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Curriculum Vitae


Jan F. Qvigstad


Executive Director and Chief Economist, Monetary Policy

Education | Employment | Fields of interest | Publications | Personal | Miscellaneous

Education and degrees

1982 Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics Cambridge, England
1975 Cand. Oceon. Insitute of Economics University of Oslo

Employment

1997 - Executive Director and Chief Economist in Norges Bank Monetary Policy.
2000 - Professor II in Economics, Norwegian School of Management, BI
1992-1996 Director, Economics Department, Norges Bank
1990-1992 Senior Officer, EFTA, Geneva Switzerland. Special coordination responsibility for financial services and capital movements in the EEA-negotiations
1985-1990 Assistant Director, Economics Department, Norges Bank
1978-1984 Head of Office and the Deputy Director, Ministry of Finance
1974-1978 Research Assistant, Institute of Economics University of Oslo

Fields of Specialization

Research is manly concentrated in the fields of monetary economics and applied macroeconomics.

Publications

Articles

  1. "When does an interest rate path "look good"? Criteria for an appropriate future interest rate path" Norges Bank Working Paper 2006/05
  2. "500 years of price history: Price stability is the norm. What distinguishes the abnormal?", Talk at the conference entitled "Historical Monetary Statistics for Norway", Bogstad 7 June 2005, Staff Memo 2005/7, Norges Bank,
  3. "When does an interest path look good? Criteria for an appropriate future interest rate path - A practitioners approach", Staff Memo 2005/6, Norges Bank,
  4. "Policy-making and models at Norges Bank", Summary of talk held at Norges Bank's conference entitled "Economic models at central banks", in Oslo 7 April 2005. Staff Memo 2005/5, Norges Bank,
  5. "How to treat the exchange rate assumption for an inflation targeting regime", Staff Memo 2005/4, Norges Bank
  6. "Monetary Policy in Real Time: The Role of Simple Rules " (co-authors Kjetil Olsen and Øystein Røisland), BIS policy Paper no 19, 2003
  7. "Some comments to Orphanides and Svensson", "The Role of Monetary Policy Rules in Inflation Targeting Regimes - Theory meets Practice", Workshop, Norges Bank 5-6 May 2003
  8. "Monetary Policy in Real Time.", Norges Bank Working Paper 2001/1, Norges Bank
  9. "Hva er så spesielt med pengepolitikken?" ("What is so special about monetary policy?") (co-author Øistein Røisland), in Perspektiver på pengepolitikken, Gyldendal Akademisk, 2000
  10. "Monetary Policy Rules in Norway - a Counterfactual Experiment Using the Norges Bank Macroeconomic Model RIMINI" (co-author Øyvind Eitrheim), manuscript
  11. "Inflasjonsrapporten som instrument" ("The Inflation Report as an instrument") (co-author Amund Holmsen), Norges Banks Skriftserie, 28, 20-26, 1999
  12. "Norge og felles mynt i Europa - en kommentar" ("Norway and the common European currency - a commentary"), in ØMU og pengepolitikken i Norden, Norges Banks Skriftserie, 26, 124-128, 1998
  13. "Norwegian Traditions and International Trends", in Choosing a Monetary Policy Target, Scandinavian University Press, 1997
  14. "Monetary Policy in Norway - experience since 1992" (co-author Jon Nicolaisen), BIS Policy Papers, 2, 101-132, 1997
  15. "Valutakursregimer - historiske erfaringer og fremtidige utfordringer" ("Exchange rate regimes - historical experiences and future challenges") (co-author Arent Skjæveland), in Stabilitet og langsiktighet - Festskrift til Hermod Skånland, Aschehoug, 1994
  16. "Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). A Survey of the EMU and Empirical Evidence on Convergence for the EC and the EFTA countries", EFTA Occasional Papers no 36, 1992
  17. "Finansielle tjenester, kapitalbevegelser og økonomisk-politisk samarbeid innefor EØS-avtalen" ("Financial services, capital movements and cooperation on economic policy within the EEA agreement"), Penger og Kreditt, 1991
  18. "EF's pengeunion" (The EU monetary union"), Sosialøkonomen, 1991
  19. "Er det så opplagt at…? ("Is it so obvious that...?")" An interview with Professor Haavelmo on the occasion of him being awarded the Nobelprice, Sosialøkonomen, 1989
  20. "Tilbud og etterspørsel i de makroøkonomiske modellene ("supply and demand in macroeconomic models") (co-author Tore Eriksen and Sigurd Tveitereid), in Vekst og sysselsetting - Festskrift til Eivind Erichsen, Cappelen, 1987
  21. "Er realrentenivået høyt?" ("Is the real interest rate level high?"), Bergen Bank kvartalsskrift, 1986
  22. "Statsgjelden - et problem når veksten er lav og renten er høy" ("Government debt - a problem when growth is low and the interest rate high") (co-author Michael Hoel), Sosialøkonomen, 1986
  23. "Sesongjustering i arbeidet med konjunkturanalyse" ("Seasonal adjustment in work on cyclical analysis") (co-author Kjell G. Bleivik), Penger og Kreditt, 1986
  24. "Utviklingen i pengemengden gjennom 1984 og 1985" ("Developments in the money supply thorough 1984 and 1985") (co-author Harald Bøhn), Sosialøkonomen, 1985
  25. "The Use of Macroeconomic Models in Economic Policy Making" (co-author Tore Eriksen), Economic Modelling, 1985
  26. "Finmod - en finanspolitisk modell" ("Finmod - a fiscal policy model") (co-author Tore Eriksen), Sosialøkonomen, 1983
  27. "Bruk av modeller i den økonomisk-politiske debatt" ("The use of models in the economic policy debate"), Sosialøkonomen, 1982
  28. "Portrett: Professor Frank Hahn - monetarismen har vært en ulykke" ("Portrait: Professor Frank Hahn - monetarism has been a calamity"), Sosialøkonomen, 1982
  29. "The Use of Macroeconomic Models in Economic Policy Making, The Norwegian Experience", GPP519, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, 1982
  30. "A Fiscal Policy Model for Norway", GPP521, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, 1982
  31. "Arbeidsmiljø - en økonomisk analyse. Del 1: Arbeidsmiljø og næringsstruktur" ("Working environment - an economic analysis. Part 1: Working environment and industrial structure") (co-author Tore Eriksen), Sosialøkonomen,1979
  32. "Arbeidsmiljø - en økonomisk analyse. Del 2: Teoretiske refleksjoner om arbeidsmiljø" ("Working environment - an economic analysis. Part 2: Theoretical reflections on working environment") (co-author Tore Eriksen), Sosialøkonomen,1979
  33. "Arbeidsmiljø og næringsstruktur" ("Working environment and insdustrial structure") (co-author Tore Eriksen), Memorandum from Sosialøkonomisk Institutt, 1978
  34. "A Study of Consumption Costs" (co-author Tore Thonstad), Memorandum from Sosialøkonomisk Institutt, 1977
  35. "Noen emner fra inflasjonsteorien" ("Some topics from inflation theory") prepared on the basis of Professor Haavelmo's lectures, Memorandum from Sosialøkonomisk Institutt, 1977

Books (editor and co-editor)

  1. "Tilbakeblikk på norsk pengehistorie. Konferanse 7. juni 2005 på Bogstad gård. Øyvind Eitrheim og Jan F. Qvigstad (red.). Oslo 2005" , Norges Banks Skriftserie, 37, 2005
  2. "Historical Monetary Statisics for Norway 1819 - 2003" (co-editors: Øyvind Eitrheim and Jan Klovland., Norges Bank Occasional Paper, 35, 2004
  3. "Perspektiver på pengepolitikken" ("Perspectives on monetary policy") (co-editor Øistein Røiseland), Gyldendal Akademisk 2000
  4. "ØMU og pengepolitikken i Norden" ("EMU and monetary policy in the Nordic countries"), Norges Banks Skriftserie, 26, 1998
  5. "Choosing a Monetary Policy Target" (co-editor Ms. Anne Berit Christiansen), Scandinavian University Press, 1997)
  6. "Stabilitet og langsiktighet - Festskrift til Hermod Skånland" ("Stablity and longtermism - Collection of articles dedicated to Hermod Skånland") (co-editors Sigbjørn Atle Berg and Kjell Storvik), Aschehoug, 1994

Personal

  • Born 29 August 1949
  • Cell phone: (Int +47) 91 78 68 35

Miscellaneous

  • Member of Steigum Committee "Norsk økonomi i forandring" ("Changing Norwegian economy"). NOU 1988:21
  • Editor of Sosialøkonomen 1974-1976
  • Member of the Working Committee of CME (Centre for Monetary Economics) at the Norwegian School of Management 1999-2003

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