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Tommy Sveen

E-mail: tommy.sveen@norges-bank.no

Phone: +47 22 31 69 47
Fax: +47 22 42 40 62
Norges Bank
Bankplassen 2
P.O.Box 1179 Sentrum
0107 Oslo
Norway

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Tommy Sveen is a Senior Advisor in the research department and joined Norges Bank in August 2002. He obtained his PhD in economics at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 2001. In the academic year 2006-07 he is a visiting researcher at Centre de Reserca en Economia International (CREI), Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
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Research interests

Sveen's research fields are monetary economics and open economy macroeconomics. His current research focuses on (i) firm-specific capital accumulation and inflation dynamics, (ii) lumpy investment and state-contingent price-setting, (iii) and labor market frictions and inflation.

Work in progress

• "Firm-Specific Capital and Welfare" (with Lutz Weinke)
• "Inflation and Labor Market Dynamics Revisited" (with Lutz Weinke)
• "Firm-Specific Capital and Welfare", with Lutz Weinke (Duke University)

Recent publications

• "Lumpy Investment, Sticky Prices, and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism" (with Lutz Weinke), forthcoming in Journal of Monetary Economics (2007).
• "Savers, Spenders and Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy" (with Egil Matsen and Ragnar Torvik), forthcoming in The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Topics) (2007).
• "Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities, and the Taylor Principle", with Lutz Weinke (Duke University), forthcomming in Journal of Economic Theory (2007).
• "New Perspectives on Capital, Sticky Prices, and the Taylor Principle", with Lutz Weinke (Duke University), Journal of Economic Theory 123 (2005), 21-39.