Director

E-mail: farooq.akram@norges-bank.no

Phone: +47 22 31 66 92
Fax: +47 22 42 40 62
Norges Bank
Bankplassen 2
P.O.Box 1179 Sentrum
0107 Oslo
Norway

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Research interests
Farooq Akram is the Director of Research Department - Financial Stability. Akram received his PhD in economics from the University of Oslo in 2001. His primary research interests are in the areas of financial stability, monetary policy, exchange rate economics and applied econometrics. Akram's  entry

Selected publications

•     "What horizon for targeting inflation?", Empirical Economics, forthcoming.

 "Commodity prices, interest rates and the dollar". Energy Economics, 2009, vol. 31, pp. 838-851.  

 "Model selection for monetary policy analysis--How important is empirical validity?", with Ragnar Nymoen. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, vol. 1, pp. 35-68.

  "Does the law of one price hold in international financial markets? Evidence from tick data", with Dagfinn Rime and Lucio Sarno. Journal of Banking and Finance, 2009, vol. 33, pp. 1741-1754. VOX-entry

  "Arbitrage in the Foreign Exchange Market: Turning on the Microscope", with Dagfinn Rime and Lucio Sarno. Journal of International Economics, 2008, vol. 76, pp. 237-253.  VOX-entry

 "Flexible inflation targeting and financial stability: Is it enough to stabilise inflation and output?", with Ø. Eitrheim. Journal of Banking and Finance, 2008, vol. 32, pp. 1242-1254.

 "Pursing financial stability under an inflation-targeting regime" with G. Bårdsen and K.G. Lindquist. Annals of Finance, 2007, vol. 3, pp. 131-153. 

  "Monetary policy and asset prices: To respond or not?" with Gunnar Bårdsen and Øyvind Eitrheim. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2006, vol 11, pp. 279-292. 

  "PPP in the medium run: The case of Norway". Journal of Macroeconomics, 2006, vol. 28 (4), pp. 700-719.

 "En effisient handlingsregel for bruk av petroleumsinntekter". Norsk Økonomisk Tidsskrift, 119, 2, 2004, pp. 91-504.

  "Oil prices and exchange rates: Norwegian Evidence". Econometrics Journal, 2004, vol. 7, pp. 476-504.