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Scientist profile

Rune Jansen Hagen

Associate Professor

Department of Economics

Title: Associate Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 92 19

E-mail:

Visiting address: Fosswinckelsgate 14

  • Development economics
  • International economics
  • Political economy

Education

  • Ph.D. Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH)

Teaching experience

  • Courses in political economy, bachelor and master level, NHH and UiB
  • Courses in development economics, bachelor and master level, UiB
  • Course in institutions and economics, master level, UiB
  • Introductory microeconomics, UiB

Project experience

  • Participated in numerous externally financed projects, including some as project leader, mostly on topics within development economics

Publications in Cristin

Selected international publications:

  • "Certified or Branded? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the IMF's Policy Support Instrument." Review of International Organizations, forthcoming.
  • "Basic Analytics of Multilateral Lending and Surveillance." Journal of International Economics 79 (2009):126-136.
  • "National Responsibility and the Just Distribution of Debt Relief." Ethics and International Affairs 21(1): 69-83 (2007) (with Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden). Also published in C. Barry, B. Herman, and L. Tomitova (eds.): Dealing Fairly with Developing Country Debt. Blackwell, 2008.
  • "Buying Influence. Aid Fungibility in a Strategic Perspective." Review of Development Economics 10(2): 267-284 (2006).
  • “Samaritan Agents? On the Strategic Delegation of Aid Policy.” Journal of Development Economics 79(1): 249-263 (2006).
  • “The Electoral Politics of Public Sector Institutional Reform”. European Journal of Political Economy 18(3): 449-473 (2002).

    • Spring 2011: ECON110, ECON315

    Recent projects:

    • Responsibility for Foreign Debt: Theory and Empirical Investigations (2006-2008), financed by the Research Council of Norway (RCN, project leader).
    • Partnerships for development (2002-2005), financed by RCN.
    • Foreign Aid and Public Spending on Health and Education: a Comparative Study of Impact and Effectiveness (2002), financed by RCN (project leader).

    Work in progress:

    • Dancing the H-Street Waltz? Policy Choice in Aid-Dependent Countries. Working Paper 16/08, Department of Economics, UiB. http://www.uib.no/filearchive/No.%2016-08.pdf
    • The Invisible Handshake in Contracting for Debt: Results from an International Experiment. Paper presented at the 3rd Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics, November 14‐15, 2008, University of Copenhagen (With Alexander W. Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Bertil Tungodden).

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