 264-270, 2010. With Fredrik Carlsen.
• Prioritization and patients' rights: Analysing the effect of a reform in the Norwegian Hospital Sector. Social Science & Medicine, 70, 199-208, 2010. With Jan Erik Askildsen and Tor Helge Holmås.
• Imitators and optimizers in a changing environment. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 32(5), 1357-1380, 2008. With Burkhard Hehenkamp.
• Distorted performance measures and dynamic incentives. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 17(1), 149-183, 2008. With Trond Olsen.
• Centralized or decentralized? A case study of Norwegian hospital reform.  Social Science & Medicine, 64, 2129-2137, 2007. With Jon Magnussen, Terje P. Hagen.
• The Process of Implementing Decentralization. In R. Saltman, V. Bankauskaite and K. Vrangbæk (eds.) Decentralization in Health Care: Strategies and Outcomes. 2007. Open Academic Press/McGraw Hill. With K. Östergren, K. Danishevski and S. Boni.
• Career concerns, monetary incentives and job design. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 108 (2), 299-316, 2006. With Trond Olsen.  
• When should the talented receive weaker incentives? Peer pressure in teams. Finanzarchiv, 62, 124-148, 2006. With Burkhard Hehenkamp. 
• The Norwegian hospital reform of 2002: Central government takes over ownership of public hospitals. Health Policy, 76 (3), 320-333, 2006. With Terje P. Hagen.
• Equilibrium selection in coordination games with simultaneous play. Economic Theory, 20 (4), 793-807, 2002.  With Per Svejstrup Hansen.

• Five essays on equilibrium selection in evolutionary games. Dissertation in Economics, No. 17, 2000. Department of Economics, University of Bergen.

Selected publications in Norwegian   

• Et helsevesen uten grenser? Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, mai 2009. Med Kjell Haug og Trond Olsen
• Prioritering i helsesektoren. I Haug, Kaarbøe og Olsen Et helsevesen uten grenser? Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, 2009. Med Jan Erik Askildsen og Tor Helge Holmås.
• Er egenandeler i norsk spesialisthelsetjeneste effektivitetsfremmende? I Haug, Kaarbøe og Olsen Et helsevesen uten grenser? Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, 2009. Med Jan Erik Askildsen og Tor Helge Holmås.  
• Hvordan måle prioriteringspraksis i helsesektoren? Samfunnsøkonomen 2008: 62 (3), 19-27, With Jan Erik Askildsen og Tor Helge Holmås.  
• Riktigere bruk av laboratorietjenester - medisinske aspekter. Tidsskr Nor Lægeforen 2008; 128: 810-813. With Roar Gjelsvik, Sverre Sandberg, Hanne Husom Haukeland, Anne-Lise Bjørke Monsen.
• Riktigere bruk av laboratorietjenester - økonomiske aspekter. Tidsskr Nor Lægeforen 2008; 128: 814-817. With Roar Gjelsvik, Sverre Sandberg, Hanne Husom Haukeland, Anne-Lise Bjørke Monsen.
• Hvordan kan bruk av laboratorietjenester styres? Tidsskr Nor Lægeforen 2008; 128:840. With Roar Gjelsvik, Sverre Sandberg, Hanne Husom Haukeland, Anne-Lise Bjørke Monsen.
• Innsatsstyrt finansiering også i psykiatrien? Tidsskr Nor Lægeforen 2004; 124: 2379-2381. Med AnneLine Bretteville-Jensen.
• Behovsbasert finansiering av spesialisthelsetjenestene. Økonomisk Forum, 57 (1), 7-12, 2003. Med Terje P. Hagen.
• Erfaringer fra ledelses- og organisasjonsreformer i den svenske helsesektoren på 1990-tallet. I Askildsen, Jan Erik og Kjell Haug (red.). Helse, økonomi og politikk. Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, 2001. Med Katarina Östergren.
• Eierstrukturer i sykehussektoren. I Askildsen, Jan Erik og Kjell Haug (red.). Helse, økonomi og politikk. Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, 2001. Med Egil Kjerstad.       

Work in progress

• How do hospitals respond to price changes? Evidence from Norway. (With Jurgita Januleviciute, Jan Erik Askildsen, Luigi Siciliani and Matt Sutton).

• The Social Capital and Health Hypothesis: An integrating Theory and New Empirics. With Sherman Folland, Kamrul Islam