Education and degrees

PhD in Economics, University of Oslo, January 2007

• Thesis: “Econometrics of Exchange Rate Pass-Through” (2.13 MB)
• Advisor: Professor Ragnar Nymoen, University of Oslo
• Adjudication committee: Jesper Lindé (Sveriges Riksbank), Luca Sala (IGIER, Bocconi University), Steinar Holden (University of Oslo)
• Trial lecture: "On the robustness of commonly employed methods in estimating the exchange rate pass-through"Presentation slides

Cand.oecon (MPhil in Economics), University of Oslo, March 2000

MSc Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, July 1999

Employment

• Senior advisor, Research Department, Norges Bank (2006-present)
• Advisor, Research Department, Norges Bank (2004-2006)
• Economist, Research Department, Norges Bank (2000-2004)
• Research assistant (part-time), Research Department, Norges Bank (1998-2000)
• Research assistant (part-time), Department of Economics, University of Oslo (1996-1998)
  
  
  

Fields of Specialization

• Primary: Applied macroeconometrics, open economy macroeconomics
• Secondary: Monetary policy
  
  
  Working papers/work in progress  
• "Combining DSGE models and VARs in a small open economy" (with Leif Brubakk and Junior Maih), unpublished mimeo
• "Assessing the structural VAR approach to exchange rate pass-through"
  PhD-thesis chapter 5 Presentation EEA Budapest 2007
• "Estimating New Keynesian import price models" (with Bjørn E. Naug) 
   PhD-thesis chapter 2
• "Assessing GMM and ML estimates of New Keynesian import price equations" 
  PhD-thesis chapter 3
• "Critical realism and econometrics"
  Norges Bank Working Paper 2003/04
• "Empirical modelling of Norwegian import prices"
  Norges Bank Working Paper 2002/01

 

Presentations 

Conferences and workshops

• Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM) (Stockholm, 2003)
• NHH-UiO Macroeconomics workshop (Oslo, 2005)
• Spring Meeting of Young Economists (Sevilla, 2006)
• Computational Economics and Finance (Cyprus, 2006)
• Central Bank Workshop on Macroeconomic Modelling (Santiago de Chile, 2006)
• Annual meeting of Norwegian research economists (2003, 2005, 2006)
• Annual congress of the European Economic Association (Budapest, 2007)

Seminars

University of Oxford (2004), Bank of England (2004), University of Oslo (2006), Sveriges Riksbank (2006), Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (2006), Norges Bank (2006), Statistics Norway (2006), European Central Bank (Joint Lunchtime Seminar, 2007), Bank of Israel (2007)

Teaching and Evaluation 

• Lecturer, open economy macroeconomics (graduate level), University of Oslo (2000, 2001, 2003, 2006)
• Referee for Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Applied Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, International Economics and Economic Policy, European Economic Review
• Referee for Spring Meeting of Young Economists 2007 

Visits

• Visiting scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (October 2006)
• Secondee, Structural Economic Analysis Division, Bank of England (July-September 2004)
• Academic visitor, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, UK (October 2003-July 2004)