PhD about economic development: voting rights, financing plights and wealth inequalitiy in Norway

M.Phil in Economics Edda Torsdatter Solbakken at Department of Economics will defend the thesis The wealth of a young nation - On voting rights, financing plights, and long-run wealth inequality in Norway for the Ph.D degree.

Photo: Camilla Stabell

Trial lecture - time and place

Friday, October 5, 2018 at 10.15 in Auditorium 2, Eilert Sundt's building: "How can institutions affect distributions of income and wealth?"

Adjudication committee

  • Professor Daniel Waldenström, Research Institute of Industrial Economics and Paris School of Economics
  • Associate Professor Kerstin Enflo, University of Lund, Sweden
  • Professor Carl Henrik Knutsen, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo

Chair of defence

Dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr

Supervisors

  • Professor II Rolf Aaberge, Department of Economics and Statistics Norway
  • Professor Karl Ove Moene, Department of Economics

Additional information

Article about Solbakken’s thesis: The Wealth of a young nation - On voting rights, financing plights, and long-run wealth inequality in Norway (in Norwegian).

Published Sep. 21, 2018 9:15 AM - Last modified Sep. 2, 2022 2:51 PM