Professor, lic.oecon., PhD
School of Economics and Management
Room 323, Building 1326
Education: MSc 1981, lic.oecon.
1984, PhD 1986
Position: Professor, 1989
Administrative Assistant: Birgitte Højklint
Nielsen
Torben M. Andersen is Professor at the School of Economics and Management. He
received his PhD from CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1986, and
holds a Lic. Oecon (1984) from University of Aarhus, and a MSc, fromLondon
School of Economics 1981. His primary research and teaching interests are in the
economics of the welfare state, labour economics and fiscal policy. He is
affiliated to a number of research institutions including CEPR (London), CESifo
(Munich), Iza (Bonn), SNS (Stockholm) and the Kiel Institute. Torben M. Andersen
has been intensively involved in policy advice in Denmark and abroad, and he has
among other things been chairman of the Danish Economic Council,and the Danish
Welfare Commission. He is currently a member of the Swedish fiscal policy
council
- Economics of the welfare state
- Macroeconomics
- Labour Economics
- Scandinavian welfare model
- Labour market policy
- Ageing and fiscal sustainability
- Globalization
- Increasing longevity and social security reforms - a legislative procedure approach, Journal of Public Economics. To appear
- The Scandinavian Model - Prospects and Challenges, International Tax and Public Finance, Special Issue, 2008, 15:45-66.
- Financial restraints in a mature welfare state - the case of Denmark, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2006 (joint with Lars Haagen Pedersen)
- International Interdependencies in Fiscal Stabilization Policies (with Morten Spange), European Economic Review. 2006, 50, 1169-1195
- International transmission of transitory and persistent monetary shocks under imperfect information, (with Niels C. Beier), Journal of International Economics, 2005 66, 485-507.
- Nominal and real propagation of nominal shocks, Economic Journal, 2004, 174-195.