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Published Feb. 12, 2014 1:48 PM

Nicolai Ellingsen, Eirik Eylands Brandsås, Kjersti Knudsen Aarestad, and Erling Skancke have won the ESOP student scholarship 2014. Frikk Nesje has been awarded ESOP’s Gender & Economics Scholarship 2014.

Published Sep. 20, 2013 3:49 PM

Are you going to write your Master's thesis at the Department of Economics or any other Department at the Faculty of Social Sciences, UiO, in the spring of 2014? If you plan to write a thesis that is relevant to any of ESOP's research areas, apply for a scholarship within 20 October 2013.

Published Aug. 21, 2013 8:57 AM

Kjetil Storesletten, Professor at the Department of Economics, is the co-winner of the Sun Yefang Award 2012 for the article "Growing Like China". It's the first time that this prize, which is the highest ranked Chinese award for economists, has been given to European economists.

Published Aug. 19, 2013 10:52 AM

Matteo Alpino, Martin Eckhoff Andresen, and Eivind Hammersmark Olsen are the three PhD candidates who start their work at ESOP this semester.

Published July 1, 2013 11:46 AM

Bård Harstad, Professor at ESOP, has been awarded the Erik Kempe Prize in Environmen​tal and Resource Economics 2013 for his study “Buy Coal! A Case for Supply-Side Environmental Policy" in the Journal of Political Economy.

Published May 31, 2013 9:56 AM

Ingvild Almås, Associate Professor at ESOP, has been awarded the Nils Klim Prize for young Nordic researchers in 2013. The award ceremony will take place in Håkonshallen, Bergen, on 5 June. The laureate will talk about "Global inequality and the Chinese growth miracle" in the Nils Klim Prize Dialogue 2013.

Published Apr. 26, 2013 3:29 PM

Time and venue: 3 May, 2013 12:15 PM-13:15 PM, Auditorium 1, Ground floor, Eilert Sundts hus.

Professor Vernon L. Smith, Chapman University, will give a lecture on how learning from economic experiments helps to inform the understanding of recessions and bubbles. Smith won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms.

Published Mar. 5, 2013 11:31 AM

Prof. Beata Javorcik (prof. II at ESOP) will give a PhD course "Topics in Empirical Trade and FDI" (ECON9402) at the Department of Economics for two days in March and three days in April.

Published Sep. 26, 2012 11:51 AM

Centre for the study of Equality, Social Organization and Performance has up to seven scholarships for master students writing their thesis in the spring 2013. The application deadline is October 20th.

Published June 11, 2012 10:07 AM

M.Phil. Marte Strøm at the Department of Economics will defend her dissertation for the Ph.D. degree: "Double Income Households - 4 Essays on Children, Votes and Parents' Labor Supply"