Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

Research Interests

International economics, new economic geography, industry localisation, industrial clusters, tax policy, industrial policy.

Curriculum Vitae

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Courses taught

• ECON 1410 - Internasjonal Økonomi
• ECON 4415 - International Trade

Education and Career

• Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oslo
• Professor, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), 2004 - 2005
• Professor scholar, Department of Economics, (NHH), 2002 - 2004
• Research Director, Centre for International Economics and Shipping (NHH) (SNF), 1999 - 2003
• Phd in economics (NHH), 1996
  Disertation title: On the Location of Economic and Academic Activity,
  Supervisor: Anthony J.Venables
• Master of Science ("Diplom Kauffrau"), University of Mannheim, 1991

Positions held

• Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
• Research Fellow, CESifo
• Associate Editor, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008 -
• Member of the board of directors of Nansenfondet, 2008 -
• Chair of the public commission appointed by the Norwegian government to promote cross-country growth in skill-intensive jobs (Kompetansearbeidsplasser-utvalget), 2010 -
• Member of the governmental commission appointed by the Norwegian government to assess the impact of the EEA agreement for Norway (EØS-utvalget), 2009 -
• Member of the public commission appointed by the Norwegian government to assess the regulation of financial markets (Finanskriseutvalget), 2009 - 2011
• Member of the public commission appointed by the Norwegian government to consider the industrial policy measures (Industriutvalget), 2004
• Member of the public commission appointed by the Norwegian government to consider a Norwegian tax reform (Skauge-utvalget), 2002-2003
• Member of the public commission appointed by the Norwegian government to consider measures to encourage privately funded R&D (Hervik-utvalget), 1999-2000

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Awards

• Young Researcher Award: Ingvar Wedervangs’s Price for Research in Economics and Business Administration (awarded by the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration), 2001

Publications

• Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe: ’Regional policy design: An analysis of relocation, efficiency and equity’, in the European Economic Review 51(2007): 1443-1467
• Rikard Forslid and Karen Helene Midelfart: ’Globalization, industrial policy, and clusters’, in the Journal of International Economics 66 (2005): 197-213
• Hans Jarle Kind, Karen Helene Midelfart, and Guttorm Schjelderup: ’Corporate taxation, multinational enterprises and economic integration’, in the Journal of International Economics 65 (2005): 507-521
• Karolina Ekholm and Karen Helene Midelfart, ’Relative wages and trade-induced changes in technology’, in the European Economic Review 49 (2005): 1637-1663
• Karen Helene Midelfart and Henry G. Overman: ’Delocation and European integration: is structural spending justified?’, in the Economic Policy 35 (2002): 322-359
• Rikard Forslid, Jan I. Haaland, and Karen Helene Midelfart: ‘A U shaped Europe? A simulation study of industrial location’, in the Journal of International Economics 57 (2002): 273-297
• Hans J. Kind, Karen Helene Midelfart, and Guttorm Schjelderup: ’Competing for capital in a “lumpy” world’, in the Journal of Public Economics 78 (2000): 253-274
• Karen Helene Midelfart and Frode Steen: ’Self-reinforcing agglomerations? An empirical industry study’, in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics 101 (1999): 515-532

For compleat list of publications see the personal homepage.