Department of Economics and Finance

The department comprises the two subject areas of economics and finance. The department's research topics include game theory, the benefits of early educational investments, the national budget, stock markets, environmental economics, and energy economics.

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The Department of Economics and Finance members teach in the bachelor and master programs at the UiS Business School. They are highly sought after as external lecturers and expert consultants in both the private and the public sectors. They are involved as partners in research projects both nationally and internationally and research a wide variety of subjects:
Behavioral and experimental economics; Labor and education economics; Energy, natural resources, & environmental economics; Energy finance and commodity markets; Corporate finance and governance; Microstructures of financial markets, Macroeconomic policies; Applied econometric frontiers (machine learning, natural language processing, etc.).

Faculty profiles

Professor i samfunnsøkonomi
51831674
EOJ 244
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Førsteamanuensis i finans
51833739
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Postdoktor i samfunnsøkonomi
51831384
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Professor i samfunnsøkonomi
51833729
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Professor i regnskap og økonomistyring
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Førsteamanuensis i samfunnsøkonomi
51833771
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Professor i markedsanalyse
51833716
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Professor i økonomi
51833721
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Førsteamanuensis i finans
51833777
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Professor i finans
51833787
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Førsteamanuensis
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Professor i økonomi
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Førsteamanuensis i finans
51832338
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Førsteamanuensis i psykologi
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Professor II i økonomi
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Førsteamanuensis i finans
51831671
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Førsteamanuensis i finans
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Professor i samfunnsøkonomi
51831525
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Forsker
51831531
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Postdoktor i samfunnsøkonomi
51831571
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Førsteamanuensis II i finans
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Postdoktor i samfunnsøkonomi
EOJ 211
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Avdelingsleder
51833752
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Postdoktor i samfunnsøkonomi
51831950
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Forsker i samfunnsøkonomi
51831985
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Postdoktor i samfunnsøkonomi
51831986
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Postdoktor i samfunnsøkonomi
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance

Ph.D. Candidates

Stipendiat i samfunnsøkonomi
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Stipendiat
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Stipendiat i samfunnsøkonomi
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Stipendiat i finans eller samfunnsøkonomi – ESG/grønn omstilling
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Næringslivsstipendiat
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Stipendiat i finans
51831607
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Stipendiat i finans
51831686
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Stipendiat i samfunnsøkonomi
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Stipendiat i samfunnsøkonomi
51831957
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Stipendiat i samfunnsøkonomi
51831951
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance
Stipendiat i samfunnsøkonomi
51831981
UiS Business School
Department of Economics and Finance

Department of Economics and Finance Seminars

UiS Business School Seminar: How Uncertainty Shapes the Spatial Economy

Wed. 18.10.2023

12:15-13:15

Elise Ottesen-Jensens Hus
EOJ 276/277

UiS Business School Seminar: The Birth of a Multinational: Innovation and Foreign Acquisitions

Wed. 01.11.2023

12:15-13:15

Elise Ottesen-Jensens Hus
EOJ 276/277

UiS Business School Seminar: Product ratings and externalities

Wed. 15.11.2023

12:15-13:15

Elise Ottesen-Jensens Hus
EOJ 276/277

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Head of Department
Venke Furre Haaland

Associate Professor E-mail: venke.f.haaland@uis.no Phone: 51833752 Office: EOJ 215

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Contact
Visiting address

Campus Ullandhaug Elise Ottesen-Jensens house, 2. floor Kjell Arholms gate 35 N-4021 Stavanger

Phone

+47 51 83 15 55

Postal address

University of Stavanger UiS Business School N-4036 Stavanger Norway

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