Faculty of Business Administration

Helga Kristjánsdóttir

Professor
+35 4 460 8626 Website

Location

  • Utan skólans / Off Campus

Office hours

Meeting hours by appointment. Please email me at: helga@unak.is

Specialisation

Economics Foreign Direct Investment International Business Tourism
Research portal - Helga Kristjánsdóttir 

General information

Courses

AFV3106220
International Finance and Trading Organizations
AVN3106220
International Business, Natural Resources, and Arctic Circle
AFV3106220
International Finance and Trading Organizations
AVN3106220
International Business, Natural Resources, and Arctic Circle

Education

2004
University of Iceland, PhD Economics
2003
University of Copenhagen, Ph.D. courses Economics
2000
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, MS Economics
1995
Boston College, MBA Master of Business Administration
1992
University of Iceland, BS Economics
1989
Akureyri Junior College, Schola Akureyrensis, University Entrance Exam

Career

2020
University of Akureyri, Professor
2018 - 2020
University of Akureyri, Associate Professor
2018 - 2018
University of Akureyri, Assistant Professor
2004 - 2017
University of Iceland, Researcher and part-time lecturer
2002 - 2003
Copenhagen University. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics, Visiting Scholar
2001 - 2002
Copenhagen University. Economic Policy Research Unit, Visiting Scholar
1992 - 1993
University of Iceland. Institute of Economic Studies, Researcher

Research

2024
Online Business Academia in the Digital Economy
2023
EXPORT SAGA AT THE SEA
2023
Assessing fisheries subsidies
2023
DIGITAL CURRENCIES, SWOT ANALYSIS
2023
Production, storage, and usage of green hydrogen as an opportunity for the development of smart cities
2022
International trade between the EFTA trade bloc and China
2022
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (FTA) WITH CHINA AND INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
2021
The Global Financial Crisis and Foreign Direct Investment in Europe
2021
Tax on tourism in Europe: Does higher value-added tax (VAT) impact tourism demand in Europe?
2021
EU Country and EFTA Country Export Differences
2021
CARBFIX AND SULFIX IN GEOTHERMAL PRODUCTION, AND THE BLUE LAGOON IN ICELAND: GRINDAVÍK URBAN SETTLEMENT, AND VOLCANIC ACTIVITY
2021
European FDI in Ireland and Iceland: Before and after the Financial Crisis
2021
Financial Aspects of Geothermal Development and Utilization
2020
UK FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN THE OECD, CULTURE AND GEOGRAPHY
2020
Cultural and geographical distance: effects on UK exports
2020
EU-COUNTRY AND NON-EU-COUNTRY AT THE TIME OF CRISIS: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
2019
DOES INVESTMENT REPLACE AID AS COUNTRIES BECOME MORE DEVELOPED?
2019
Tourism in a Remote Nordic Region: Vat, Internet, Oil, English, Distance, Hofstede, and Christianity
2019
Geothermal Cost and Investment Factors
2017
Hofstede national culture and international trade
2017
Virkjun jarðvarma
2017
Grænland og sæstrengur
2017
Virkjun vatnsafls
2017
COUNTRY COMPETITIVENESS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
2017
The Longitude and Latitude of Trading in Tourists
2017
Эмпирическое исследование национальной конкурентоспособности
2016
Útflutningur og auðlindir
2016
Bein erlend fjárfesting og afnám hafta
2016
Hvað er bein erlend fjárfesting?
2016
Gildi milliríkjaviðskipta fyrir Ísland
2016
Can the Butler’s Tourist Area Cycle of Evolution Be Applied to Find the Maximum Tourism Level? A Comparison of Norway and Iceland to Other OECD Countries
2016
Foreign direct investment in the hospitality industry in Iceland and Norway, in comparison to the Nordics and a range of other OECD countries
2015
Sustainable Energy Resources and Economics in Iceland and Greenland
2014
Economics and power-intensive industries
2014
Microeconomic and macroeconomic issues in the power intensive industry
2014
The CarbFix procedure
2014
The SulFix procedure
2014
The geothermal application
2014
The hydropower application
2014
The importance of renewable energy for the power intensive industry, from an economic perspective
2014
The power intensive industry, from the international economic perspective
2013
Foreign direct investment in a small open economy
2012
Substitution between inward and outward foreign direct investment
2012
What determines the inflow of foreign direct investment?
2012
Exports From a Remote Developed Region: Analysed by an Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Transformation of the Gravity Model
2012
Geothermal Cost and Investment Factors
2012
Knowledge is power: Knowledge-capital model in the management of power intensive industries
2011
Opportunities and challenges for CarbFix: An evaluation of capacities and costs for the pilot scale mineralization sequestration project at Hellisheidi, Iceland and beyond
2010
Icelandic Development Assistance: A Comparative Assessment
2010
Government Transfers to Families with Children
2010
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: THE KNOWLEDGE-CAPITAL MODEL AND A SMALL COUNTRY CASE
2010
Fixed Costs, Foreign Direct Investment, and Gravity with Zeros
2008
Alllocation of Public and Private Goods within the Household
2008
Exports Under the Flicker of the Northern Lights
2008
Why are the Northern Lights so Bright? What makes the Nordics so Competitive?
2008
Estimating the impact of time-invariant variables on FDI with fixed effects
2007
Geysir Víking Land: Saga
2006
Evaluation of Icelandic trade flows, the gravity model approach
2006
Substitution between Inward and Outward Foreign Direct Investment
2006
Talking Trade or Talking Aid? Does Investment Substitute for Aid in the Developing Countries?
2005
Gravity Model for Exports from Iceland
2005
Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Iceland
2005
The Knowledge-Capital Model and Small Countries.
2005
What Drives Sector Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment in Iceland?
2004
Determinants of Exports and Foreign Direct Investment in a Small Open Economy
2000
Evaluation of Icelandic Trade Flows, the Gravity Model Approach
1992
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