I am an associate
professor at the Faculty
of
Economics
and Business Administration at the University
of Iceland.
I am married to
Hrafnhildur Stefánsdóttir and we have five children,
born in 1998, 2001 and 2003 and twins in 2007.
I was an undergraduate student at the University of Iceland in 1986-90 and then got my Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1997. I have been with the University of Iceland since 1996. I was a researcher at the Institute of Economic Studies from 1996 until 1998 and an adjunct professor from 1997 until 1998, when I became an associate professor. I served as the Head of the Department of Business Administration (2000-2004) and as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (2004-2007).
I have diverse research interests and have written on migration patterns, labour economics, micro- and macroeconomics, finance and game theory. I have also written two textbooks, one on introductory economics and one on portfolio theory. I wrote my dissertation on migration in Iceland. The methodology was based on recent developments in explaining how individuals and companies make decisions that involve non-refundable investments in a changing environment.
I taught
high-school students in 1988-90, undergraduates and
master's
students at Yale in 1992-95 and have taught at the University of
Iceland
since the fall of 1996. I mainly teach micro-economics and finance.
I have done
consulting work for several companies and institutions
in Iceland, mainly on competition and antitrust matters or
finance. I have also served on the boards of several companies or
institutions and at present I am the chair of Iceland's competition authority.
Feel free to look at my Icelandic homepage if you want more information (assuming you are fluent in Icelandic (and who isn't?)).
If you need to contact me, send me e-mail at gylfimag@hi.is. The regular mail address is:
My fax number is +354 552 6806.
Here is my CV.
