Tore Ellingsen, born 1962, is a Norwegian

Norway

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 economist

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 active in Sweden

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Ellingsen graduated as siviløkonom

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from Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen

Bergen

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 in 1985, and received a Ph.D.

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 from London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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 in 1991. Since 1991 he is active at the Stockholm School of Economics

Stockholm School of Economics

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, from 1996 as docent

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 (associate professor) and from 2000 as professor

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 of economics

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Ellingsen was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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 in 2004. Since 2007 he is a member of the Prize Committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, where he was an adjunct member 2005-2007.

External links

• Tore Ellingsen's web page at the Stockholm School of Economics