CURRICULUM VITAE

ESPEN R. MOEN

NATIONALITY Norwegian

DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1964

MARITAL STATUS Married with three children

CURRENT POSITIONS

·      Research Professor in Economics, Norwegian Business School

·      Partner in the consulting firm Oeconomica

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

·      First degree in Mathematics and Sciences, University of Oslo (1986).

·      Cand-Oecon (MA Economics), University of Oslo (1991).

·      Ph. D., London School of Economics (1995). Title of doctoral thesis: “Essays on Matching Models of the Labour Market”. Supervisor: Professor Christopher A. Pissarides.

EXPERIENCE

·      Research Fellow, University of Oslo, 1991-1994.

·      Lecturer, London School of Economics, 1994-1995.

·      Research Economist, SNF (Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration) -University of Oslo, 1995-1998.

·      Associate Professor 2, Economics and Mathematics, Institute for Mathematics, University of Oslo, 1996-1998.

·      Associate Professor, Norwegian Business School - BI, 1998-2003.

·      Professor, Norwegian Business School, 2003-

·      Professor 2, University of Oslo, Department of Economics, 2008-2014.

·      Non-voting board Member, Norges Bank (Norwegian central bank), 2011-2016.

·      Professor, University of Oslo, 2014-2015

·      Department Chair, Economics Department at the Norwegian Business School 2011-2014 and 2015-2019.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

·      Norwegian Business School Research Award 2005

·      Fellow of CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research), LSE, 2007-

·      Fellow, European Economic Association, 2012-

·      Hicks-Tinbergen award, European Economic Association, 2022

VISITING POSITIONS

·         Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, 2004-2005

·         Grainger Visitor, University of Wisconsin at Madisson Nov 2016.

·         Granger Visitor, University of Wisconsin at Madisson Oct 2024

EDITORIAL POSITIONS /CONFERENCE CHAIR/BOARDS

·         Chair, Scientific Programme Committee for the EEA annual meeting in Oslo, August 2011.

·         Editor, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2005 – 2008.

·         Associated Editor, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008-2019

·         Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, The School of Business, Aalto University, 2021 -

·         Guest Editor, Economic Theory, special issue on housing markets 2024.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

·      “Competitive Search Equilibrium". Journal of Political Economy 1997, vol 105, No.2, 385-411.

·      "Efficient Ways to Finance Human Capital Investments". Economica 1997 vol 65, 491-505.

·      “Education, Ranking, and Competition for Jobs”. Journal of Labor Economics 1999, Vol 17, no 4, 694-723.

·         "State Ownership as a Signalling Device". With D.M. Dalen and C. Riis.  Nordic Journal of Political Economy 2001 vol 27, 3-12.

·      "Do Negotiated Agreements Lead to Cost Efficiency?”  with R. Golombek. Journal of Economics 2001, vol 76, 101-123.

·         "Do Good Workers Hurt Bad Workers-or is it the Other Way Around?”. International Economic Review 2003, vol 44, 779-799.

·     "Regulation with Wage Bargaining" with  D.M. Dalen. and  N.H.M. vd Fehr. Economic Journal  2003, vol 113, 525-538

·       "Does Poaching Distort Training?" with Åsa Rosen. Review of Economic Studies 2004, vol. 71, 1143-1162.

·         “Incentive Contracts and Adverse Selection” with Åsa Rosen. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2005, vol 107(2), 279–298.

·         “Contract renewal and incentives in public procurement” with Dag Morten Dalen and Christian Riis.  International Journal of Industrial Economics 2006 vol 24, 269-285.

·         “Equilibrium Incentive Contracts and Efficiency Wages” with Åsa Rosen. Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) 2006, vol 4, 1165-1192.

·         “Efficient Exclusion” with Christian Riis. Internet comment on AEA-Web (American Economic Associations web page), 2007

·         “Policy Reversal” with Christian Riis. American Economic Review Vol 100, no 3, June 2010, 1261-1268

·         “Job-to-Job Movements in a Simple Search Model” with Pietro Garibaldi. American Economic Review p&p vol 100, no 2, May 2010 pp 343-347.

·          “Worker Replacement” with Guido Menzio, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2010, vol 57, 623-636 (Lead article).

·          “Incentives in Competititve Search Equilibrium” (with Åsa Rosen). Review of Economic Studies 2011 vol 78 (2)  733-761.

·         “Entrepreneurship: Originis and Returns” with Helge Bergland, Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm and Knut Røed. Labor Economics 18 (2011) 180-193.

·          “Ownership and Cost-Sharing Contracts” with Dag Morten Dalen. Australian Economic Papers 2012 ;Volum 51.(3) p. 134-146

·         “Financial Shocks and Labor: Facts and Theories” with T. Boeri and P. Garibaldi. IMF  Economic Review (2013) 61, 631–663

·         “On-the-job Search and Moral Hazard” with Åsa Rosen. Journal of the European Economic Association (2013), vol 11, no 6

·         “Competitive on-the-job Search” with P. Garibaldi and D.E. Sommervoll (2016).  Review of Economic Dynamics, 19, 88-107.

·         “Information and coordination frictions in experimental posted offer markets” with L. Helland and E. Preugschat (2017). Journal of Economic Theory 167  53-74.

·          “Inside Severane Pay” with Tito Boeri and Pietro Garibaldi. Journal of Public Economics 145 (2017), 211-225.

·         “Productivity Spillovers through Labor Mobility in Search Equilibrium” with Tom-Reiel Heggedal and Edgar Preugschat. Journal of Economic Theory 169 (2017) 551–602.

·         Tito, Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi, and Espen R. Moen (2018). "Financial constraints in search equilibrium: Mortensen Pissarides meet Holmstrom and Tirole." Labor economics 50 (2018): 144-155.

·         "Price Dispersion and the Role of Stores” with Fredrik Wulfsberg and Øyvind Nilsen Aas. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 122.3 (2020): 1181-1206.

·         "Buying first or selling first in housing markets”, with Plamen T. Nenov, and Florian Sniekers. Journal of the European Economic Association 19.1 (2021): 38-81.

·         “In medio stat victus: Labor Demand Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age”. With Tito Boeri and Pietro Garibaldi. Journal of Population Economics 35, 519-556 (2022).

·         “The economics of hypergamy”. With Ingvild Almås, Andreas Kotsadam, and Knut Røed. Journal of Human Resources, 58, 2060-2081 (2023).

·         “The SAM Approach to Epidemic Models” with Pietro Garibaldi and Chris Pissarides. Forthcoming in the 50th Research in Labor Economics 50th Celeboratory Volume 1-23 Lead article (2023).

·         “Static and dynamic inefficiencies in an optimizing model of epidemics”. With Pietro Garibaldi and Chris Pissarides. Economic Theory 1-40  (2023).

·         “Sequential Price Setting: Theory and Evidence from a Lab Experiment”. With Tom-Reiel Heggedal and Leif Helland. International Economic Review, forthcoming

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

·         “Regulation and Competition in the Norwegian Telecomunication Markets” with Øystein Fjeldstad and Christian Riis. In Competition and Welfare: The Norwegian Experience, 71-84, Konkurransetilsynet, 2006.

·         Moderne Mikroøkonomi (Market-leading undergraduate textbook in Norwegian) with Christian Riis, 2016 (fourth edition).

·         Regulating the Norwegian Telecommunications Market in 2016: How much is necessary? In Bjørndal, M., Gjesdal, F., and A. Mjøs (ed.) Finance and Society, Cappelen, 2017.

·         Innføring i samfunnsøkonomi 2. edition (with Christian Riis and Erling Steigum). Gyldendal forlag 2019

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN NORWEGIAN

·         Er euro-tilknytning så ille? Medforfatter: Arne Jon Isachsen. Sosialøkonomen nr 9 1999 s 14-16.

·         Er frivillige avtaler kostnadseffektive? Medforfatter: Rolf Golombek. Sosialøkonomen nr 9 1999 s 34-38.

·         Hva skal vi gjøre med SDØE?  Økonomisk forum nr 5 2001 s 29-34.

·         Privat Arbeidsformidling. Søkelys på Arbeidsmarkedet 2 2003,193-202.

·         Hvorfor faller ikke lønningene mer i nedgangstider? Samfunnsøkonomen nr 9 2011 30-31.

·         Utsatt lønn: Bra for motivasjonen, ikke for produktiviteten.  Samfunnsøkonomen nr 8 2013 s 64-67.

·         Valg av kapitaliseringsrente i erstatningssaker. Med Steinar Holden og Thore Johnsen. Samfunnsøkonomen 2016, 130(6), 18-32   

·         Kommentar til Thøgersen-Utvalget. Med Steinar Holden og Ragnar Torvik. Samfunnsøkonomen 2017.

·         En prinsipiell tilnærming til økonomiske tiltakspakker mens vi bekjemper Koronaviruset. Med Espen Henriksen og Gisle Natvik. Samfunnsøkonomen no 2 2020 s 4-9.

·         Prisdiskriminering i dagligvarebransjen. Med Tommy Gabrielsen og Tore Nilssen. Samfunnsøkonomen 2020 no 3, 21-30.

·         Økonomisk politikk i koronakrisens kjølvann – hva fremstår som særlig viktig? Med Espen Henriksen og Gisle Natvik. Samfunnsøkonomen 2021 no 5.

·         «Hicks-Tinbergen prisen 2022 til Espen R. Moen, Plamen Nenov og Florian Sniekers» Samfunnsøkonomen nr 1 2023

EXPERIENCE FROM EXTERNALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Selected projects. Titles of some projects have been translated from Norwegian.

·         Principles under Pressure (Forskningsrådet)  2022-2026. Co-investigator.

·         Price-coordination, price negotiations, and price discrimination. Competition Authorities  2019-2023. PI

·         Bargaining failiure. Norwegian Research Council – Toppforsk 2016-2021. Co-investigator.

·         Competition policy in dynamic markets and markets with structural network externalities. Competition Authorities 2016-2018. Co-investigator

·         Experimental Markets with Search Costs and Newtwork Externalities. Forskningsrådet (Frisam) 2012-2017. PI.

·         R&D, Industry Dynamics, and Public Policy (leader). Norwegian Research Council,  2007-2012. PI

·         Incentive contracts in labour market equilibrium (leader). Norwegian Resarch Council, FRISAM, 2005-2012. PI.

·         Wage contracts and labour market efficiency. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2001-2004. Co-investigator.

·         Education and lifetime income. Financed by the Ministry of Labour and Government Administration 1996.PI

·         Voluntary agreements in environmental policy (leader). Financed by the Norwegian Research Council under the SAMRAM (Norwegian Energy and Environmental Policy: Constraints, Opportunities and Instruments) Programme 1997-99. Co-investigator.

·         A value-creating Norway (participated in the project). Analysed the petroleum sector. 2000. Co-investigator.

·         Public owernship, incentives and efficiency  Financed by the Norwegian Research Council: 1998-2002. Co-investigator

·         Cheaper and better: quality and efficiency within the public sector. The Norwegian Research Council 1998-2002. Co-investigator

·         New ways to finance labour market policies. Financed by the Ministry of Labour and Government Administration. Finished July 2003. PI

·         Local and global network externalities. Research project financed by Telenor. Co-investigator

·         Competition within electronic communication (participant). Financed by the Norwegian Competition Authorities and the Post and Telecommunication Agency. Finished September 2003. PI

CONSULTANCY AND ADVISORY SERVICES (SELECTED)

·         Economic advisor for the Competition Authorities 2018-2023, testified for the Competition Appelas Board March 2019 and for Gulating Lagmannsrett Jan 2021.

·         Economic Advisor for the Ministry of Trade and Industry on price discrimination in the grocery market, 2019-2020.

·         Leader of an official committee (NOU) orgainzied by Ministry of Finance (Eiendomsmeglingsutvalget), 2019- 2021. 

·         Member of an official comitee (NOU) organized by the Ministry of Finace on the sharing economy 2016-2017.

·         Member of an official committee (Arbeidsrettede tjenester) 2011-2012.

·         Expert witness in a large number of court cases, among them for the Norwegian Supreme court in 2014,  Frostating lagmannsrett in 2015, and Borgarting lagmannsrett in 2016 (twice).

·         Advisor for the Government (Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, the Ministry of Trade and Energy, Ministry of Justice among others),

·         Advisor for regulatory authorities (Norwegina Competition Authorities, Norwegian Post and Telecomunication Authority, PST).

·         Advisor for private companies (Telenor, Netcom, Boxer) and for several employer organizations including NHO.