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

2008->	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. "Firm-Specific Capital and Welfare", (with Lutz Weinke), International Journal of Central Banking, forthcoming.
2. "New Keynesian Perspectives on Labor Market Dynamics", (with Lutz Weinke), Journal of Monetary Economics 55 (2008), 921-930.
3. "Lumpy Investment, Sticky Prices, and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism" (with Lutz Weinke), Journal of Monetary Economics 54S (2007), 23-36.
4. "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.
5. "Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities, and the Taylor Principle" (with Lutz Weinke), Journal of Economic Theory 127 (2007), 729-737.
6. "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. "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.
2. "Inflation Dynamics and Labor Market Dynamics Revisited" (with Lutz Weinke), Kiel Working Papers 1368, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
3. "Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities, and the Taylor Principle" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2006/06, Norges Bank.
4. "Firm-Specific Capital and Welfare" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2006/04, Norges Bank.
5. "Is Lumpy Investment Really Irrelevant for the Business Cycle?" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2005/06, Norges Bank. Revised edition May 2007.
6. "Savers, Spenders and Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy" (with Egil Matsen and Ragnar Torvik), Working Paper 2004/18, Norges Bank.
7. "Firm-Specific Investment, Sticky Prices, and the Taylor Principle" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2004/12, Norges Bank.
8. "New Perspectives on Capital and Sticky Prices" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2004/03, Norges Bank.
9. "Pitfalls in the Modelling of Forward-Looking Price Setting and Investment Decisions" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2004/01, Norges Bank.
10. "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)
• 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)
• 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, with Espen Henriksen and Øistein Røisland), University of Oslo (2008)
• 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