The University of Western Australia

Ms Inga Kristoffersen

Associate Lecturer
Economics

Contact details

Address

Economics
The University of Western Australia (M251)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 4677

Fax

6488 1016

Email

Inga.kristoffersen@uwa.edu.au

Qualifications

BBus MBus E.Cowan

Biography

Inga is currently lecturing in Economics at UWA Business School. She grew up in Norway and came to Australia in 1998, where she completed a Bachelor of Business (with Honours), followed by a Master of Business (Finance) at Edith Cowan University. Her honours thesis concerned the financial asset characteristics of socially responsible investment funds in Australia, and her masters thesis investigated the relationship between corporate social performance and financial performance among Australian firms. She has published papers from both theses as well as other research. She commenced her employment at UWA in January 2005.

Inga has been involved in the administration and tutoring of first-year Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, as well as higher level International Finance and Macroeconomics, and lecturing Quantitative Methods for Business Economics. She is currently the unit coordinator of Quantitative Methods for Business Economics.

Inga is currently pursuing a PhD in the area of happiness and economics.

Key research

Early interests: Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate Social and Financial Performance

Currently: Economics and Happiness

Publications

Recent Publications

Journal Article (Schol Refereed Journal)

Kristoffersen, I. (2010). The Metrics of Subjective Wellbeing: Cardinality, Neutrality and Additivity. The Economic Record. 86 (272) 98-123

Kristoffersen, I., Gerrans, P. & Clark-Murphy, M (2008). Corporate Social Performance and Financial Performance. Accounting, Accountability and Performance. 14(2) 45-88

Gerrans, P., Kristoffersen, I., & Clark-Murphy, M. (2004). The Behaviour of Socially
Responsible Investments as Financial Assets. Australian Accounting Review, 34 (3), 10-20.

Clark-Murphy, M., Kristoffersen, I., & Gerrans, P. (2002). What makes superannuation
decisions difficult? International Journal of Business Studies, 10(1), 73-94.

Languages

Norwegian

Memberships

Australian Institute for Quality of Life Studies

Previous positions

2001, Godfrey Pembroke Financial Consultants – para-planner
2001 – 2004, Edith Cowan University – casual tutor (Economics and Finance)

Teaching

ECON2272 Mathematics for Economists
ECON1111 Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics
ECON1101 Microeconomics: Prices and Markets
ECON1102 Macroeconomics: Money and Finance
ECON2234 Macroeconomcics: Policy and Applications
ECON2236 International Finance
ECON3365 Macroeconomic Theory

Research profile

Research profile and publications