Vidar Christiansen
Education
Cand. oecon. (M.Phil.) (University of Oslo),
Dr. oecon. (Norwegian School
of Economics and Business Administration)
Present Position and Affiliation
Professor of Economics, University of Oslo
Past Positions and Activities
Former Head, Department of Economics, University of Oslo
CESifo Research Fellow
Selected other academic and professional activities:
Nordic Economic Research Council 1992-96 (chair 1993-96)
The programme committee of the Congress of the European Economic Association 1989
The Board of the Norwegian Tax Research Programme, 1997-
Nordic Tax Research Council, 2000-
Norwegian government service:
Advisory group to the Ministry of Finance on cost-benefit analysis, 1975-76, Government committee on energy legislation, 1980-85, Advisory group to the government committee on taxation of capital and firms, 1988-89, Expert committee on differentiating VAT rates, 1992-93 (chair), Green Tax Commission, 1994-96.
Honors
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, elected member
The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, elected member
The David Davidson prize for best article in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1989
Best Paper Award at the 53rd Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Kyoto 1997 (with Sören Blomquist)
Editorial activities and refereeing
Guest Editor of the special conference issue of International Tax and Public Finance 2006-07
Journal of Public Economics, associate editor, 2003-
International Tax and Public Finance, associate editor, 1999-2004
European Economic Review, associate editor, 1987-89
Economic Policy Panel 1996-98
Served as referee for American Economic Review, Economic Policy, European Economic Review, FinanzArchiv, German Economic Review, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Oxford Economic Papers, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Sosialökonomen, Statsökonomisk Tidsskrift, Norsk ökonomisk tidsskrift.
Reader for Cambridge University Press.
IIPF service
The scientific committee of the Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance 1999
Chair of the scientific committee of the IIPF Congress 2006
Selected publications
Implicit social preferences in the Norwegian system of indirect taxation, (with E.S. Jansen), Journal of Public Economics 10, 1978.
Two comments on tax evasion, Journal of Public Economics 13, 1980.
Evaluation of public projects under optimal taxation, Review of Economic Studies 48, 1981
Some important properties of the social marginal utility of income, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 85, 1983.
Which commodity taxes should supplement the income tax? Journal of Public Economics 28, 1984.
Choice of occupation, tax incidence and piecemeal tax revision, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 90, 1988.
A normative analysis of capital income taxes in the presence of aggregate risk, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory, 18, 1993.
Normative aspects of differential, state-contingent capital income taxation, Oxford Economic Papers 47, 1995.
Topping up or opting out? The optimal design of public provision schemes. International Economic Review 39 (2), 1998 (with Sören Blomquist).
Price subsidies versus public provision. International Tax and Public Finance 5, 1998 (with Sören Blomquist).
The political economy of publicly provided private goods. Journal of Public Economics 73, 1999 (with Sören Blomquist).
The marginal cost of public funds under information constrained taxation. FinanzArchiv 56 (2),188-201, 1999.
The role of prices for excludable public goods. International Tax and Public Financ 12, 2005 (with Sören Blomquist).
Two approaches to determine public good provision under distortionary taxation. National Tax Journal, 60 (1), 2007.
Optimal commodity taxation with duty-free shopping. International Tax and Public Finance, forthcoming (with Stephen Smith).
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