Diderik Lund
Professor

	Postal address:	Department of Economics University of Oslo P.O. Box 1095, Blindern NO-0317 Oslo, Norway
	Visiting address:	Eilert Sundt building (Reception: Room 1240) Moltke Moes vei 31 NO-0851 Oslo, Norway
	Room:	ES1128
	Hours available:	Tuesdays 11:00-12:30
	Phone:	+47 22855129 (direct), +47 22855127 (reception)
	Fax:	+47 22855035
	Email:	diderik.lund@econ.uio.no
	Homepage:	http://folk.uio.no/dilund/

Background

Master's degree in economics from the University of Bergen, Norway, 1981, and Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. Employed by the University of Oslo, since 1987 as Associate Professor, since 2001 as Professor of Economics. Elected Head of the Department of Economics 2005-2007.

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Teaching and tutoring

Autumn 09: ECON4510 Finance theory

Finance, microeconomics

Special fields

Taxation and regulation of natural resource extraction industries. Taxation of firms in general. Investment decisions.

Ongoing and planned research projects at Department of Economics

Effect of taxation with imperfect loss offset on required rates of return after tax, under uncertainty.

Selected publications

Publications

• Diderik Lund, "Rent taxation for nonrenewable resources," December 1, 2008, Annual Review of Resource Economics, vol. 1, 2009, pp. 287-308, here
• Diderik Lund, "Neutral company taxation under uncertainty, with some experiences from the petroleum sectors of Norway and Denmark," R. Påhlsson (ed.), Yearbook for Nordic Tax Research 2006, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, Norway, 2006, pp. 116–123, here
• Diderik Lund, "How to analyze the investment–uncertainty relationship in real option models?", Review of Financial Economics, vol. 14, 2005, pp. 311–322, here
• Diderik Lund and Tore Nilssen, "Cream skimming, dregs skimming, and pooling: On the dynamics of competitive screening," Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory, vol. 29, 2004, pp. 23–41, here
• Diderik Lund, "Petroleum tax reform proposals in Norway and Denmark," Energy Journal, vol 23, no. 4, 2002, pp. 37–56, here
• Diderik Lund, "Taxation, uncertainty, and the cost of equity," International Tax and Public Finance, vol. 9, no. 4, 2002, pp. 483-503, here
• Diderik Lund, "Rent taxation when cost monitoring is imperfect," Resource and Energy Economics, vol. 24, no. 3, June 2002, pp. 211–228, here
• Erik Fjærli and Diderik Lund, "The choice between owner's wages and dividends under the dual income tax," Finnish Economic Papers, vol. 14, no. 2, Autumn 2001, pp. 104 – 119, here
• Diderik Lund, "Petroleumsskatt — flere uavklarte spørsmål," (Petroleum taxation — further undecided issues), Økonomisk Forum, vol. 55, no. 9, 2001, pp. 34 – 40.

Working papers

• Diderik Lund, "Marginal versus average beta of equity, and the risk of depreciation tax shields," (previous titles "An analytical model of required returns to equity under taxation with imperfect loss offset" and "Marginal versus average beta of equity under corporate taxation"), revised November 16, 2009, here
• Diderik Lund, "Valuation, leverage and the cost of capital in the case of depreciable assets: Revisited," revised version, June 3, 2003, working paper no. 3-2003, Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, here

Listings in databases

• Frida

• Bibsys