Øyvind Eitrheim

Øyvind Eitrheim

E-mail: oyvind.eitrheim@norges-bank.no

Phone: +47 22 31 61 61
Fax: +47 22 31 60 21
Norges Bank
Bankplassen 2
P.O.Box 1179 Sentrum
0107 Oslo
Norway

Research interests

Øyvind Eitrheim is a Director at Norges Bank Monetary Policy

Eitrheim has been with Norges Bank since January 1984. He has his PhD in Economics from the University of Oslo in 1996. Eitrheim was Director of the research department 2001-2009 and is now organizing Norges Bank's bicentenary project 1816-2016 and international conferences. His research interests lie in the fields of time series econometrics and macroeconometric modelling. His current research focuses on (i) robust monetary policy, (ii) forecasting under model and data uncertainty, (iii) monetary history, and (iv) potential conflicts between price stability and financial stability.

Work in progress

  • "Robust satisficing monetary policy under parameter uncertainty" (with Yakov Ben-Haim and Farooq Akram)                                                                                                                                                             

  • "Forecasting under data and model uncertainty" (with Farooq Akram and Ragnar Nymoen).

  • ”Core inflation, model averaging and structural instabilities”, (with Francesco Ravazzolo and Shaun Vahey).


Recent publications

  • "Inflation targeting twenty years on: Past lessons and future prospects" (co-edited with D. Cobham, S. Gerlach and J. F. Qvigstad), forthcoming September 2010, Cambridge University Press, based on work presented at the conference Inflation targeting twenty years on, jointly organized by Norges Bank and the Institute of Monetary and Financial Stability, Goethe University, Frankfurt, held in Norges Bank, Oslo, 11-12 June 2009.

  • “Bank regulation and bank crisis. The main developments in the Norwegian regulatory system before, during, and after the banking crisis of 1988-92” (co-authored with Sigbjørn A. Berg), Banca d’Italia series Workshops and Conferences 2009-1, Financial market regulation in the wake of the financial crises: The historical experience (pp 169-184), edited by Alfredo Gigliobianco and Gianni Toniolo

  • “Flexible inflation targeting and financial stability: Is it enough to stabilize inflation and output?” (co-authored with Q. Farooq Akram), Journal of Banking and Finance, 32, 2008, pp. 1242-1254..

  • “Historical Monetary Statistics for Norway – Part II”, (co-edited with Jan T. Klovland and Jan F. Qvigstad), Norges Bank Occasional Papers No. 38, 2007.

  • "Monetary policy and asset prices: To respond or not?". (co-authored with Akram, Q. Farooq and Gunnar Bårdsen), International Journal of Finance and Economics, 11, July, 2006, pp. 279-292.

  • "Non-linear dynamics in output, real exchange rates and real money balances: Norway, 1830-2003". (co-authored with Q. Farooq Akram and Lucio Sarno), Ch. 13 in Nonlinear Time Series Analysis of Business Cycles (Costas Milas, Philip Rothman and Dick van Dijk, eds.), in Elsevier's Contributions to Economic Analysis series, 2006.      

  • "House prices in Norway 1819-1989". (co-authored with Solveig K. Erlandsen), Scandinavian Economic History Review 53(3), 2005, pp. 7-33.

  • "Tilbakeblikk på norsk pengehistorie. Konferanse 7. juni 2005 på Bogstad gård". (co-edited with Jan F. Qvigstad). Oslo 2005, Norges Bank Occasional Paper No. 37, 2005 .

  • "Real-time data for Norway: Challenges for monetary policy". (co-authored with Tom Bernhardsen, Anne Sofie Jore and Øistein Røisland), in North American Journal of Economics and Finance 16 (2005) 333-349 .

  • The Econometrics of Macroeconomic Modelling, (co-authored with Gunnar Bårdsen, Eilev S. Jansen and Ragnar Nymoen), Advanced texts in Econometrics, Oxford University Press, 2005).

  • "Historical Monetary Statistics for Norway 1819-2003" (co-edited with Jan T. Klovland and Jan. F. Qvigstad), Occasional Paper No. 35, Norges Bank, 2004.

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