Steinar Vagstad
Position
Professor
Affiliation
Research
- Population Economics
- Contract theory
- Regulation
- Industrial organization
- Auctions
Publications
Monographies
- 脴kologisk jordbruk og jordbrukspolitiske m氓lsettingar, Master鈥檚 thesis, Department of Economics, University of Bergen, 1987.
- Five essays on incentives in procurement contracting, Dissertations in Economics no. 4, Department of Economics, University of Bergen, 1994.
International publications
- 鈥淧romoting fair competition in public procurement,鈥 Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 58: 283-307, 1995.
- 鈥淚nformation rent and technology choice in a regulated firm,鈥 in Picot, A. and E. Schlicht (Eds.): Firms, Markets, and Contracts 鈥 Contributions to Neo-Institutional Economics, Corrected 2nd printing, Physica-Verlag, 1997.
- "Investors facing opportunistic governments: Is it really good to 鈥渒now the market鈥 before investing?鈥 [with Michaela Erbenov谩, CERGE-EI, Prague], Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 101(3): 459-75, 1999.
- 鈥淐entralized vs. decentralized procurement: Does local information call for decentralized decision-making?鈥 International Journal of Industrial Organization, 18: 949-963, 2000.
- "Procurement auctions with entry of bidders" [with Egil Kjerstad, SNF], International Journal of Industrial Organization 18: 1243-1257, 2000.
- "On private incentives to aquire household skills," Journal of Population Economics, 14, 301-312, 2001.
- 鈥淐onsumer heterogeneity, incomplete information and pricing in a duopoly with switching costs鈥 [with Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen, University of Bergen]. Information Economics and Policy 5(3): 384-401, 2003.
- 鈥淥n how size and composition of customer bases affect equilibrium in a duopoly with switching costs [with Tommy Gabrielsen].鈥 Review of Economic Design, 9: 59-71, 2004.
- 鈥淓ducation and completed fertility in Norway鈥 [with 脴ivind Anti Nilsen and Ghazala Naz]. In Gustafsson, Siv; Kalwij, Adriaan (Eds.) Education and Postponement of Maternity, European Studies of Population, Vol.15. Springer Verlag, 2006.
- 鈥淪hould auctioneers supply early information for prospective bidders?鈥 International Journal of Industrial Organization, 25: 597-614, 2007.
- 鈥淲hy is on-net traffic cheaper than off-net traffic? Access markup as a collusive device?鈥 [with Tommy Gabrielsen]. European Economic Review, 52: 99鈥115, 2008.
- 鈥淢2M Call Termination 鈥 Regulation or Competition?鈥 [with Tommy Gabrielsen]. Applied Economics Quarterly, 54: 203-215, 2008.
- 鈥Access pricing in agricultural markets with regulated downstream competition and upstream externalities鈥 [with Kristin Linnerud], European Review of Agricultural Economics, 37 (1): 77-96.
Projects
Work in progress
- . Mimeo, Department of Economics, University of Bergen.
- . WP 0600, Department of Economics, University of Bergen (with ). Second resubmission invited by the Journal of Labor Economics.
- . Mimeo, Department of Economics, University of Bergen.