Arne Risa Hole
Lecturer in Economics
Room 413
Tel +44 (0)114 22 23411
Fax +44 (0)114 22 23458
email : a.r.hole@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
Arne graduated from the University of Bergen in 2000 and gained his MSc from the University of Edinburgh in 2001. After completing his PhD at the University of St Andrews he was appointed to a research fellowship at the University of York´s Centre for Health Economics. He joined the department in January 2009 as a Lecturer in Economics.
Arne is an external affiliate with the Health, Econometrics and Data Group at the University of York and the Uni Rokkan Centre at the University of Bergen.
He has been involved in advisory reports for the NHS Employers and the Department of Health.
Teaching
"I currently teach Applied Microeconomics to 2nd year undergraduate students and Applied Microeconometrics to masters students. I am also involved in running the undergraduate dissertation module for third year students.
Applied Microeconomics covers a number of subjects such as transport, the environment and health care. In each of these areas economic analysis plays a useful role in informing real-world decision making. The aim of the module is to use the theoretical concepts that students learn in their first year as a tool to study real-world decisions such as whether to introduce a new high speed rail service or to make a new drug available on the NHS. Since many of these issues are complex, assumptions often have to be made to simplify the analysis. Being aware of such assumptions and discussing them critically in tutorials and workshops is an important part of the module.
My approach to teaching is to introduce students to various methods for conducting economic analysis and, importantly, to encourage them to think critically about the use of these methods. I also try to make use of current research in my teaching."
- ECN217 Applied Microeconomics
- ECN330 Economics Undergraduate Dissertation
- ECN601 Applied Microeconometrics
Research Summary and PhD Student Supervision
Arne´s research interests lie in the area of applied microeconometrics, focusing on health and labour economics. Since his PhD he has had a particular interest in stated preference methods and the econometric analysis of discrete choice data. He also has an interest in statistical programming and has written several modules for the statistical software package Stata. He is currently involved in research projects funded by the Medical Research Council and the Norwegian Research Council. Arne is interested in supervising PhD students in applied microeconometrics.