Theis Theisen

Current research is mainly concentrated on:

- empirical housing economics

- urban economics

- empirical analyses of the allocation of long-term care

- empirical social choice.

• Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics
• International economics
• Public Economics
• Public sector budgeting
• Industrial organization
• Health economics and health economics management
• Labour economics
• Elementary econometrics
• Real estate economics
• Supervision of master thesis

Professor of economics, University of Agder since 2011.

Associate professor, University of Agder 1987‑2011.

Director of Budget and Finance, Aust‑Agder County 1984‑1987.

Assistant professor, Agder University College 1980‑1984.

Senior consultant/ consultant, The Norwegian Ministry of Finance (Secretariat of Long-Term Planning and Coordination), 1977‑1980.

Visiting Scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara (1998-99).

Visiting Scholar, Real Estate Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Spring 1993).

Visiting Scholar, University of Wisconsin‑Madison (1988-89).

Visiting Scholar, University of Bielefeld (Several brief visits 2001-2010).

Visiting Scholar, University of Osnabrück (Brief visits 2000 and 2002).

Researcher, Institute of Industrial Economics, Bergen 1976‑1977.

Trainee, Institut za ekonomska raziskovanje (research institute), Ljubljana, Slovenia 1974.

Assistant, The Norwegian Minestry of the Environment 1973‑1974, working on a national plan for the use of water resources.

Trainee, Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG , Winterthur, Switzerland, 1972.

Current research is mainly concentrated on empirical housing economics, urban economics, empirical analyses of the allocation of long-term care, and empirical social choice.

Professor Theisen is currently involved in three groups of research projects:

· Care for the needy: A large research project on the allocation of long term care services to individuals, and on municipalities allocation of resources to the different branches of the long-term care sector. This research is both theoretical and empirical.

· Real estate research: This covers a large set of subprojects, mainly related to housing. This research is to some extent theoretical, but mainly empirical.

· Empirical social choice

Research groups:

· Health Economics (Professor Theisen leader of the group)

(https://www.uia.no/en/research/handelshoeyskolen/health-economics)

· Real Estate: Economics and Law (Professor Theisen member=

(https://www.uia.no/forskning/handelshoeyskolen/real-estate-economics-law)

“House prices and proximity to kindergarten – costs of distance and external effect? (With Anne Wenche Emblem). Journal of Property Research 38(4), 2018. DOI 10.1080/09599916.2018.1513057.

“Efficiency and justice in the market for cooperative dwellings” (With Silje Eretveit). International Real Estate Review, 19(3), (297-326), 2016.

“What Makes People Nursing Home Residents: Individual Need or Municipalities' Supply?  Chapter 11 in Gonzalo Caballero and Norman Schofield (Eds.), State, Institutions and  Democracy. Contributions of Political Economy (251-270): Springer 2016.

“State Dependence in Sequential Equity Judgements” (With Jochen Jungeilges). Social  Choice and Welfare, 37(1), (97-119), 2011. DOI: 10.1007/s00355-010-0482-5.

“Financial Arrangements, Housing Prices and Home Ownership,” (With Karl Robertsen).  Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 43(3), (371-392), 2011. DOI:  10.1007/s11146-009-9213-z.

“Multiple-Job-Holding in Tanzania,” in R. Kanbur and J. Svejnar (Eds.): Labor Markets and Economic Development, Chapter 9, (176-196), 2009. Routledge.

“A Comparative Study of Equity Judgements in Lithuania and Norway,” (With Jochen Jungeilges). The Journal of Socio-Economics, 37(3), (1090-1118), 2008.

“Tanzanian formal sector worker’s participation in informal production,” Applied Economics, 37(21), (2469-2485), 2005.

“Equity Judgements Elicited Through Experiments: An Econometric Examination,” (With Jochen Jungeilges). Chapter 10 in B. Agarwal and A. Vercelli (Eds.): Psychology, Rationality and Economic Behaviour: Challenging Standard Assumptions, (195-241). Palgrave Macmillen, New York 2005.

“Uncertainty and systematic bias in provision of social benefits by a public bureaucracy,” European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 13(3), , (639-659), 1997.

Professor Theisen gives regularly interviews to newspapers and regional radio/tv, in particular on issues relatred to shopping centres, housing and urban development.

He has for many years organized interviews by media in order to communicate results from master thesis to the public.