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Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Lund University
P.O. Box 7082,
SE – 220 07 Lund
Sweden

Tel (office): +46 46 2228652
Tel (Home): +46 46 2115895
Fax (office): +46 46 2224118
e-mail: carl_hampus.lyttkens@nek.lu.se

Birth: April 21^st, 1955
Nationality: Swedish

Education/degrees

• Docent in Economics, Lund University, 1992
• PhD in Economics, Lund University, 1986
• BA in (i.a.) Mathematics and Art History, Lund University, 1976

Main positions

• Professor, Dept of Economics, Lund University, 2000-
• Senior Research Fellow, The Swedish Medical Research Council/Dept of Community Medicine, Lund University, 1994-2000.
• Associate Professor, Dept of Economics, Lund University, 1989-2000
• Acting Professor of Public Economics, Dept of Economics, Lund University, 1994
• Assistant Professor, Dept of Community Medicine, Lund University, 1991-93
• Assistant Professor, Dept of Economics, Lund University, 1986-1992

Selected administrative duties

• Member of the Board of Lund University Libraries, 2012-
• Chairman of the Board of the Library of the School of Economics and Management, Lund University, 1997-
• Deputy member of the Board for appointing new faculty members of the School of Economics and Management, 2009-
• Member of the Board of the Department of Community Medicine, Lund University, 1996-2000
• Deputy Head of the Department of Economics, Lund University, 1988-91
• Member of the Board of the Department of Economics, Lund University, 1985-90, 2003-2008
• Vice-chairman of the Board of the Faculties of Arts and Theology ("Förvaltningsnämnden"), Lund University, 1979-81

Supervision of PhD students

A. Current

• Ida Johansson (behaviour and chronic illnesses; assistant supervisor PhD  Katarina Steen Carlsson)
• Åsa Ljungwall (income and obesity; assistant supervisor Professor Ulf Gerdtham)
• Richard Desjardins (labour markeet segmentation; assistant supervisor PhD Martin Nordin)

B. Completed

• GustavTinghög, Linköping University (Lyttkens assistant supervisor)
• Nils Janlöv, Measuring efficiency in the Swedish health care ector, Lund 2010, PhD thesis (assistant supervisor: Professor Fredrik Andersson),
• Therese Nilsson, Inequality, globalization and health, Lund 2009, PhD thesis (assistant supervisor: PhD Andreas Bergh)
• Nils Janlöv, Studies on efficiency in the Swedish health care sector, Lund 2008, Licentiate thesis
• Lena Winslott Hiselius, External costs of transports imposed on neighbours and fellow road users, Lund 2005, PhD thesis.
• Alexander Dozet, On the Diffusion of Medical Technologies in Sweden, Lund 2005, Licentiate thesis (assistant supervisor:PhD Sören Höjgård)
• Catharina Hjortsberg, Health Care Utilisation in a Developinig Country - The case of Zambia, Lund 2004, PhD thesis.
• Klas Öberg, Pharmacy regulation in Sweden. A new institutional perspective, Lund 2003, PhD thesis in Economic History (Lyttkens assistant supervisor).
• Peter Martinsson, Stated Preference Methods and Empirical Analysis of Equity in Health Economics, Lund 2000, PhD thesis.
• Katarina Steen Carlsson, Equality of Access in Health Care, Lund 1999, PhD thesis.
• Lena Winslott, The External Costs of Traffic Accidents – an empirical analysis of the traffic flow, Lund 1998, Licentiate thesis.
• Paul Nystedt, The Economics of Ageing, Lund 1998, PhD thesis (assistant supervisor PhD Agneta Kruse).
• Katarina Steen , Equality of Access in Health Care, Lund 1995, Licentiate thesis.

Assignments as external evaluator

• Discussant PhD thesis, University of Southern Denmark, 2012
• Discussant PhD thesis Oslo 2012
• External evaluator for lecturer in health economics, University of Southern Denmark, 2011
• External evaluator for docent appointment in economics, Umeå University 2011
• External evaluator for 2 associate professorships in health economics, University of Southern Denmark, 2010
• Discussant of PhD thesis, University of Oslo, 2010
• Main discussant ("förste fakultetsopponent") of PhD thesis (Siri Fauli Munkerud), University of Oslo, 2009
• Evaluator of the Health Economics Research Unit, University of Southern Denmark, 2008
• Expert for evaluating research proposals, The Research Council of Norway, 2008
• Discussant at PhD half-time seminar (Kamrul Islam), Medical faculty, Lund  University, 2006
• Discussant at PhD half-time seminar (Anna Månsdotter), Umeå University, 2006
• Discussant ("fakultetsopponent") of PhD thesis (Fredric Jacobsson), Linköping University, 2005
• Expert for the appointment of a Profeessor in health economics, University of Southern Denmark, 2003
• Expert for the appointment or a Lecturer in health economics, Linköping University, 2003
• Discussant at PhD half-time seminar (Kristina Bruström), Karolinska Institutet

Selected other professional activities

• Local organiser of the 21^st European workshop on econometrics and health economics, Lund 2012
• Co-organsier of 3 international conferences on health and inequality, Darmstadt 2010-12.
• Organiser of the eleventh European Health Economics Workshop (EHEW), 2010
• External affiliate of the Health, Econometrics and Data Group, University of York, 2007-
• Member of the Standing Scientific Committee of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA), 2004-2008
• Member of the organising committee of the 6th World Congress of the International Health Economics Association, Copenhagen and Lund, 2007
• Member of the organising committees of the Nordic Health Economists Study Group Meetings, Uppsala and Copenhagen, 2005 and 2006
• Member of the advisory board of the Work Environment College at Lund University, 2004-
• Associate editor, European Economic Review, 2002-2005
• Local organiser of The Eleventh European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics, Lund, September 11-14, 2002.
• Adjunct associate, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR) and the Center for Health Policy (CHP), Stanford University, 2002-
• Member of the Global Analysis of Technological Change in Health Care (TECH) research network, Stanford University, 1998(1996)-2007
• Member of the Committee for the Application of Medical Research, The Swedish Research Council (formerly the Committee for the Evaluation of Medical Technologies, The Swedish Medical Research Council), 1994-2002
• Member of the planning board of the conference Genetic Technology and Economics, Lund, November 2000
• Chief organiser of the 21^st Nordic Health Economists’ Study Group Meeting, Lund, August 2000
• Member of the Expert Committee for Economics Analysis of Public Health interventions of the National Swedish Public Health Committee, 1997-2000
• Co-organiser of the Third European Conference on Health Economics, Stockholm, 1995

Awards

• The Myrdal-prize for best article in Ekonomisk debatt in 1991 (Lyttkens, C H & Nalin, C, "Varför är rika länder rika och fattiga länder fattiga?" [Why are rich countries rich and poor countries poor?], Ekonomisk debatt 1991:2, 108-118)
• The Skånska Brand Scholarship for insurance research in 1985 (shared with JK Dan Lindmark)