Professor Asbjørn Rødseth (borne 1951) has been dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences since 2002 and is reelected until the end of 2007. He has been associated with the University of Oslo more or less continuously since he became a student there in 1970, since 1989 as a professor of economics. His main research area is macroeconomics, with focus on international aspects and on labor markets, and he has been an active participant in the debate about Norwegian fiscal and monetary policy. Earlier he did research also on consumer behavior, especially in relation to energy and housing markets. Rødseth has been chair of the Department of Economics and he has had a number of public assignments. He is currently a member of the board of Norges Bank (the Norwegian Central Bank). Rødseth has always taken a keen interest in teaching. He has published two text-books, and in the 1980s he led a reform of the study program in economics.
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Supplementary material for Open Economy Macroeconomics, Cambridge University Press 2000
Adress: Department of Economics, University of Oslo, P.O.Box 1095 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway. E-mail: asbjorn.rodseth@econ.uio.no Phone: (+47) 22855133 Fax: (+47) 22855035. Office: Room 1111, Eilert Sundts hus, Blindern (Moltke Moes veg 31).
January 2005.