nwnacc

Department of Accounting

  • Center for Corporate Governance
  • Center for Ejerledede Virksomheder
Niels
°Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô
Professor


Room: SOL/C5.05
Tel:
+4538152378
E-mail: nwn.ccg@cbs.dk
Presentation

Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô, MSc (Econ), Aarhus University, 1975, PhD (lic.polit), University of Copenhagen, 1982. Employed as associate professor at Aarhus School of Business Jan 1984,Ìý Professor Sept. 1989 - May 2013. Visiting scholar at University of Wisconsin 1979-80, University of Chicago, 1983, NBER, Harvard University, 1997, Curtrin University, Perth, 1998, RSF-scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2007-2008. Director of Center for Labour and Social Studies (Grundforskningscenter), Aarhus University, 1992-2000, Director Center for Corporate Performance, Aarhus School ofÌý Business, 2001-2013. Consulting for the OECD, 1986, 1993-97 and for the World Bank 1994-97 (Zambia) and 2003 (Namibia).

Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô has been member of several Danish Government Commissions on the labour Market and on Greenland, Chaired the Commission on Apprentices, 1993. The most recent commission was the wage commission. He has authored various textbooks on the Danish Labour Market, authored scientific books and articles in leading journals on issues on skills and education, wages, health factors, HR, satisfaction, data issues and productivity. Has served as chairman of several research and evaluation committees: (evaluation of Uppsala University, Norwegian Research Council, EU-projects) and taken part in several large international research projects.

The research started in labour market studies using register data (and was among the first doing that). This led to cooperation with psychiatrists and publications in the medical literature. Niels then turned register research into research on what happens inside firms concerning personnel and firm performance. Keywords in this research: job turnover, job satisfaction, wage policies of firms, firm specific human capital, costs of job turnover, intergenerational mobility.

Primary research areas
  • Job creation and destruction
  • Personnel Economics
  • Corporate Governance, board composition
  • Creation of new firms
  • The financial system and firms, access to credit
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Curriculum Vitae
Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/nwnacc
Courses
  • Labor Economics (Graduate Course)
  • Personnel Economics (graduate/executive)
  • Corporate Governanve (undergraduate/executive)
  • Macro 101 (undergraduate)
  • Micro 101 (undergraduate)
Selected publications
Publications List
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2022
Thomas Poulsen; Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô / : Overdragelse til medarbejdereje.
In: Barrierer for demokratiske virksomhederFrederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, casino 168 2022, p. 177-202
Report chapter
Thomas Poulsen; Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô /
In: Pengeinstitutfinansiering til og fra demokratiske virksomheder. ed. /Thomas Poulsen. Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, casino 168 2022, p. 152-175
Report chapter
2021
Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô /
In: Erhvervsjuridisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 29, No. 4, 11.2021, p. 226-231
Journal article > peer review
Torben M. Andersen; Jan Bentzen; Svend E. Hougaard Jensen; Valdemar Smith; Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô /
2.ed.København : Djøf Forlag 2021, 275 p.
Book
2020
Aleksandra Gregoric; Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô / : Empirisk evidens om danske bestyrelser.
In: Danske bestyrelser og deres medlemmer: Hvem bestemmer i de danske selskaber?. . ed. /Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô. Frederiksberg : Center for Corporate Governance. Copenhagen Business School 2020, p. 89-105
Book chapter
Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô (Editor) / : Hvem bestemmer i de danske selskaber?.
Frederiksberg : Center for Corporate Governance. Copenhagen Business School 2020, 134 p.
Anthology
Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô /
In: Danske bestyrelser og deres medlemmer: Hvem bestemmer i de danske selskaber?. . ed. /Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô. Frederiksberg : Center for Corporate Governance. Copenhagen Business School 2020, p. 9-26
Book chapter
Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô /
Frederiksberg : Center for Ejerledede Virksomheder. Copenhagen Business School 2020, 12 p.
Report
Steen Thomsen; Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô /
In: Danske bestyrelser og deres medlemmer: Hvem bestemmer i de danske selskaber?. . ed. /Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô. Frederiksberg : Center for Corporate Governance. Copenhagen Business School 2020, p. 106-119
Book chapter
Therese Strand; Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô /
In: Danske bestyrelser og deres medlemmer: Hvem bestemmer i de danske selskaber?. . ed. /Niels °Â±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ù²µÃ¥°ù»å-±·¾±±ð±ô²õ±ð²Ô. Frederiksberg : Center for Corporate Governance. Copenhagen Business School 2020, p. 27-38
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Research Projects
Outside activities

Nordic Rebalance A/S; Member of executive board; 2010 - ongoing
Nordic Rebalance AB; Member of executive board; 2018 – ongoing
University of Zürich; Teaching doctoral courses; 2020
Jyske Bank; Teaching;Ìý2018 - 2019