Forskningsseminarer

Research seminars are usually held on Mondays, 12.00-13.00.

If you wish to attend one of the seminars and are not employed at Norges Bank, please notify the secretary PPO.Forv.FAPAOKA@Norges-Bank.no no later than one working day before the seminar. For security purposes, all visitors are required to show some form of identification before they can enter the Bank. Seminar participants are therefore requested to go to reception 15 minutes before the seminar is due to begin.

2007

Monday 17 December
Eirik G. Kristiansen, NHH:
”The Nobel Price in Economics 2007: Mechanism Design”

Monday 10 December
Jan F. Qvigstad, PPO and Olav Bjerkholt, UiO:
”Ragnar Frisch and his pamphlet from 1933: "Saving and Circulation Regulation"”

Monday 3 December
Eric Girardin, GREQAM (Marseille):
”Do interventions alter private behavior?”

Thursday 29 November, 10.00-11.00 am
Lasse Pedersen, New York University:
TBA

Monday 26 November
Tørres Trovik, FA:
”Nowcasting Norwegian GDP: The Role of Asset Prices in a Small Open Economy”

Monday 19 November
Lorán Chollete, NHH:
”The nature and causes of extreme events: An application to subprime spillovers”

Monday 12 November
Olga Andreeva, Kredittilsynet:
"Loan contracts under borrowers' tax evasion: the case of Russia"

Monday 5 November
Inaki Rodriguez, University of Tromsø:
”A Theory of Inefficient Quotes. Empirical Evidence in Options Markets”  

Monday 29 October
Henrik Jensen, Københavns Universitet:
TBA

Monday 15 October
Meenakshi Rajeev, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore:
”Financial Sector Reform and the Indian Banking Sector (Special Reference to Non Performing Assets)”

Monday 22 October
Gabriela Guibourg og Björn Segendorf, Sveriges Riksbank:
”The Costs of Paying – private and social costs of cash and card payments”

Monday 1 October
Klaus Mohn, Universitetet i Stavanger:
”A tale of two stories: Oil and gas company investment 1992-2005"

Monday 24 September
Thomas Lubik, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond: 
”On-the-Job Search and the Cyclical Dynamics of the Labor Market”

Monday 10 September
Dagfinn Rime, FA:
”Exchange rate forecasting, order flow and macroeconomic information”

Wednesday 5 September
Francisco J. Ruge-Murcia, Université de Montréal:
TBA 

Monday 13 August
Jón Steinsson, Columbia University
TBA

Thursday 5 July
Simon van Norden, HEC Montreal:
”Modeling Data Revisions: Measurement Error and Dynamics of "True" values”

Monday 18 June
Knut Sydsæter, UiO:
”Spredte matematiske betraktninger”

Monday 11 June
Paolo Vitale, Universit`a D’Annunzio and CEPR:
The impact of FX intervention on FX markets: A market microstructure analysis

Monday 4 June
Anna Pavlova, LBS:
“The role of portfolio constraints in the international propagation of shocks”

Monday 21 May
Knut Sandal, FIM:
"Bankkrisen i Norge 1988-1992 - Hva du bør vite om bankkrisen"

Monday 14 May
Luca Sala, IGIER Bocconi:
"Forecasting the term structure of interest rates"

Monday 7 May
Roman Sustek, Bank of England:
"Inflation, the nominal interest rate and economic fluctuations: The business cycle accounting perspective"

Monday 23 April
Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:
"Not all oil price shocks are alike: Disentangling demand and supply shocks in the crude oil market"

Tuesday 27 March 11.15 am - 12.30 pm
Charles Wyplosz, Graduate Institute of International Studies:
"On interest rate publication"

Monday 19 March
Ester Faia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra:
"Optimal monetary policy with labor market frictions"

Monday 5 March
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martin Uribe, Duke University:
"Optimal inflation stabilization in a medium-scale macroeconomic model".

Monday 19 February
Francesco Furlanetto, University of Lausanne:
"Optimal monetary policy with labor market frictions"

Monday 5 February
Virginia Queijo von Heideken, IIES Stockholm
"Monetary Policy Regimes and the Volatility of Long-Term Interest Rates"

 

 Monday 29 January
Robert Hall, Stanford University:
"How much do we understand about booms and recessions?"

Thursday 25 January, 11.00 - 12.00 am
Charles Goodhart, LSE:
"Searching for a metric for financial stability"

Monday 22 January
Nancy Masschelein, National Bank of Belgium:
"Credit risk concentration"

Monday 15 January
Fredrik Wilander, ECON:
"The currency denomination of exports - a questionnaire study"

Monday 8 January
Kjell Bjørn Nordal, FA:
"Banks' optimal implementation strategies for a risk sensitive regulatory rule: a real options and signalling approach"

2006

Monday 18 December
Roger Hammersland, FA:
"Financial indicators and macroeconomic development"

Monday 11 December
Steinar Holden, UiO:
"Nobelprisen til den utvidete Phillipskurven, etter nesten 40 år"

Monday 4 December
James Mitchell, National Institute of Economics and Social Research:
TBA

Friday 1 December
Dominico Giannone, Universite Libre de Bruxelles:
"Factor models"

Monday 20 November
Junior Maih, ØKA:
"Wage-price dynamics in a DSGE model with imperfect exchange rate pass-through"

Thursday 16 November
Pär Österholm, Sveriges Riksbank og Uppsala Universitet:
"Incorporating judgement in fan charts" (Room A1.501 kl 12-13)

Monday 13 November
Simon Potter, Federal Reserve Bank of New York:
"Measuring core inflation"

Wednesday 8 November
Cancelled

Monday 30 October
Philipp Hartmann, ECB:
"The economic impact of bank merger control: What is special about banking?"

Monday 23 Oktober
Krisztina.Molnar, NHH:
"Optimal monetary policy when agents are learning"

Monday 16 October
Fredrik Wulfsberg, FA: "Are real wages rigid downwards?"

Wednesday 11 October
Morten Ravn, EUI:
"Labor markets and business cycle dynamics"

Monday 25 September
Katrin Assenmacher-Wesche, BIS, and Stefan Gerlach, Swiss National Bank:
"Interpreting Euro Area inflation at high and low frequencies" Link to paper

Monday 18 September
Farooq Akram, FA:
"Finansiell stabilitet under inflasjonsstyring"

Monday 11 September
Roberto Rigobon, MIT:
"Sticky prices and passthrough"

Monday 4 September
Shaun Vahey, ØKA:
"RBNZ monetary policy and modelling"

Monday 14 August
Cancelled

Friday 30 June
Carol Osler, University of Warwick:
"Economic sources of high-frequency exchange rate instability"

Monday 19 June
Cancelled

Tuesday 13 June
Andrew Ang, Columbia University:
"The term structure of real rates and expected inflation"

Monday 12 June
Robert Marquez, University of Maryland:
"Credit market competition and capital regulation"

Wednesday 7 June
Glenn Rudebush:
"Revealing the secrets of the temple: The value of publishing interest rate projections."

Tuesday 6 June
Noah Williams, Princeton University:
12.00 - 13.00. "Hyperinflations: Expectations, escapes, and regimes"

Tuesday 6 June
Josef Zechner, Universität Wien:
15.00 - 16.00. "Portfolio performance, discount dynamics, and the turnover of closed-end managers".

Monday 22 May
Karl Walentin, Sveriges Riksbank:
"Financial frictions, investment and Tobin's q".

Monday 15 May
Cancelled

Friday 12 May
Harald Uhlig, Humboldt-Universität:
New evidence on the puzzles: Results from agnostic identification on monetary policy and exchange rates

Monday 8 May
Andreas Westermark, Uppsala Universitet:
TBA

Tuesday 2 May
Robert Hauswald, American University:
"Distance and information asymmetries in lending decisions"

Wednesday 26 April
Ricardo Reis, Prinecton:
TBA

Monday 3 April
Steven Ongena, University of Tilburg:
"The impact of organizational structure and lending technology on banking competition"

Friday 31 March
Willem Buiter, LSE:
"The elusive welfare economics of price stability as a monetary policy objective: Why New Keynesian central bankers should validate core inflation"

Tuesday 28 March
Kristian Miltersen, NHH:
"Dynamic capital structure with callable debt and debt renegotiations"

Monday 27 March
Karlo Kauko, Bank of Finland:
"The mixed oligopoly of cross-border payment systems"

Monday 20 March
Oleg Zamulin, Stockholm School of Economics:
"Natural resource revenues and monetary policy"

Monday 13 March
Espen Moen, BI:
" Prestasjonslønn og lønnstivhet i søkelikevekt"

Monday 27 February
Ole Christian Bech-Moen, UiO:
"Gender differences in market and home hours - Is it all about wages?"

Tuesday 14 February 1.00 pm - 2.00 pm
Paul De Grauwe, KU Leuven:
"Fundamental and non-fundamental equilibria in the foreign exchange market. A behavioural finance framework"

Monday 13 February
Jagjit Chadha, Brunel University:
TBA

Monday 6 February
Jaap Bos, Utrecht School of Economics:
"Efficiency in a single European banking market"

Monday 23 January
Karl-Olof Hammarkvist, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm:
"Forvaltning av svenske pensjonsfond - erfaringer og forbedringsmuligheter"

Monday 16 January
Alexander Cappelen, NHH:
"Hva holder vi hverandre ansvarlige for?"

2005

Monday 12 December
Timothy J. Kehoe, University of Minnesota:
"Real exchange rate fluctuations - without nominal frictions"

Monday 28 November
Espen Eckbo, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth:
"Auksjoner etter selskapskonkurser - teori og empiri"

Monday 21 November
Dagfinn Rime, FA:
"Holder udekket renteparitet?"

Monday 14 November
Tommy Stamland, NHH:
"Hvor informativ er bedrifters informasjonsformidling: Effekten av åpenhet og regnskapsstandarder"

Monday 7 November
Ida Wolden Bache, FA:
"SVAR og DSGE modeller for valutakursgjennomslaget i en liten åpen økonomi"

Monday 24 October
Ben Haim-Yakov, Technion, Haifa:
"Monetary policy when data and model are uncertain - how to manage our ignorance"

Monday 3 October
Ross Starr, UC San Diego:
"Microeconomic general equilibrium theory foundations of a monetary economy".

Tuesday 27 September
Pierre Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University:
"The Fed's reaction to the stock market during the Great Depression: Fact or artefact?"

Monday 26 September
Bent Vale, FA:
"What determines banks' market power? Akerlof versus Herfindahl"

Monday 19 September
Hilde Bjørland, UiO:
"Identifying the interdependence between US monetary policy and the stock market"

Monday 12 September
Dale Henderson, Federal Reserve, Board of Governors:
The welfare effects of alternative monetary policies: Getting down to basics"

Monday 5 September
Knut Anton Mork, Handelsbanken:
"Stimulating rate hikes?"

Monday 29 August
Hui Tong, Bank of England:
"Trade and investment in Asia"

Friday 24 June
Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley:
"The future of the international monetary and financial architecture"

Monday 20 June
Bård Harstad, Kellogg School of Management:
"Voting rules: The effect on incentives, strategic delegation and revelation of private information"

Monday 13 June
Michael Ehrmann, ECB:
"Stocks, bonds, money markets, and exchange rates - Measuring international financial transmission"

Monday 6 June
Carl Andreas Claussen, Norges Bank, PA: "Organiseringen av rentebeslutningen"

Monday 30 May
Allen Berger, Federal Reserve, Board of Governors: "Bank capital and liquidity creation"

Tuesday 24 May
Paul Söderlind, University of St. Gallen: "Is there evidence of pessimism and doubt in subjective distributions? Implications for the equity premium puzzle"

Monday 23 May
Michael Melvin, Arizona State University: "Informed traders, depth, and the convergence of price to equilibrium"

Monday 9 May
Alfred Lehar, University of Vienna: "Using price information as an instrument of market discipline in regulating bank risk".

Wednesday 27 April
Jordi Gali, Universitat Pompeu Fabra: "Modern perspectives on stabilization policies"

Monday 18 April
Kai Leitemo, Handelshøyskolen BI: "Hvor vellykket var inflasjonsmålsyyringen i Sverige i perioden 1993 - 2003? Syv enkle tester"

Monday 11 April
Hans-Martin Krolzig, University of Kent, Keynes College: "European business cycles"

Friday 8 April
Jeffrey Fuhrer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: "Intrinsic and inherited inflation persistence"

Monday 4 April
Min Wei, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: "Human capital, business cycles, and asset pricing"