Ola Kvaløy

 

Position:  Professor, University of Stavanger

Born:  15.12.1973

Nationality: Norwegian

Family status: Married, three children

 

Tel: +47 51 83 15 82

Fax: +47 51 83 37 50

E-mail: ola.kvaloy@uis.no

Address: University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger

Homepage: www.uis.no/kvaloy 

 

Education:

  • Bachelor (cand. mag.) in social sciences, University of Bergen, 1997
  • Master (cand. polit.) in economics, University of Bergen, 2000
  • Ph. D.  (doctor oecon.) in economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 2003

Positions:

  • Professor of economics, University of Stavanger, 2008-
  • Professor II, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 2010-
  • Board member of Stavanger Centre for Innovation Research, 2009 –
  •  Manager of the law and economics research program, UiS, 2009-
  • Member of the Norwegian Scientific Council for Economics, 2010-
  • Associate professor of economics, University of Stavanger, 2003-2008
  •  Head of master program in economics and business administration at UiS, 2007-2009
  • Doctorial research fellow, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 2000-2003
  • Research assistant, Chr. Michelsen Institute, 1998-2000

Publications:

International journals:

Book chapters:

  • The Economic Organization of Specific Assets in the Offshore Industry.  The Changing World of  Oil: An Analysis of Corporate Change and Adaptation (J. Davis et. al. eds), 2006, Ashgate.

  • Changes in the organization of value chains for food. In (F. Asche, ed.) Primary industries facing global markets, 2006, Universitetsforlaget, (with Ragnar Tveterås)

Norwegian journals:

  •  Den integrerte oppdrettsnæringen. Økonomisk Forum, vol. 60, 2006, 25-32 (with Ragnar Tveterås).
  • Kontrakter mellom oppdretter og kjøper (with Ragnar Tveterås and Petter Osmundsen) Norsk Fiskeoppdrett, vol. 28, 2004, 32-34.
  • Langsiktige kontrakter. Kan de fungere i havbruk? (with Ragnar Tveterås and Petter Osmundsen)
  • Norsk Fiskeoppdrett, vol. 29, 2004, 32-34.

 

Norwegian newspaper/web articles:

  

  •  Incentiver til besvær, Dagens Næringsliv, May 21, 2010.  
  • Andres penger (with Kristoffer Eriksen), Stavanger Aftenblad, September 14, 2009
  • Incentiver under lupen (with Klaus Mohn), Dagens Næringsliv, February 3, 2009 
  • Kan psykologi forklare finanskrisen? Forskning.no, December 5, 2008 
  • Hvordan forklare finanskrisen? Morgenbladet, November 28, 2008
  • Valutalån for risikoelskere, Stavanger Aftenblad, October 29 , 2008.
  • Lønn og tjenester, Dagens Næringsliv, February 26, 2008.

 

Working papers:

  • The Rise of Individual Performance Pay (with Trond E. Olsen)
  • Performance Appraisal and Career Opportunities: A Case Study (with Klaus Mohn and Arngrim Hunnes).
  • Incentive Provision when Contracting is Costly (with Trond Olsen)
  • False Crowding Out (with Trond Olsen)
  • Myopic Risk-Taking in Tournaments (with Kristoffer Eriksen)

International conference presentations:  

  • Econometric Society World Congress, London, 2005
  • Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA), Amsterdam, 2005
  • Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Prague 2006.
  • First Nordic Workshop of Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Oslo, 2006
  • TRIO conference, NBER-CEPR-TCER, Tokyo, 2006
  • EEA, Budapest, 2007
  • Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Valencia, 2007
  • International Meeting in Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Alicante, 2008
  • Third Nordic Conference of Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Copenhagen, 2008.
  • EEA and ESEM, Barcelona, 2009
  • EARIE, Ljubljana, 2009
  • ESE conference on Behavioral Economics, Rotterdam, 2009
  • EALE / SOLE, World Congress, London, 2010

Invited seminars

  • University of Bergen, 2005
  • Osaka University, 2006
  • Hitotsubashi University, 2006
  • Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 2007
  • Norwegian School of Management, 2008
  • ESOP Workshop, University of Oslo, 2009
  • Helsinki Center of Economic Research, 2009
  • Humboldt University, Berlin, 2009

Research stays:

  • Visiting Scholar, Scancor, Stanford University, 2002.
  • Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley, 2007

Grants:

  • Meltzer scholarship, 1995
  • Meltzer’s research fund, 2001
  •  Skaug’s research fund, 2002
  • Amland’s research fund, 2002
  • Cappelen Smith’s research fund, 2002
  • Keilhau’s research fund, 2002 and 2007
  • Finance Market Fund, 2007-2009
  • The Leiv Eriksson mobility program, Norwegian Research Council, 2007
  • Norwegian Research Council, ØKISP 2010-2013
  • Norwegian Research Council, FRISAM, 2010-2013

 

Awards:

  • Hetland vgs award, 1992
  • EAAE award for best European paper in Agricultural Economics, 2006
  • Teaching award, master program economics and business administration, 2007
  • Lyse research award, 2009

 

Referee assignments

  • Agricultural Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Economica, Economic Journal, European Review of Agricultural of Economics, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Management Science, Portugese Economic Journal, Review of Economic Design, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics

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