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Address, work: Department of Economics, Lund University, Scheeelevägen 15, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden.
Address, private: Gnejsvägen 10, 310 42 Haverdal.
Telephone: +46 46 2228679 (work), +46 35 48130 (home).
Date of birth: December 3, 1942.

• B.Sc. (Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics and Theoretical Physics), University of Lund, 1966.
• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Lund, 1977.
• "Docent" in Economics, University of Lund, 1982.
• Professor of Economics, University of Lund, 1991.

• Assistant, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Lund, 1965 - 1972.
• Assistant, Lecturer, Associate Professor, Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Lund, 1971 - 1991.
• Professor of Economics, Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Lund, 1991 -

• Social fairness and fair distributions, 1975 - 1978
• Income and welfare distributions, 1979 - 1984
• Allocation and distribution without price equilibrium, 1982 - 1986
• Normative problems in Economics, 1985 - 1988
• Problems of implementation, 1989 - 1993
• Economic mechanisms, 1992 - 1997
• Post-war Business Cycles in Sweden, 1992 - 1997
• Pension systems with asymmetric information, 1995 - 2000
• Incentives, human capital and institutions, 1998 - 2002
• Efficiency and Quality in Publicly Financed Education, 1999 - 2002
• Decision mechanisms and allocations, 2001 - 2006
• Sustainable allocation rules in a strategic environment, 2006 -

• Director of the PhD program, Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Lund, 1992 - 1994
• Head of the Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Lund, 1994 - 1996
• Together with Tommy Andersson and Bo Larsson, organizer of the 24th Arne Ryde Symposium on Mechanism Design, 2008

• Expert: appointments of lectureships in economics at Gothenburg Univ., Copenhagen Univ. 1995, Luleå Univ. 1997
• Expert: appointments of professorships in economics at Stockholm Univ. 1993, Umeå Univ. 1995, Gothenburg Univ. 2000
• Expert: appointments of untenured professorship in economics at Stockholm School of Economics, 2004
• External examiner at Copenhagen Univ. 1988 -
• Referee at a large number of journals
• Member of the Programme Committee, ESEM 1991
• Member of the Programme Committee, EEA 2001
• Associate editor, Journal of Economics 1988 - 1999
• Member of the steering group of NDPE (Nordic Doctoral Programme in Economics) 1991 - 1996
• Member of The Economics Prize Committee (Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel), 1998