Personal

Date of birth: 13.09.1979
Maritial status: married to Marit Hinnosaar (born: Rõõm)

Contact

E-mail: Toomas@Hinnosaar.net, t-hinnosaar@northwestern.edu
Homepage: http://Toomas.Hinnosaar.net/
Address: Department of Economics, Northwestern University, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA

Education

2006 – , PhD student of Economics, Northwestern University

2002 – , PhD student of Economics, University of Tartu
∙ Fall 2004 – Spring 2005, Visiting PhD student, University of Aarhus
∙ Spring 2004, Visiting PhD student, University of Helsinki (Finnish Postgraduate Program in Economics)

2001 – 2002, M.A. in Economics, University of Tartu (cum laude)
∙ Thesis: Theoretical Modelling of Software Piracy (supervisors: H. Kaldaru and A. Võrk)
∙ Thesis was awarded the Urmas Sepp prize by Bank of Estonia

1997 – 2001, B.A. in Economics, University of Tartu
∙ Majors: economic information systems and economic theory

1994 – 1997, Nõo Science School
∙ Participated actively in national and international olympiads in mathematics, physics and informatics, took part in the preparation groups for international olympiads in these subjects
∙ Graduated mathematics and informatics program in Tartu University’s Science School

Conference Proceedings

”Competition and collusion in software market in the presence of piracy” in conference ”Competition, Law and Economics”, Tartu, Estonia, 5th – 7th of August, 2004.

”Taxation of Recording Hardware and Blank Recording Media as a Method of Intellectual Property Protection” in conference ”Tax Policy in EU Candidate Countries On the Eve of Enlargement”, Riga, Latvia, 12th – 14th September 2003.

”Salvestusseadmete ja tühjade salvestuseks mõeldud vahendite maksustamine intellektuaalse omandi kaitse vahendina” (Taxation of Recording Hardware and Blank Recording Media as a Method of Intellectual Property Protection) - in Proceedings of the 11th Conference on the Estonian Economic Policy on the Way Towards European Union, Tartu-Värska, Estonia, June 26–28, 2003, pp. 513–521.

”Intellektuaalse omandi kaitse tarkvaratööstuses” (Intellectual Property Protection in Software Industry) - in Proceedings of the 10th Conference on The Effect of European Union Expansion on Estonian Economic Policy, Tartu-Värska, Estonia, June 27–29, 2002, pp 497—504.

Other Publications

”Software Piracy and Social Welfare”, Kroon & Economy, No 3, 2003, Bank of Estonia.

”Nobeli majanduspreemia läks mänguteooria uurijatele” (Nobel Prize in Economics went to Game Theorists), Eesti Päevaleht, Ärileht, October 19, 2005.

Acted as referee

11th Conference on The Effect of European Union Expansion on Estonian Economic Policy, Tartu - Värska, Estonia, June 27–29, 2003.
13th Scientific Conference on Economic Policy, Tartu - Värska, Estonia, 30.06-02.07, 2005.

Teaching

”Advanced Macroeconomics” (M.A., Ph.D.), spring 2006
”Advanced Microeconomics” (M.A., Ph.D.), fall 2002, fall 2003, fall 2005 – spring 2006
”Preparation course: mathematical methods in economics” (M.A., Ph.D.), summer 2005
”Specialized course in economic theory” (M.A.), fall 2002, fall 2003
”International finance” (M.A.), teaching associate, fall 2003
”Introduction to economics” (B.A.), teaching associate, fall 2002, fall 2003, fall 2005
”Public finance” (M.A.), teaching associate, spring 2003
”Principles of Mathematical Economics” (B.A.), teaching associate, spring 2003
”Economics of information goods” (B.A., M.A.), fall 2002
”System analysis and design” (B.A.), teaching associate, fall 2001

Work experience

Sept 2005 – June 2006, Contractual lecturing in University of Tartu
Febr 2003 – Aug 2004, University of Tartu, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Institute of Economics, Research Fellow
Sept 2001 – Dec 2003, Contractual lecturing in University of Tartu and EuroFaculty
May 2000 – Aug 2001, MicroLink Systems, programmer

Awards

∙ Award by Bank of Estonia in memoriam of Urmas Sepp (for M.A. thesis), 2003
∙ 1st place in Estonian National Olympiad in Mathematics, 1996, 1997
∙ 1st place in Estonian National Olympiad in Physics, 1997
∙ Several awards from less important national-level Olympiads in Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, 1995–1997
∙ Participated in International Mathematics Olympiads: IMO’1996 in India, IMO’1997 in Argentina, and Baltic Way’1995 in Sweden, Baltic Way’1996 in Finland. Also participated in International Physics Olympiad: IPhO’1997 in Canada.

Grants and Fellowships

Sept. 2006 – Feb. 2007 Kristjan Jaak Foundation Fellowship
Spring 2006 Eduard and Eero Raig Fellowship, Tartu University Foundation
Febr. 2005 – June. 2005 Kristjan Jaak Foundation Fellowship
July. 2004 – Dec. 2004 EuroFaculty Fellowship
Jan. 2004 – May. 2004 CIMO Baltia 75 Fellowship
Aug. 2003 – Dec. 2003 FIDe Team Fellow Grant
Aug. 2002 – Dec. 2002 FIDe Team Fellow Grant
Feb. 2002 – June 2002 EuroFaculty Fellowship program
Sept. 2001 – Dec. 2001 EuroFaculty Fellowship program

Professional Societies

Estonian Economics Society (founder member)

Additional activities

∙ In Fall 2005, Spring 2006, organizer of Research Seminars in the Institute of Economics, University of Tartu.
∙ Editor of Online English-Estonian-English Dictionary of Economics.
∙ One of the founders of the charity and social responsibility homepage www.toeta.ee.
∙ Member of the Estonian national mathematics olympiads organizing committee, 1997 – 2001.