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- Professor in Macro and Monetary Policy
Issues at Department of Economics,
University of Oslo.
- For a 7 year period, as of 1 March
2004, the professorship
is based on a donation from Norges Bank.
- Professional interests: Wage setting,
monetary policy, macroeconomics, labour market, bargaining.
- Main teaching responsibilities:
Macroeconomics.
- Scientific Advisor to the Research
Department of Norges Bank (the central bank of Norway).
- Leder av
arbeidsutvalget i Senter for pengepolitisk og finansiell forskning
- Former head of two governmental
commissions
- Ekspertutvalget for
konkurranseutsatt sektor: NOU
2003:13. PowerPoint
– presentasjon. (Expert Commission on
the Traded Sector)
- Utvalget
for sysselsetting og verdiskaping, NOU 2000: 21. (Governmental Commission on Employment and
Wealth Creation)
- Member of Norges Bank Watch 2005. Presentation Report
- Head of Norges Bank Watch 2006. Presentation Report
- Department of Economics, University of
Oslo, Box 1095 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway
- Tel: 47 22855156
- Fax: 47 22855035
- Email: steinar.holden@econ.uio.no
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- "How strong is the case for downward
real wage rigidity?"
(with Fredrik Wulfsberg), June 2007, in PDF
format. (Former title: Are real wages rigid downwards? Handout
- "‘Large’ vs.
‘small’ players: A closer look at the dynamics of
speculative attacks" (with Geir H. Bjønnes, Dagfinn Rime, Haakon
O.Aa. Solheim), in PDF format.
- "Downward nominal wage rigidity in the
OECD" (with Fredrik Wulfsberg), revised February 2007, in PDF format. handout
- "The Interaction of Labor Markets and
Inflation: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility
Project". (with William T. Dickens,
Lorenz Götte, Erica L. Groshen, Julián
Messina, Mark E. Schweitzer, Jarkko Turunen and Melanie
Ward-Warmedinger), preliminary version February 2007, in PDF format.
- "Contract adjustment under
uncertainty". (with Helge Holden and Lars Holden). March 2006, in PDF format.
- "Wage differentiation via subsidised
general training". (with V. Bhaskar), revised version June 2004, in PDF format.
- "Coordination, fair treatment and
inflation persistence", (with John Driscoll), December 2002, in PDF format.
- "Indebtedness and unemployment: A
durable relationship", (with Tore Ellingsen), revised version April
2002, in PDF format.
- "Downward nominal wage rigidity -
contracts or fairness considerations", Prelimary version 18 June 2002
in PDF format.
- "The Public Budget Balance - Fiscal
Indicators and Cyclical Sensitivity in the Nordic Countries", (with
Henrik Braconier),Working Paper No 67, 1999, National Institute of
Economic Research, Stockholm, in PDF format.
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- "How wages change: micro evidence from
the International Wage Flexibility Project", by William T. Dickens,
Lorenz Götte, Erica L. Groshen, Steinar Holden, Julián
Messina, Mark E. Schweitzer, Jarkko Turunen and Melanie
Ward-Warmedinger, Journal of
Economic Perspectives,
21, 2, Spring 2007, 195-214, working paper version in PDF format.
- "Monetary regimes and the
co-ordination of wage setting". European Economic Review 49,
2005, 833-843, almost identical working paper version in PDF format.
- "Behavioural macroeconomics and the
aggregate supply puzzle". The Nordic Journal of Political Economy
30 (1), 2004, 27-36, almost identical working paper version in PDF format.
- "Wage formation under low inflation".
In Collective Bargaining and Wage Formation - Challenges for an
European Labour Market, H. Piekkola and K. Snellman (eds),
Springer-Verlag, 2004, pp 39-58. working paper version in PDF format.
- "Fairness and inflation persistence".
(with John Driscoll). Journal of European Economic Association 2,
(2-3), Papers and Proceedings, 2004, 240-251. almost identical
working paper version in PDF
format.
- "The costs of price stability -
downward nominal wage rigidity in Europe" (revised version of Monetary
policy and nominal rigidity under low inflation"), Economica 71,
2004, 183-208. An electronic version of the paper is available
in PDF format. Complete citation
information is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery
service, see http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.
- "Inflation persistence and relative
contracting", (with John Driscoll), American Economic Review
93, September 2003, 1369-1372, (previously circulated as "A note on
inflation persistence"), almost identical working paper version in PDF format.
- "Wage setting under different monetary
regimes", Economica, 70, 2003, 251-266, in PDF format.
- "Stabilization policy in an open
economy", (with Torben M. Andersen), Journal of Macroeconomics
24, 2002, 293-312, almost identical working paper version in PDF format.
- "Measuring structural unemployment:
NAWRU-estimates in the Nordic countries", (with Ragnar Nymoen), Scandinavian
Journal of Economics 104, 2002, 87-104, almost identical
working paper version in PDF format
. (Previous title: "Measuring structural unemployment: Is there a rough
and ready answer").
- "Does price stability exacerbate
labour market rigidities in the EMU?", Empirica 28, 2001,
401-417, almost identical working paper version in PDF format.
- "Noisy signals in target zone
regimes", (with Dag Kolsrud), European Economic Review 43,
1999, 1531-1567.
- "Renegotiation and the efficiency of
investments", Rand Journal of Economics 30, 1999, Spring,
106-119, almost identical working paper version in PDF format.
- "Wage drift and the relevance of
centralised wage setting". Scandinavian Journal of Economics 100,
1998, 711-731, almost identical working paper version in PDF format.
- "Comment on "A monetary policy
framework for Norway: the options" by W.E. Alexsander, J.H. Green and
B. Arnason", in Choosing a Monetary Policy Target, A.B.
Christiansen and J.F. Qvigstad (eds), Scandinavian University Press
1998, pp 61-65, in web format.
- "Measures to improve wage formation in
Sweden. Comments on proposals regarding mediation and conflict
resolution", (with Karl Ove Moene), bilag til SOU 1998:141 Medling och
lönebildning, English version in PDF
format.
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- "Om topplederlønninger" -
sammenfatning av foredrag holdt på seminar om lederlønn i
Arbeids- og inkluderingsdepartementet 21. juni 2007, PDF format.
- "Raskere renteøkning -
nå!" Økonomisk forum nr 7, 2006, side 48-52, i web format.
- "Kortere arbeidsdag – bedre liv
eller
trussel mot velferdsstaten?", Søkelys
på arbeidsmarkedet 23, 2006, 83-87, i PDF format.
- "Om god og dårlig deflasjon".
Økonomisk forum nr 6, 2004, side 14-15, i pdf format.
- "Konkurranseevne,
lønnsdannelse og kronekurs", Økonomisk forum 57, nr 5,
juni 2003, 15-19, i PDF format.
- "Oljepenger
og "ubetalte regninger"" (Om Nasjonalbudsjettet 2002). Økonomisk
forum 55, nr 5, oktober 2001, side 8-10, i PDF
format.
- "En
strategi for sysselsetting og verdiskaping". Sosialøkonomen
54, nr 6, september 2000, side 10-15, i PDF format.
- "Inntektspolitikk
ved et inflasjonsmål". Foreløpig versjon 1. mars 2000, i PDF format (er
med mindre endringer senere blitt trykket i Perspektiver på
pengepolitikken, Jan Fredrik Qvigstad og Øistein
Røisland (eds), 2000, Gyldendal Akademisk.
- "Om
virkninger av bruk av oljeinntekter på næringsstrukturen".
notat 25. januar 1999, i PDF format.
- "Pengepolitisk
regime for Norge". Foreløpig versjon 22. desember 1998, i PDF format (er med mindre endringer senere blitt trykket
i Euroen og den norske krones skjebne, Arne Jon Isachsen og Ole
Bjørn Røste (eds), 1999, Fagbokforlaget).
- "Sentrale
lønnsforhandlinger, lønnsforskjeller og
samfunnsøkonomisk effektivitet", Søkelys på
arbeidsmarkedet 15, 1998, 69-76, i PDF format.
- "Inntektspolitikken
- hvordan virker den og hva kan oppnås?", Arbeidsnotat ved
Finansdepartementet, nr 29, 1998, i PDF format.
- "Kronekurs
og valutakursregime - må kronen appresiere?", Sosialøkonomen
51, nr 5, 1997, 2-8.
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- Born in Oslo, 1 March 1961
- Married to Randi Wergeland Brekke
- Children Anders ( May 1988), Mari
( July 1990) and Eivind (March 1996).
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