Welcome
My name
is Gylfi Magnússon.
This is my English homepage.
Íslensk heimasíða.
I am a professor at the School of Business 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 am currently the Dean of the School of Business.
I was on leave from the University from
February 1st 2009 until September 2nd 2010 while I served
in the Icelandic cabinet, first as Minister of Business Affairs and then as Minister
of Economic Affairs.
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 been the chair of Iceland's competition authority.
If you need to contact me, send me
e-mail at gylfimag@hi.is. The
regular mail address is:
Gylfi Magnússon
School of Business
University of Iceland,
Gimli
Reykjavík, ICELAND
My phone number is +354 525 4572.
Here is my
CV.
Last updated July 1st 2020