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Anders Sørensen
Research Fellow, Professor

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Personal data

Date of Birth:  October 24, 1966

Place of Birth:  Copenhagen, Denmark

Nationality:  Danish

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Education

Ph.D. (Econ.), Economic Policy Research Unit, Copenhagen Business Scool, Denmark; 1997.
Title of Thesis: Growth, R&D, and Education.
Supervisor: Professor Peter Birch Sørensen.
Examiners: Professors Ole Risager (Head of Committee), Christian Keuschnigg and Ben Heijdra.

Visiting Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, USA,
1994-95

Cand.oecon., University of Aarhus, Denmark; 1993.
Area of Specialisation: Economic Growth and International Economics

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Employment

Professor, Copenhagen Business School, January 2006 - December 2010

Associate Professor of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, September 2004 - December 2005

Assistant Professor of International Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, International Economics Department, September 2002 - July 2004

Research Fellow, Center for Economic and Business Research, Ministry of Trade and Industry, 1999-2002.

Associate Professor (External) (New Economy), Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2000-January 2001.

Special Advisor, Ministry of Trade and Industry, 1998-99.

COWI Consulting Engineers and Planners, Economist, 1997-98.

Visiting Professor, University of Iceland, 1996.

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Publications

A. Books:
“Denmark and the Information Society: Challenges for Research and Education Policy”, with Svend Erik Hougaard Jensen, Ulrich Kaiser, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, and Jan Rose Skaksen DJØF forlag 2003. Awarded the Grundfos Prize 2003

 

“Growth, R&D, and Education”, (PH.D. dissertation), Copenhagen Business School, 1997

 

B. Refereed Articles:

 

“Entrepreneurship, Job Creation, and Wage Growth”, with Nikolaj Malchow-Møller and Bertel Schjerning, Small Business Economics (forthcoming)

 

“Skill-Upgrading and Internationalization: Country-of-Origin or End-Use of Products”, Economics Letters, Vol. 101 (1), 9-12, 2008

 

“Productivity Measurement in Manufacturing and the Expenditure Approach”, with Bertel Schjerning, Review of International Economics, Vol.16, Issue 2, 327-340, 2008

 

“Inter-industry Wage Differentials and Allocative Inefficiency”, International Economic Journal, Vol.21, No. 1, 1-26, March 2007

 

“R&D Subsidies and the Surplus Appropriability Problem”, The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics, Topics in Macroeconomics, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Article 3, 2006

http://www.bepress.com/bejm/topics/vol6/iss2/art3 

 

“Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: Inference from the Business Cycle”, with Jan Rose Skaksen, The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics, Contributions to Macroeconomics, Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 7, 2005, http://www.bepress.com/bejm/contributions/vol5/iss1/art7 

 

Changing Characteristics of Growth-Generating Processes: R&D and Learning”, L.A. Finley (ed.), “Focus on Economic Growth”, Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2005

 

 

“On the Measurement of Relative Demand Shifts for Educated Labour”, with Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, Economics Letters, 83(2), 245-249, 2004 

 

“R&D, Public Innovation Policy, and Productivity: The Case of Danish Manufacturing”, with Hans Christian Kongsted and Mats Marcusson, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 12(2), 163-178, 2003

 

“Measuring Educational Heterogeneity and Labour Quality: A Note”, with Mogens Fosgerau and Svend E. Hougaard Jensen , Review of Income and Wealth, 48(2), 251-259, 2002

 

“Comparing Apples to Oranges: Productivity Convergence and Measurement Across Industries and Countries: Comment”, American Economic Review, September, 1160-67, 2001

 

“R&D, Learning, and Phases of Economic Growth”, Journal of Economic Growth, 4(4), 429-45, 1999

 

“Policy Rules for Exploitation of Renewable Resources: A Macroeconomic Perspective”, with Tryggvi T. Herbertsson, Environmental and Resource Economics, 12(1), 53-76, 1998

 

Growth-Enhancing Policies in a Small Open Economy”, J. Fagerberg, P. Hansson, L. Lundberg, and A. Melchior (ed.), “Technology and International Trade”, Edward Elgar, 158-76, 1997

 

C. Articles in Danish:
“Denmark and the Information Society: Challenges for Research and Education Policy”, Samfundsøkonomen, with Svend Erik Hougaard Jensen, Ulrich Kaiser, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, and Jan Rose Skaksen, November 2003

 

"Education, Employment and Economic Growth", Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift, 140, 1-17, 2002, with Svend E. Hougaard Jensen

  

“New Economy – IT and Economic Growth”, Samfundsøkonomen, 10-16, 2001:4, with Svend E. Hougaard Jensen

 

“Productivity and R&D: The Case of Danish Manufacturing”, Jensen, S.H. (Ed.), Økonomi og Erhvervspolitik, Handelshøjskolens Forlag, 257-74, 2000, with Svend E. Hougaard Jensen and Torsten Sløk

 

“Is There a Productivity Problem in the Danish Economy?”, Jensen, S.H. (Ed.), Økonomi og Erhvervspolitik, Handelshøjskolens Forlag, 147-70, 2000, with Svend E. Hougaard Jensen and Thomas V. Pedersen

 

“Productivity Growth in Denmark - 1966 to 1998”, Jensen, S.H. (Ed.), Økonomi og Erhvervspolitik, Handelshøjskolens Forlag, s. 115-46, 2000, with Mogens Fosgerau

 

“A Model for Freight Transport Crossing Storebælt”. Trafikdage på Aalborg Universitet, Supplementsrapport, 297-306, 1997

 

D. Working Papers:

“Informationsteknologi og produktivitetsvækst i dansk økonomi” (in Danish), (under revision)

 

“Returns to Schooling in Self-employment”, with Jens Iversen and Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, CEBR DP 2006-19 (submitted)

 

“Optimal Policy under Restricted Government Spending”, CEBR DP 2006-04 (submitted)

 

“Relative Demand for Labour with Different Type and Length of Education: Evidence from Denmark and the USA”, CEBR DP 2004-20, with Svend E. Hougaard Jensen (under revision)

 

“Innovation, Accumulation and the Ranking of Instruments for Foreign Aid”, CEBR DP 2002-3, with Morten I. Lau and Thomas F. Rutherford (under revision)

 

“Decomposition of Economic Growth and Productivity in Denmark”, CEBR DP 2000-2, with Mogens Fosgerau (not published)

 

E. Miscellaneous Writings:

 

“Challenges for Research Policy”, feature article (Kronik), Jyllandsposten, May 20, 2003, with Svend Erik Hougaard Jensen, Ulrich Kaiser, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, and Jan Rose Skaksen

 
“Designing Aid Programmes for Transition Economies – Executive Summary and Report”, Danish Ministry of Trade and Industry, 2001, with Morten Lau 
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Projects
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Research

'Economic Growth, Human Capital, and R&D'

'Technology, Patents and Innovation'
'Globalisation, Industrial Location and Labour Markets'
'Aid Programmes and Transition Economies'
'Denmark and the Information Society: Challenges for Research and Education Policy'
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Miscellaneous

Awards:

Statoil Research Prize in Economics 2005

Grundfos Prize 2003, with Svend Erik Hougaard Jensen, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller and Jan Rose Skaksen. The prize was awarded for the monograph: “Denmark and the Information Society: Challenges for Research and Education Policy”

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