New centre for public economics to be established at the deparment
New centre for public economics to be established at the department
Together with Statistics Norway and Frisch Centre, the Department of Economics will establish a new centre for public economics, Oslo Fiscal Studies (OFS) at the department.
Centre of Excellence
Centre of Equality, Social Organization, and Performance
ECR-grant to professor at the Department of Economics
Bård Harstad, professor at the Department of Economics, is the first economist in Norway to receive the Starting Grant from ERC (European Reserach Council). His project "General Institutional Equilibrium - Theory and Policy Implications" will analyse both national environmental policy and international cooperation.
New FME centre established
The Research Council of Norway has given CREE (Oslo Centre for Environment-Friendly Energy Research) status as research centre for environment-friendly energy research (FME). The centre is a joint venture involving Frisch Centre, Department of Economics (UiO), SSB and Tilburg Sustainability Center, and will have research relating to energy, climate and environmental policy as its main focus.
Prize for best article in Samfunnsøkonomen
Kjell Arne Brekke, together with Snorre Kverndokk at Frisch Centre, has been awarded the prize for best article published in Samfunnsøkonomen. The article was titled "Skaper velferdsstaten større sosiale helseforskjeller?"
Invild Almås published as single author in AER
Invild Almås is the first Norwegian woman to publish a single-author paper in American Economic Review.
Doctoral degree
The Faculty of Social Science is responsible for the PhD programme, while the Department of Economics is responsible for the studies in Economics within the PhD-programme.