Curriculum Vitae

Education | Employment | Fields of interest | Publications | Working papers | Presentations | Teaching and evaluation | Visits | Personal

Education and Degrees

1997-2001	Dr. Oecon, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) Advisor: Prof. Erling Steigum Jr., Norwegian School of Management (BI)
1996-1997	Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research, Kiel Institute of World Economics, Germany
1993-1995	Cand.Oecon (Higher degree in economics), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
1989-1993	Master of Business and Economics, Norwegian School of Management (BI)

Employment

2009->	Senior Advisor, Research Department, Norges Bank
2008-2009	Senior Advisor, Monetary Policy Department, Norges Bank
2007-2008	Assistant Director, Economics Department, Norges Bank
2005-2007	Advisor, Research Department, Norges Bank
2002-2005	Researcher, Research Department, Norges Bank
2001-2002	Post-doctoral Scholar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain

Fields of Specialization

• Monetary Economics
• Open Economy Macroeconomics

Publications

Research Articles

1. "Inflation and Labor Market Dynamics Revisited", (with Lutz Weinke), Journal of Monetary Economics  56(8)(2009), 1096-1100.
2. "Firm-Specific Capital and Welfare", (with Lutz Weinke), International Journal of Central Banking 5(2)(2009), 147-179.
3. "New Keynesian Perspectives on Labor Market Dynamics", (with Lutz Weinke), Journal of Monetary Economics 55 (2008), 921-930.
4. "Lumpy Investment, Sticky Prices, and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism" (with Lutz Weinke), Journal of Monetary Economics 54S (2007), 23-36.
5. "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.
6. "Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities, and the Taylor Principle" (with Lutz Weinke), Journal of Economic Theory 127 (2007), 729-737.
7. "New Perspectives on Capital, Sticky Prices, and the Taylor Principle" (with Lutz Weinke), Journal of Economic Theory 123 (2005), 21-39.

Other Publications

1. "Pengepolitikk under et inflasjonsmål: en dynamisk analyse" (with Øistein Røisland), Norsk Økonomisk Tidsskrift 120 (2006), 90-103.
2. "Pengepolitikk under et inflasjonsmål" (with Øistein Røisland), Norsk Økonomisk Tidsskrift 119 (2005), 16-38.
3. "How does the exchange rate react to a cost-push shock?" (with Øistein Røisland). In: Explaining movements in the Norwegian exchange rate (Ø. Eitrheim and K. Gulbrandsen, Eds.), Occasional Papers No. 32, Norges Bank, Oslo 2003, 87-97. Norges Banks skriftserie Nr. 31, Oslo 2003, 83-94. (Norwegian version).

Working papers

1. "Lumpy Investment and State-Dependent Pricing in General Equilibrium" (with Michael Reiter and Lutz Weinke),  Working Paper 2009/05, Norges Bank.
2. "Revisiting the Importance of Non-Tradable Goods' Prices in Cyclical Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations" (with Ida W. Bache and Kjersti Næss), Working Paper 2009/03, Norges Bank.
3. "Inflation Dynamics and Labor Market Dynamics Revisited" (with Lutz Weinke), Kiel Working Papers 1368, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
4. "Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities, and the Taylor Principle" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2006/06, Norges Bank.
5. "Firm-Specific Capital and Welfare" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2006/04, Norges Bank.
6. "Is Lumpy Investment Really Irrelevant for the Business Cycle?" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2005/06, Norges Bank. Revised edition May 2007.
7. "Savers, Spenders and Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy" (with Egil Matsen and Ragnar Torvik), Working Paper 2004/18, Norges Bank.
8. "Firm-Specific Investment, Sticky Prices, and the Taylor Principle" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2004/12, Norges Bank.
9. "New Perspectives on Capital and Sticky Prices" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2004/03, Norges Bank.
10. "Pitfalls in the Modelling of Forward-Looking Price Setting and Investment Decisions" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2004/01, Norges Bank.
11. "Inflation and Output Dynamics with Firm-owned Capital" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper No. 702, Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2003.

Presentations

• Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (2004, 2006,2008,2009)
• Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy (2007)
• Central Bank Workshop on Macroeconomic Modelling (2003, 2004)
• European Summer Symposium in International Macroeconomics (ESSIM) (2008)
• Eastern European Universtity (2008)
• Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin (2009)
• Magyar Nemzeti Bank (2007)
• Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (2002, 2004, 2007)
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2006)
• Universitat de Girona (2007)
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2002,2007)

Teaching and Evaluation

• Monetary Economics (graduate course), University of Oslo (2008,2009,2010)
• Advanced Macroeconomics (PhD course, with Espen Henriksen and Erling Steigum Jr.), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (2006)
• Advanced Macroeconomics (PhD course, with Finn Kydland and Erling Steigum Jr.), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (2005)
• Advanced Macroeconomics (PhD course, with Egil Matsen and Erling Steigum Jr.), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (2004)
• Applied Macroeconomics (graduate course), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2002)

Visits

August 2006 - July 2007	CREI, Barcelona, Spain
January 1999 - August 1999	Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Personal

• Born: January 23, 1968
• Nationality: Norwegian