Associate Professor

MSc (Econ) 

Research Area

• Relations between international trade and FDI in transition economies
• Theoretical foreign trade models with vertical and horizontal product differentiation
• Horizontal versus vertical product differentiation in empirical intra-industry trade models
• The external trade policy of the EU: The case of anti-dumping policy
• Firm heterogeneity and international trade in oligopoly models
• The political economy of the EU trade policy

Academic Experience

• Associate Professor, Department of Economics, The Aarhus School of Business, 2006-
• Associate Professor, Department of Management and International Business, The Aarhus School of Business, 2004-2005
• Associate Professor, Department of International Business, The Aarhus School of Business, 1989-2004
• Associate Professor, Department of Economics, The Aarhus School of Business, 1981-1989
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, The Aarhus School of Business, 1975-1981
• Visiting Professor, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalization and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham, UK, May-June 2007
• Visiting Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand, February-April 2007
• Visiting Professor, San Francisco State University, USA, May-June 1999
• Visiting Professor, the Technical University, Ostrava, Czech Republic, April 1993
• Visiting Professor, the Janus Pannonius University of Pécs, Hungary, June 1992

Administrative Experience

• Responsible for new master program in International Economic Consulting, 2006 -
• Responsible for Bio-technology and Business Economics education (cooperation between ASB and the Science Faculty at University of Aarhus), 2000-2006
• Head of the Department of International Business, 1995-1998
• Member of the Center for International Relations, Faculty of Business Administration, 1992-1997
• Responsibility for student and teacher exchange programs among a number of universities and business schools in and outside Europe
• Member of the Study Committee for Graduate Programs, Faculty of Business Administration, 1977-1978 and 1986-1987
• Head of the Department of Economics, The Aarhus School of Business, 1981

Other Professionel Activities

• Member of Research Project - Globalization and Industry Dynamics: Theory and Evidence of Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade. Funded by the Danish Social Science Council, Denmark (2006-2009)
• Co-organizer, Third Danish International Economics Workshop, Aarhus School of Business, June 2007. Funded by the Danish Social Science Council and the Hedorf Foundation
• Co-organizer, Second Danish International Economics Workshop, Aarhus School of Business, May 2006. Funded by the Danish Social Science Council and the Hedorf Foundation
• Co-organizer, Workshop on Understanding India, Aarhus School of Business, November 2005. Funded by the Danish Social Research Council and the Hedorf Foundation.
• Co-organizer, First Danish International Economics Workshop, Aarhus School of Business, March 2005. Funded by the Aarhus School of Business
• Program chair, International Business and Economy Conference, San Fransisco, USA, January 2002
• Co-ordinator of the research group International Economic Integration, 2005
• Teacher at the Aarhus-Shenyang Summer School (in Shenyang China and in Aarhus Denmark), 2000-2004
• Member of the Examiners Corps in Economics, Denmark, 1985 -

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