Johannes A. Skjeltorp
Researcher
E-mail: johannes-a.skjeltorp@norges-bank.no
Phone: +47 22 31 67 40
Fax: +47 22 42 40 62
Norges Bank
Bankplassen 2
P.O.Box 1179 Sentrum
0107 Oslo
Norway
Johannes Skjeltorp is an advisor in the research department of Norges Bank. Skjeltorp obtained his PhD at the Norwegian School of Management (BI) in 2004. He has been with the research department since March 1998.
Research interests
Skjeltorp's main research interests is in asset management, asset pricing and the market microstructure of equity markets. His current research focuses on liquidity risk and asset pricing. More specifically he uses equity market microstructure data to obtain liquidity measures for use in asset pricing applications. In addition, he has several ongoing projects on the relationship between company specific order-flow, liquidity and the speed of price discovery. Skjeltorp also have an ongoing project studying the aggregate equity orderflow and it's relation to macro fundamentals and asset prices aswell as the relation between market liquidity and the business cycle.

Working in progress
Articles in Refereed (International) Journals
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"Order Book Characteristics and the Volume-Volatility relation: Empirical evidence from a Limit Order Market" (with Randi Næs), Journal of Financial Markets, issue 9 (2006), p. 408 - 432.
Published version (259 kB) [abstract]
NB Working Paper 2003/9 (617 kB), Slides (207 kB)
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"Equity trading by institutional investors: Evidence on order submission strategies" (with Randi Næs), Journal of Banking and Finance, vol.27, issue 7 (2003), p.1779 - 1817.
Published version (585 kB) [abstract]
NB Working Paper 2002/12 (433 kB), Slides (326 kB)
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"On- or off-market trading? Evidence on Competition, Liquidity and Execution Costs" (with Randi Næs), Canadian Investment Review, Fall 2003, p.47-51.
Canadian Investment Review (188 kB) [abstract]
- "Scaling in the Norwegian Stock Market" Physica A, issue 283, (2000), p.486-528.
Published version (886 kB) [abstract]
Articles in Refereed (Norwegian) Journals
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"Hvilke faktorer driver kursutviklingen på Oslo Børs?", (627 kB) (with Randi Næs and Bernt-Arne Ødegaard), Norsk Økonomisk Tidskrift, vol 122, no 2, pages 36-81, (2008). Also available as NB Working Paper 8/2007
English version: "What factors affect the Oslo Stock Exchange", (877 kB), NB Working Paper 2009/24
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"Industrisammensetningen av Oslo Børs", (309 kB), Published in Praktisk Økonomi og Finans (PØF) 2009
Other writings
- "The information content of market liquidity: An empirical analysis of liquidity at the Oslo Stock Exchange?" (730 kB), NB Working Paper 2009/26
- "Liquidity at the Oslo Stock Exchange", (504 kB), NB Working Paper 9/2008.
- "Is the market microstructure of stock markets important?", (238 kB), Norges Bank Economic Bulletin 3/2006.
- "Aksjemarkedets mikrostruktur - betyr det noe?" (501 kB), Penger og Kreditt 2/2006.
- "Tilbakekjøp i Norge. Annonseringseffekten, langsiktig avkastning og tilbakekjøpsaktivitet" (83 kB), Praktisk Økonomi og Finans 1/2005
- PhD Dissertation: "Trading in Equity Markets A study of Individual, Institutional and Corporate Trading Decisions" (1 Mb), Series of Dissertations 8/2004, Norwegian School of Management, Department of Financial Economics
Supervisor: Bernt Arne Ødegaard (BI)
Committee: Thierry Foucault (HEC Paris),
Tommy Stamland (NHH),
Ilan Cooper (BI)
- "Nye Metoder Innen Risikoanalyse og Kontroll: Skalering i Finansielle Data" (177 kB), Penger og Kreditt, 4/1998