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I am Associate Professor at
the University of Southern Denmark,
Campus Odense, Department of Business & Economics.
My e-mail address
is, mos@sam.sdu.dk,
- and phone: +45 6550 2116
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Morten Skak
Associate professor
Department of Business and Economics
Campusvej 55, DK-5230
Phone +45 6550 2116 (secretary: +45 6550 2111)
Fax +45 6650 3237
I live in the lovely city of Svendborg at the southern cost of the island
Fyn: If you have time, click here for a bird’s eye view from
one of the church towers; and here for a view from our garden
Otte Ruds Vej 12,
DK 5700
Svendborg
Phone: + 45
62 21 73 01
E-mail: morten@skak.com
My birth date is
I graduated from the high school Svendborg Statsgymnasium in 1967 and
became M. Sc. in Economics from
Since then I have worked at various places:
1973 - 1974: Secretary, Ministry of Environment
1974 - 1978: Head of Section, Ministry of Economics.
1978 - 1981: Financial and Economic Attaché, the Danish Delegation to the OECD.
1981 - 1998: Assistant and Associate Professor at Department of Economics,
Odense University, later University of Southern Denmark, Odense
1998 - 2000: I worked as director, A/S Valdemar Skak (a research and
development company)
2000 - : Back as Associate Professor at Department of Business & Economics,
University of Southern Denmark.
My teaching responsibilities:
Under the
Oecon Study Programmes I teach Velfærdsøkonomi
og skattepolitik, Housing
and Urban Economics and Labour Market Economics.
Besides this I supervise
students’ bach, master and PhD thesis.
Research interests
Everything that moves in an economic way may catch my
interest, but in 2005 I was appointed project leader under the Danish Center
for Bolig og Velfærd (Housing and Welfare), funded by Realdania and since then my
research area has been housing economics.
Some writings in English:
Small-Area Variation in Homeownership. With Jørgen
Lauridsen and Niels Nannerup. Housing Studies,
24 (6), pp. 793-808, November 2009.
Geographic and Dynamic Heterogeneity of Home
Ownership. With Jørgen
Lauridsen and Niels Nannerup. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 24: pp. 1-17, 2009.
Projecting Demand for Rental Homes in Denmark. European
Journal of Housing Policy, Vol. 8, Issue 3, 2008 pp. 235-262.
Adaptation investments and
homeownership. With Jørgen Drud Hansen. Journal of Housing Economics,
vol. 17, no. 1, March 2008, pp. 102-115.
Determinants of Homeownership in
Denmark. With Jørgen Lauridsen. Discussion
Papers on Business and Economics No.
2/2007. Department of Business
& Economics. SDU.
Explaining home ownership rates
in Danish municipalities. With Jørgen Lauridsen and Niels Nannerup. In
John Doling and Marja Elsinga (eds.): Home
ownership. Getting in, getting from, getting out, Part II.
Restricting ownership of vacation homes. Tourism
Economics , vol. 10, no. 4, December 2004, pp. 435-47.
Some writings in Danish:
Hvad
bestemmer ejerboligandelen i danske kommuner? Med Jørgen T. Lauridsen, Niels Nannerup. Nationaløkonomisk
Tidsskrift. 2008;
vol. 146, s. 1-21
Privat boligudlejning: Motiver, strategi og økonomi. Med Hans Skifter
Andersen. Statens Byggeforskningsinstitut, Hørsholm 2008.
Kan
man filtrere ejerboligmarkedet for spatielle påvirkningseffekter? Med Jørgen
Lauridsen, Niels Nannerup In Peter Linde (red.): Symposium i Anvendt Statistik, 2008. Danmarks Statistik, København
2008.
Kriminalitet
og andelen af boligejere i lokalområdet – er der en sammenhæng? Med Jørgen
Lauridsen, Niels Nannerup Samfundsøkonomen
nr. 5, 2007.
En
økonometrisk model af danske kommunale boligejerrater. Med Jørgen Lauridsen, Niels
Nannerup In Peter Linde og Mogens Dilling Hansen (red.): Symposium i Anvendt Statistik, 2007. Danmarks Statistik, København
2007.
Skal
boligmarkedet liberaliseres? Samfundsøkonomen nr. 4, 2006.