Kjell Arne Brekke
Associate 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:	1032
	Hours available:	By appointment
	Phone:	+47 2284 1169, +47 2285 5127 (reception)
	Fax:	+47 2285 5035
	Email:	k.a.brekke@econ.uio.no
	Homepage:	http://folk.uio.no/kjellbre/

Background

CV

Teaching and tutoring

Behavioral economics, microeconomics, finance, game theory, mathematics

Spring 09: ECON2200 Matematikk 1/Mikro 1 (MM1), ECON4910 Environmental Economics

Autumn 08: ECON2915 Vekst og næringsstruktur, ECON4235 Microeconomic Theory

Special fields

Behavioral economics, advertising, experimental economics, resource economics, environmental economics, real options and stochastic analysis

Selected publications

• Kjell Arne Brekke and Karine Nyborg (2008), Attracting Responsible Employees: Green Production as Labor Market Screening , Resource and Energy Economics, forthcoming
• Kjell Arne Brekke and Mari Rege, Advertising as distorted social learning , Memorandum 23/2006, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway, forthcoming in The BE-journal of Theoretical Economics - Topics.
• Kjell Arne Brekke, Karine Nyborg and Mari Rege, The fear of exclusion: Individual effort when group formation is endogenous, forthcoming in Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
• Kjell Arne Brekke, Bernt Øksendal and Nils Chr. Stenseth, The effect of climate variations on the dynamics of pasture-livestock interactions under cooperative and non-cooperative management , Proceedings for the National Academy of Science (PNAS), vol 104, 2007, 14730-14734.
• Kjell Arne Brekke, Richard B. Howart and Karine Nyborg, Status-seeking and material affluence: evaluating the Hirsch hypothesis , Ecological Economics, 45, 2003, 29-39.
• Kjell Arne Brekke, Snorre Kverndokk and Karine Nyborg, An economic model of moral motivation , Journal of Public Economics, 87, 2003, 1967-1983
• Kjell Arne Brekke and Erling Moxnes, Do numerical simulation and optimization results improve management? Experimental evidence , Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 50, 2003, 117-131.
• Geir Asheim and Kjell Arne Brekke, Sustainability when capital management has stochastic consequences , Social Choice and Welfare, 19, 2002, 921-940.
• Kjell Arne Brekke, R. Howarth, "Socially contingent wants", Land Economics, Vol 76, 2000, 493-503.
• Kjell Arne Brekke, The numéraire matters in cost-benefit analysis , Journal of Public Economics, 64, 1996, 117-123.

Working papers

• Kjell Arne Brekke and Karine Nyborg, Attracting responsible employees: Green production as labor market screening .
• Kjell Arne Brekke and Mari Rege, Advertising as distortion of learning in markets with network externalities , Memorandum 24/2006, Department of Economics, University of Oslo.
• Kjell Arne Brekke, Gorm Kipperberg and Karine Nyborg, Reluctant recyclers: Social interaction in responsibility ascription , Memorandum 16/2007, Department of Economics, University of Oslo.
• Kjell Arne Brekke and Karine Nyborg (2007), Selfish bakers, caring nurses? A model of work motivation , ESOP working paper.

Listings in databases

• Frida
• Bibsys