Sinn to give Sandmo Lecture

Professor Hans-Werner Sinn from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich gives The Sandmo Lecture at NHH January 12th. His lecture is titled The Financial Crisis.

06.01.2009 - Hallvard Lyssand

The Sandmo Lecture on Public Policy was established at NHH in 2008 in honour of Professor Agnar Sandmo. Sandmo is among Norway's foremost researchers in economics, and he has published influential work in a number of fields.

This year's Sandmo-lecturer is Professor Hans-Werner Sinn from the University of Munich, where he, among other positions, holds the chair for economics and public finance. Sinn is among Germany's most influential researchers in his field.

The title of his lecture is The Financial Crisis.

Professor Sandmo does not know details about Sinn's lecture, but says that Sinn usually tends to be clear spoken and highly quotable, also for non-economists.

Sinn's research spans a large area. When asked to point out some of his colleague's areas of interest from recent years, Professor Sandmo mentions Sinn's work on alternative economic sytems and environment and resource economy.

At the same time as the establishment of The Sandmo Lecture NHH also established a guest scholarship for promising researchers under the age of 40. This year's recipient of The Sandmo Junior Visiting Fellowship in Public Policy is Odd Rune Straume (b. 1971).

Straume is currently Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Minho in Portugal. Among his main research interests are industrial organisation, labour markets and globalisation and competition and regulation in health care markets.

The recipient of the guest scholarship is invited to visit the department of economics at NHH for a month and to give a guest lecture. Straume's lecture is titled Regulation, generic competition and pharmaceutical prices: theory and evidence from a natural experiment, and takes place on Tuesday January 13th.