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Office Address:
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, P.O. Box 1095 Blindern,
N-0317 Oslo, Norway
Fax: +47 22 85 50 35 Tel: +47 22 85 51 47 Tel: +47 22 85 51 27 (secretary)
email: jon.strand@econ.uio.no
Professor, Department of
Economics, - Scientific advisor, Frisch Centre,
Languages
Norwegian, English,
Spanish; good mastery of French, German.
Main areas of research
My current research can be
grouped into the following main areas:
- Labor economics, hereunder theoretical
work on labor unions, efficiency wages, bargaining and matching models,
and effects of taxation and mobility costs on labor market efficiency.
- Environmental, resource, health and
transportation economics. One focus here is on empirical and theoretical
work related to valuation of environmental and health goods and time
preferences, including theoretical foundations for CVM valuation, values
of mortality and morbidity changes, subjective time discount rates, and
hedonic property price studies. Another area is theoretical and empirical
work on the allocation of environmental and natural resources in
developing countries, in particular water and forest resources; and
effects of macroeconomic policies on developing countries’
environmental and resource situation.
Main areas of teaching
Most of my teaching is at
the upper undergraduate and graduate (Master and Ph D) level. My main areas of
teaching responsibility are labor economics (responsible for the main
department Master course), and environmental and resource economics. I also
teach both microeconomics and macroeconomics at various levels.
Other activities
I have done consulting for
several international institutions, including the World Bank, the
Inter-American Development Bank, and the OECD. Most of this work has been
related to environmental policy design, and to natural resource allocation in
developing countries. I have also been a consultant to various government
institutions in
CV
Current working papers
Environmental and resource economics:
Public-good valuation and intrafamily allocation altruism.pdf
The
value of water connections in Central American cities: A revealed-preference
study watervaluepaper.pdf
Water markets and demand in Central American
cities idbpaper2.pdf
Low-level” versus
”high-level” equilibrium: A theoretical framework for analysis of
urban water markets in developing countries lowequil3.pdf
Macroeconomic policies, the environment,
natural resources, and welfare in developing countries IDP paper Strand.pdf
Valuation of environmental improvements in
continuous time with mortality and morbidity effects VSL-environment[1].pdf
Health
economics and value of life:
Public- and private-good
values of statistical lives: Results from a combined choice-experiment and
contingent-valuation survey. lifepaper02.pdf
Individual and household value of mortality
reductions with intrahousehold bargaining inttempval1.pdf
Interpersonal
factors in the valuation of statistical lives interpersonalpaper.pdf
Deriving values of statistical
lives from observations of speed limits and driving behavior (forthcoming in
Journal of Transport Economics and Policy), accepted paper version JETP1899[1].pdf
A continuous-time value function approach to VSL and VSI valuation lifevalue.pdf
Labor economics and macroeconomics:
Wage and technology dispersion with wage bargaining
wagedist.pdf
Tax distortions, household production and
black-market work EJPE-blackmarkets.pdf
Competitive effort determination with heterogeneous
workers and team production teams-short.pdf
Wage distributions under firm wage posting and directed
worker search wagesettingart1.pdf
A risk allocation approach
to optimal exchange rate policy (forthcoming in Oxford Economic Papers) EXCHoptD5.pdf
Internal incentive
mechanisms in small teams with union-firm wage bargaining team effort.pdf
Teaching:
Overview of labor economics course, 4715, spring 2004course overview 04.pdf