Tommy Sveen
E-mail: tommy.sveen@norges-bank.no
Phone: +47 22 31 69 47
Fax: +47 22 42 40 62
Norges Bank
Bankplassen 2
P.O.Box 1179 Sentrum
0107 Oslo
Norway
Tommy Sveen is a Senior Advisor in the Monetary Policy Department and joined Norges Bank in August 2002. He obtained his PhD in economics at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 2001.
Sveen's RePEc/IDEAS entry
Research interests
Sveen's research fields are monetary economics and open economy macroeconomics. His current research focuses on (i) firm-specific capital accumulation and inflation dynamics, (ii) lumpy investment and state-contingent price-setting, (iii) and labor market frictions and inflation.
Work in progress
- "Revisiting the Importance of Non-Tradable Goods' Prices in Cyclical Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations" (with Ida W. Bache and Kjersti Næss)
- "Inflation and Labor Market Dynamics Revisited" (with Lutz Weinke)
- "State-Dependent Pricing and Lumpy Investment" (with Michael Reiter and Lutz Weinke)
Recent publications
- "Firm-Specific Capital and Welfare", (with Lutz Weinke), International Journal of Central Banking, forthcoming.
- "New Keynesian Perspectives on Labor Market Dynamics", (with Lutz Weinke), Journal of Monetary Economics 55 (2008), 921-930.
- "Lumpy Investment, Sticky Prices, and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism" (with Lutz Weinke), Journal of Monetary Economics 54S (2007), 23-36.
- "Savers, Spenders and Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy" (with Egil Matsen and Ragnar Torvik), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Topics) 7 (2007), Article 22.
- "Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities, and the Taylor Principle" (with Lutz Weinke), Journal of Economic Theory 127 (2007), 729-737.