Trond Christian Vigtel Contact The Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research Telephone: (+47) 94 24 82 82 Information Gaustadalleen 21, NO-0349 Oslo, Norway E-mail: [email protected] Interests Labor Economics, Public Economics, Microeconometrics Education University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Ph.D., Economics (expected graduation date: August 2019) • Dissertation topic: Understanding Retirement Decisions • Advisors: Simen Markussen (The Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research) M. Phil., Economics, June 2015 • Thesis title: The Heterogeneous Costs of Job Displacement – The Case of Firm Closures in Norway (link) • Advisors: Tarjei Havnes (Department of Economics, University of Oslo) and Knut Røed (The Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research / Department of Economics, University of Oslo) B.A., Economics, June 2013 B.A., Political Science, June 2012 Honors and Master Thesis of the Year 2015 – Microeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Awards Oslo, 2015 The ESOP Scholarship, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, 2014 – 2015 The Ragnar Frisch Scholarship, The Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, 2014 – 2015 Academic University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Experience Graduate Student August 2015 – present Includes current Ph.D. research, Ph.D. level coursework and research projects. Research Assistant January 2013 – January 2015 Work with two academic books, Hydropower Economics by Finn Førsund and Videregående emner i økonometri by Gunnar Bårdsen and Ragnar Nymoen, and various other research projects. Publications Vigtel, T. C., K. Røed, E. Fevang and S. Markussen (2015): “Bevegelser inn i, mellom og ut av NAVs ytelser”, Frischrapport 3/2015 (forthcoming). Computer Skills • Statistical Packages: Stata/SE 14.1, SAS 9.4. • Applications: LATEX, Windows Office 2013, MathType 6.9, MATLAB R2013b. Last updated: 14/01/2016