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Morten Igel Lau
Research Fellow

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Office (1):

5th floor Ridley Building

Claremont Road

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE1 7RU

United Kingdom
>T: (+44) 0191 222 5558

>F: (+44) 191 222 6838

>E: morten.lau@newcastle.ac.uk

 

 

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Porcelænshaven 16A

DK-2000 Frederiksberg
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Personal data

Full Name:  Morten Igel Lau

Date of Birth:  December 22, 1966

Place of Birth:  Kolding, Denmark

Nationality:  Danish

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Education
Ph.D (Econ), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2001. Supervisor: Peter Birch Sørensen.

 

Visiting fellow, Harvard University, September 1999 - December 1999.

 

Visiting scholar, University of Colorado, January 1998 - May 1998.

 

M.Sc (Econ), Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 1996. Supervisor: A. Lans Bovenberg

 

B.Sc (Econ), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1994

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Employment

Reader, Durham Business School, Durham University, United Kingdom, October 2007 - present.

 

Lecturer, Durham Business School, Durham University, United Kingdom, September 2005 – October 2007.

 

Research fellow, CEBR, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, September 2004 - present.

 

Associate professor (external), Copenhagen Business School, January 2004 – January 2005. 

 

Research fellow, CEBR, Danish Ministry of Business and Industry, May 2000 – September 2004.

 

Research associate, MobiDK project, Danish Ministry of Business and Industry, October 1996 – May 2000.

 

Research associate, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington D.C.  February 1996 – October 1996.

 

Research assistant, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. August 1995 – February 1996, and April 1992 – September 1994.

 

Teaching assistant, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. September 1995 – December 1995, and September 1993 - December 1993

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Publications

"Lost in State Space: Are Preferences Stable?". International Economic Review. Forthcoming, (with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison and  Elisabet E. Rutström). 

 

"Risk Aversion in Game Shows".  In Risk Aversion in Experiments. Cox, J.C. & Harrison, G.W. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Research in Experimental Economics, Volume 12. Forthcoming, (with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison and  Elisabet E. Rutström).

 

"Estimating Risk Attitudes in Denmark: A Field Experiment", Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 109(2): pp. 341 - 368, 2007, (with Glenn W. Harrison and Elisabet E. Rutström).

 

"Elicitation Using Multiple Price List Formats", Experimental Economics 9(4): pp. 383-405, 2006 (with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison and Elisabet  E. Rutström).

 

"Social Security Incentives and Human Capital Investment", Finnish Economic Papers 19(1): pp. 16-24, 2006, (with Panu Poutvaara).

 

"Is the Evidence for Hyperbolic Discounting in Humans Just an Experimental Artefact?", Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28(5):

pp. 657, 2005, (with Glenn W. Harrison).

 

"Valuation Using Multiple Price List Formats", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2005-11, May 2005, (with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison and E. Elisabet Rutström). Applied Economics 39(6): pp. 675-682, 2007. 

 

"Eliciting Risk and Time Preferences Using Field Experiments: Some Methodological Issues," in J. Carpenter, G.W. Harrison and J.A. List (eds.) Field Experiments in Economics (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Research in Experimental Economics, Volume 10, 2005), (with Glenn W. Harrison, E. Elisabet Rutström and Melonie B. Sullivan).

 

"Dynamic Costs of the Draft," German Economic Review, 5(4), November 2004, 381-406, (with Panu Poutvaara and Andreas Wagenaar).

 

“Efficiency and Equity Aspects of Alternative Social Security Rules,” FinanzArchiv, 60(3), September 2004, (with Svend E. Hougaard Jensen and Panu Poutvaara).

 

"Estimating Individual Discount Rates in Denmark: A Field Experiment,” American Economic Review, 92(5), December 2002, 1606-1617. Reprinted in New Developments in Experimental Economics, 2007, (with Glenn W. Harrison and Melonie B. Williams)


“Approximating Infinite-Horizon Models in a Complementarity Format: A Primer in Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 26(4), 2002, 577-609, (with Andreas Pahlke and Thomas F. Rutherford).


“Policy Reform Without Tears,” in A. Fossati and W. Wiegaard (eds.) Policy Evaluation With Computable General Equilibrium Models (New York, NY: Routledge, 2002), (with Glenn W. Harrison, Jesper Jensen and Thomas F. Rutherford).


“Assessing Tax Reforms When Human Capital is Endogenous,” in Glenn W. Harrison, Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, L.H. Pedersen and Thomas F. Rutherford (eds.) Using Dynamic General Equilibrium Models for Policy Analysis (Amsterdam, NL: North Holland, 2000).


“Mozambique: Macroeconomic Performance and Critical Development Issues,” in L. Petersson (ed.) Post-Apartheid Southern Africa: Economic Challenges and Policies for the Future (London, UK: Routledge, 1998). (with Finn Tarp).


“En strukturøkonomisk model: MobiDK,” (A Neoclassical Model: MobiDK) in S.E.H. Jensen (ed.) Økonomi og Erhvervspolitik (Copenhagen, DK: Handelshøjskolens Forlag, 1999), (with Anders N. Hoffmann and Alice H. Klynge).


“Samfundsøkonomiske virkninger af øgede bevillinger til innovation,” (Economic Effects of Increased Subsidies to Innovation) in Svend E. Hougaard Jensen (ed.) Økonomi og Erhvervspolitik (Copenhagen, DK: Handelshøjskolens Forlag, 1999), (with Anders N. Hoffmann and Tobias N. Rasmussen).


“Fordelingseffekter af kapitalindkomstskatter på tværs af generationer -- en anvendt generel ligevægtanalyse,” (Distributional Effects of Capital Income Taxes Across Generations – an Applied General Equilibrium Analysis), Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift, 131(3), 1993, 314-331.

 

 

Working Papers

 

"Behavioral Econometrics for Psychologists", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2007-16, (with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison and Elisabet E. Rutström). Revise and resubmit.

 

"Dynamic Choice Behavior in a Natural Experiment?", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2006-14, October 2006, (with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison and E. Elisabet Rutström). Refereeing proces. .

 

"Dual Criteria Decisions", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2006-15, October 2006, (with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison and Elisabet E. Rutström). Under Revision.

 

"Eliciting Risk and Time Preferences", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2005-16, July 2005, (with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison and E. Elisabet Rutström). Revise and Resubmit.

 

"Preferences Over Social Risk", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2005-07, April 2005, (with Glenn W. Harrison, E. Elisabeth Rutström and Marcela Tarazona-Gómez). Refereeing process.

 

"Dynamic Consistency in Denmark: A Longitudinal Field Experiment", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2005-06, February 2005, (with Glenn W. Harrison and Elisabeth E. Rutström). Refereeing process.

 

"Risk Attitudes, Randomization to Treatment, and Self-Selection Into Experiments", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2005-04, February 2005, (with Glenn W. Harrison and Elisabet E. Rutström). Revise and Resubmit.

 

"Preference Heterogeneity in Experiments: Comparing the Field and Lab", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2005-03, March 2005, (with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison and Elisabet E. Rutström). Revise and Resubmit.

 

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Projects
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Research

Economic Policy Research Unit, University of Copenhagen (Dkr: 300.000): Characterizing Entrepreneurs in Denmark, January 2006 - December 2006. Principal Investigator (Co-Principal Investigators: Glenn W. Harrison and Lise Vesterlund).

 

Danish Social Science Research Council (Dkr: 2.700.000): Individual Discount Rates and Time Consistency: Laboratory and Field Experiments in Denmark, July 2002 - July 2005. Principal Investigator. (Co-Principal Investigators: Glenn W. Harrison and Melonie B. Sullivan).

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Presentations

Conference and Workshop Organisation:

Conference CO-organizer (With Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Søren Bo Nielsen and Bertel Schjerning), Entrepreneurship: Occupational Choice and Financing, CEBR, Copenhagen, June 2006.

 

Conference Co-Organizer (with Glenn W. Harrison), Measuring Risk and Time Preferences, CEBR, Copenhagen, June 2004.

  

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