Senior economist
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Phone: +47 22 31 61 21
Norges Bank
Bankplassen 2
P.O.Box 1179 Sentrum
0107 Oslo
Norway
Knut Are Aastveit is a Senior Economis in the Economics Department. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Univeristy of Oslo in 2010.
Research interests
Applied macroeconomics, forecasting, factor models, model averaging.
Publications
- Nowcasting Norwegian GDP: The Role of Asset Prices in a Small Open Economy (joint with Tørres G. Trovik), Empirical Economics, accepted for publication. Working paper version
Research papers
- Estimating the Output Gap in Real Time: A Factor Model Approach (joint with Tørres G. Trovik). Working paper version
- Oil Price Shocks an Monetary Policy in a Data-Rich Environment. Latest version
- Nowcasting GDP in Real-Time: A Density Combination Approach (joint with Karsten R. Gerdrup and Anne Sofie Jore).
- Regional and world factors in monetary policy (joint with Hilde C. Bjørnland and Leif Anders Thorsrud).
Books
- Empirical Studies of Business Cycles and Monetary Policy in Real Time: The Importance of Analzying Large Data Sets, Series of dissertations submitted to the Faculty of Social Science, University of Oslo, no 212.