2017
Kari Henriksen and Aleksander Lorentzen: Friday seminar on digital drawing
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus
Seminar for academic staff on the use of digital drawing in digital exams.
2016
Pizzaseminar with Debraj Ray: How to publish well- an editor's view
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus
ESOP invites to a seminar with Debraj Ray entitled "How to publish well- an editor's view".
ESOP debate on Corporate Social Responsibility
Time and place: Nov. 3, 2016 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Auditorium 7, Eilert Sundts hus
Do firms maximize shareholder value? And should they? Is there a conflict between catering to shareholders’ interests on one hand and to the common good on the other? And if so, how should we go about to solve the conflict? Is corporate social responsibility simply to comply with laws and regulations, or is there more to it?
ESOP invites to a debate between a law professor and two economics professors to discuss these issues.
- Beate Sjåfjell is Professor of Law at the University of Oslo.
- Karine Nyborg is Professor of economics at the University of Oslo.
- Kalle Moene is Professor of economics at the University of Oslo and leader of ESOP research centre.
2015
Open Policy Meeting: International Poverty Measurement: Current State and Options for the Future
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus
Jon Eguia (New York University) will present Discrimination and Assimilation at the Senior job talk seminar Friday January 11.
Overcoming poverty has been a central focus of the international community and plays a central role in the recently agreed Sustainable Development Goals. A key indicator has been the World Bank's $ a day measure to track poverty over time and across regions. Recently the World Bank has re-set the international poverty line to $1.90 per capita per day in 2011 international prices, replacing the $1.25 line that had been in 2005 international prices.
The World Bank has also put in place the Commission on Global Poverty chaired by Sir Anthony Atkinson that is to advise on approaches to measure global poverty in future. At the same time, non-income measures of poverty, including the Multidimensional Poverty Index have gained prominence recently.
The purpose of this policy meeting is to discuss the current state and future options for international poverty measurement. It will discuss the new poverty line of $1.90 poverty line, review the results from the international comparison or prices project and their implications for poverty measurement, and discuss future ways to measure income poverty across the developing world, also taking into account the on-going work by the Commission of Global Poverty.
Program
14:15: Opening and introductory remarks by Petter Ølberg, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for economic relations and development
Lecture by Francisco Ferreira, World Bank Measuring Global Poverty: Past, Present and Future
16:45 - 18:30:Panel Discussion:
International Poverty Measurement: The Way Forward
Chair: Francois Bourguignon
Panelists:
- Francisco Ferreira, World Bank
- Stephan Klasen, University of Göttingen
- Milorad Kovacevic, UNDP.
- Kalle Moene, University of Oslo
The event is hosted by ESOP in cooperation with EUDN and with generous funding from GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Department for Economic Relations and Development on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2013
Senior job talk seminar: Jon Eguia presents Discrimination and Assimilation
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus
Jon Eguia (New York University) will present Discrimination and Assimilation at the Senior job talk seminar Friday January 11.
2011
Honorary Degree Acceptance Speech by Debraj Ray, "Conflicts and Distribution"
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus
Debraj Ray (born in India, 1957, PhD in Economics, Cornell University, 1983) is a Julius Silver Professor of Economics at New York University. He is one of the most distinguished mathematical economists of his vintage and clearly the leading theoretical development economist. He is especially recognized for his contributions to game theory, measuring polarization and inequality and to the theory of conflict.
His broad research program on polarization and conflict (jointly with Joan Esteban) has been extremely influential. It deals with everything from the salience of ethnic conflicts and civil war to polarization, fractionalization and development more generally. He also provides a new perspective on game theory in his theoretical contributions to how coalitions form and what gives them power and influence. He has published almost one hundred articles in leading economic journals and has written several books.
He is the author the most popular development textbooks, ‘’Development Economics’’. Over many years he has collaborated with researchers at ESOP, University of Oslo.
Yusuf Bangura: Seminar on Fighting Poverty with Social Pacts and Welfare - Is it possible and what can Norway do?
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus
Commentators: Kalle Moene (ESOP), Desmond McNeill (SUM), Ingrid Fiskaa (State Secretary for Environment and International Development), and Ragnhild Dybdahl (Director, Education and Research, NORAD)
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) has recently published a comprehensive ‘flagship report’ entitled ‘Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics’. The main conclusion is that the anti-poverty programmes guided by the ideas of the Monetary Fund and the World Bank have failed because power relations have been neglected. The successful cases rest instead with structural changes through state led economic growth on the basis of full employment in productive sectors and universal social security arrangements. This in turn has called for progressive coalitions of sufficiently powerful actors – and usually democracy enough to build them. And the historical experiences in Scandinavia are major points of reference. Are these conclusions viable and if so, what will be the Norwegian reaction?
Research seminar with Yuanyuan Wang
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus
Yuanyuan Wang is presenting "Uncertainty, Entrepreneurship and the Organisation of Corruption".
Research seminar with Alexandru Nichifor
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus
Alexandru Nichifor is presenting "Stability and Competitive Equilibria in Trading Networks".
Research seminar with Johan Söderberg
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus
Johan Söderberg presents "Customer Markets and the Welfare Effects of Monetary Policy"
Research seminar with Begum Guney
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus
Begum Guney presents "Aspiration-Based Choice Theory".
2010
Raquel Fernández presents "Women's Rights and Development"
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus
Main research seminar: Botond Kőszegi presents "Regular Prices and Sales".
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus
2009
Computer Literacy Day with Erik Ø. Sørensen at ESOP
Time and place: Dec. 2, 2009 9:15 AM – 3:00 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
December 2nd is World Computer Literacy Day. The aim for the computer literacy day at ESOP is to spend some time together thinking and talking about how to use computers efficiently for doing reproducible research.
The topics:
1. What are the different ways of understanding computing? Computer Science, Software Engineering and social studies of computing. Where are the real bottlenecks when economists deal with computers? Also: What every economist should know about computer science. Representation of data, the difference between math and computing, imperative vs functional and declerative programming.
- Greg Wilson (2006). Where's the Real Bottleneck in Scientific Computing? American Scientist, 94(1), 5-6.
- Greg Wilson (2009). How Do Scientists Really Use Computers? American Scientist 97(5), 8-10.
2. Workflow for data analysis. How to keep track of everything from back-of-the-envelope calculations to large environments of data and computation? It is well documented that professional, conscientious programmers create buggy software. How can we attempt to keep the worst bugs out of our economic calculations?
- Giovanni Baiocchi (2007). Reproducible research in computational economics: guidelines, integrated approaches, and open source software Computational Economics 30(1), 19-40.
- William G. Dewald, Jerry G. Thursby and Richard G. Anderson (1986). Replication in Empirical Economics: The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Project American Economic Review, 76(4), 587-603.
- J. Scott Long (2009). The Workflow of Data Analysis Using Stata TX: College Station, Stata Press.
- Justin McCrary (2002). Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime: Comment American Economic Review, 92(4), 1236-1243.
- B. D. McCullough, Kerry Anne McGeary and Teresa D. Harrison (2006). Lessons from the JMCB Archive Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 38(4), 1093-1107.
3. Software for economists, and why the spreadsheet should be banished from all economic analyses.
- Roger Koenker and Achim Zeileis (2009). On reproducible econometric research Journal of Applied Econometrics 24(5), 833-847.
- Raymond R. Panko (1998/2008). What We Know About Spreadsheet Errors Journal of End User Computing's, Special issue on Scaling Up End User Development 10(2), 15-21. Revised May 2008.
4. Efficient statistical computing with statistical software. My own examples will be using Stata, but similar commands exist in all available software out there.
5. What every economist should know about software engineering
- Jo Erskine Hannay, Hans Petter Langtangen, Carolyn MacLeod, Dietmar Pfahl, Janice Singer, and Greg Wilson (2009). How Do Scientists Develop and Use Scientific Software? Proc. Second International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering.
2008
Jean-Robert Tyran: Tax Illusion and Communication
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus
Michelle Rendall: Brain versus Brawn: The Realization of Women's Comparative Advantage
Time and place: – , Eilert Sundts hus