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Current Position

• Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Lund university (October 2009 - present)

Previous Positions

• Senior Lecturer, Depatrment of Economics, Lund University (January 2009 - September 2009)
• Research Fellow, Department of Economics, Lund University (October 2004 - December 2008)
• Ph.D Student, Department of Economics, Lund University (September 1999 - September 2004)  

Degrees and Diplomas

• September 2004: Ph.D. in Economics, Lund University
• August 1999: Master of Science in Economics, University of Karlstad
• September 1998: Bachelor of Science in Economics, University of Karlstad

Awards

• May 2009: Awarded Bergestipendiet
• March 2006: Awarded "Best Teacher at Lund University in 2005"
• July 2005: Awarded the prestigious Jan Wallander Post-Doc Stipend
• November 2005: Awarded "Best Teacher at the School of Economics and Management in 2005" (Lund University)
• December 1999: Awarded Värmlandsekonomernas Specialpris for "Best Student at the Faculty of Business and Economics in 1999"
• December 1999: Awarded the KEY Prize for "Best M.Sc. Thesis at the Faculty of Business and Economics in 1999"

Nominations

• November 2006: Nominated for "Best Teacher at the School of Economics and Management in 2006" (Lund University)
• January 2005: My Ph.D. Thesis was nominated for "Best Ph.D. Thesis at the School of Economics and Management in 2004" (Lund University)
• October 2004: Nominated for "Best Teacher at the School of Economics and Management in 2004" (Lund University)
• May 2004: Nominated for the "Best Teacher at Lund University in 2003"

Monographs

• Andersson, T. (2004) Essays on Nonlinear Pricing and Welfare, Lund Economic Studies 121, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Economics, Lund University

Publications in international journals

• Andersson T. Svensson L-G, Yang Z (forthcoming) "Constrainedly Fair Job Assignment under Minimum Wages", Games and Economic Behavior
• Andersson T. (2009) "A General Strategy-Proof Fair Allocation Mechanism Revisited", Economics Bulletin 29, 1719-1724
• Andersson T., Andersson C. (2009) "Solving House Allocation Problems with Risk-Averse Agents", Computational Economics 33, 389-401
• Andersson T., Svensson L-G. (2008) "Non-manipulable Assignment of Individuals to Positions Revisited", Mathematical Social Sciences 56, 350-354
• Andersson T. (2008) "Nonlinear Pricing and Equality of Opportunity", Metroeconomica 59, 541-556
• Andersson T. (2008) "Efficiency Properties of Nonlinear Pricing Schedules without the Single-Crossing Condition" Economics Letters 99, 364-366
• Andersson T., Svensson L-G. (2008) "Weakly Fair Allocations and Strategy-proofness", Review of Economic Design 11, 321-338
• Andersson T. (2007) "Nonlinear Pricing as a Cooperative Game" Metroeconomica 58, 503-513
• Andersson T. (2007) "An Algorithm for Identifying Fair and Optimal Allocations" Economics Letters 96, 337-342
• Andersson T. (2007) "A Note on Nonlinear Income Taxes and the Utility Possibility Set" Economics Bulletin 8, 1-8
• Andersson T. (2007) "Nonlinear Taxation and Punishment" International Journal of Economic Theory 3, 49-58
• Andersson T. (2005) "Profit Maximizing Nonlinear Pricing" Economics Letters 88, 135-139

Popular Science (in Swedish)

• Andersson, T., Svensson, L-G (2008) "Effektiva hyror - En tillämpning av teorin för Mechanism Design", Ekonomisk Debatt 2008: 1 (The Journal of the Swedish Economic Association), 47-58
• Andersson, T., Svensson, L-G (2008), "Mechanism Design och bostadsmarknaden - En replik till Hans Lind", Ekonomisk Debatt 2008:8 (The Journal of the Swedish Economic Association), 60-61

Work in Progess

• Andersson, T. Andersson, C. "Properties of the DGS-Auction Algorithm"
• Andersson, T. Svensson, L-G "Weak Fairness in a Three-Agent Assignment Model"
• Andersson, T., Andersson, O. "Testing for Coalitionally Strategy-Proofness: An Experiment"
• Andersson, T., Svensson, L-G., "Coalitionally Strategy-proof Allocation of Indivisible Objects on Weakly Competitive Markets", Working Paper, Department of Economics, Lund University
• Andersson, T, Hjertstrand, P. "A Generalized Afriat’s Theorem", Working Paper, Department of Economics, Lund University
• Andersson, T. (2005) "Nonlinear Pricing and the Utility Possibility Set", Working Paper 2005:19, Department of Economics, Lund University
• Andersson, T. (2004)  "Nonlinear Pricing under a Balanced-Budget Requirement: The Two-Type Case", Working Paper 2004:21, Department of Economics, Lund University

Participation in Research projects

• Governing transitions towards Low-Carbon Energy and Transport Systems for 2050 (financed by Naturvårdsverket, Energimyndigheten, Vinnova och Vägverket, January 2009 - present)
• Effektiv utformninga av kontrakt vid offentlig upphandling (financed by the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, July 2008 - present)
• Allocation Rules in a Strategic Environment (financed by the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, July 2006 - December 2008)
• Decision Mechanisms and Allocation Rules (financed by the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, July 2002 - June 2006)
• Distributive Justice and the Modern Welfare State (financed by the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, September 2001 - June 2004)

Conference Organization

• "The Arne Ryde Foundation Symposium on Mechanism Design: Properties of allocation mechanisms and voting procedures", Department of Economics, Lund University (September 12 -13, 2008)
• "Distributed Decisions via Games and Price Mechanisms", Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems, Lund University (February 22 - March 26, with a workshop March 10-12, 2010)

Referee Assignments

• American Economic Review, Computational Economics, Economic Theory, European Economic Review, IBM Journal of Research and Development, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Design, Social Choice and Welfare
• Reviewer for a textbook at Prentice-Hall (2002)

Selected Conference Participation

• 2009: Society for Economic Design (Maastricht, Holland)
• 2008: International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (Montreal, Canada), The Arne Ryde Symposium on Mechanism Design (Lund, Sweden)
• 2007: Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory conference on Current Trends in Economics (Kos, Greece), Association for Public Economic Theory Conference (Nashville, USA)
• 2006: International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (Istanbul, Turkey)
• 2003: Public Choice Anual Meeting (Nashville, USA) 
• 2002: The Arne Ryde Summer School in Economic Theory (Lund, Sweden)
• 2001: South-East Economic Theory and International Economics Conference (Miami, USA)

Selected Invited Lectures

• 2009: Uppsala University (Department of Economics), Lund University (Department of Automatic Control)
• 2008: Tilburg University (CentER of Economic Research)
• 2006: University of Copenhagen (Department of Economics), University of Karlstad (Department of Economics), Lund University (Centre for Mathematical Sciences)

Supervision of PHD-Students

• Alexander Reffgen (co-supervisor)
• Gustav Engström (main supervisor)

Selected Teaching

• Mathematics for Economic Analysis: Spring 2000, Fall 2000
• Advanced Mathematical Methods I: Spring 2000 (teaching assistant)
• Pricing Cost-Sharing and Implementation: Fall 2000 (teaching assistant)
• Information, Risk and Uncertainty: Fall 2002 (teaching assistant)
• Linear Economic Models: Spring 2001 (teaching assistant)
• Mathematics for Economic Analysis: Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004
• Mathematical Methods - Static Optimization: Fall 2003 (teaching assistant), Spring 2004 (teaching assistant), Fall 2004 (teaching assistant), Fall 2005 (teaching assistant), Spring 2006 (teaching assistant), Fall 2006 (teaching assistant)
• Microeconomic Analysis C: Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Falll 2006, Spring 2007
• Microeconomics for Matemathematicians: Spring 2005 (teaching assistant), Spring 2006 (teaching assistant)
• Microeconomic Analysis B: Spring 2007, Fall 2007
• Microeconomic Theory with Applications: Spring 2009, Fall 2009
• Strategi och styrsystem: Fall 2009

Selected Teaching Meterials

• "Föreläsningsanteckningar Mikroekonomisk analys B" (104 pages), Department of Economics, Lund University
• "Övningar i Mikroekonomisk analys B" (98 pages), Department of Economics, Lund University (with O. Andersson)
• "Matematik för ekonomisk analys" (216 pages), Department of Economics, Lund University
• "Övningar för mikroekonomisk analys C" (52 pages), Department of Economics, Lund University
• "Mikroekonomi för teknisk matematik" (148 pages), Department of Economics, Lund University (with R. Rander)

University Teacher Training

• Högskolepedagogik (spring 2006, Department of Education, Lund University, 10 weeks, passed with distinction)
• Forskarhandledning (spring 2008, Centre for Educational Development, Lund University)

Scholarships and Grants Recieved

• May 2009: received a travel grant from Stiftelsen Partnerskapet
• July 2008: Awarded an six month research grant from the project "Decision Mechanisms and Allocation Rules"
• May 2008: received a travel grant from Stiftelsen Partnerskapet
• May 2007: received a travel grant from Stiftelsen Partnerskapet
• July 2004: Awarded an one-year research grant from the project "Decision Mechanisms and Allocation Rules"
• Januari 2004: Awarded a six month research grant from the project "Distributive and the Modern Welfare state"
• July 2002: Awarded an one and a half year research grant from the project "Decision Mechanisms and Allocation Rules"
• June 2001: Awarded a scholarship from the "Crafoord Foundation"
• November 2001: Awarded a scholarship from "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences" (C.C. Söderströms donationsfond)
• October 2001: Awarded a scholarship from "Knut and Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse"
• September 2001: Awarded a ten month research grant from the project "Distributive and the Modern Welfare state"
• September 1999: Awarded a two-year research grant from "Stiftelsen för främjande av ekonomiska studier vid Lunds Universitet"
• May 1997: Awarded a Minor Field Study Scholarship from Sida (Swedish Agency for Development Cooperation).

Planning and Leadership

• Administrative and pedagogical responsibility for the distance education at basic level, Department of Economics, Lund University (August 2007 - present).
• Deputy member of the Board, Department of Economics, Lund University (2009 - present)