Tommy Sveen

Curriculum Vitae

Education | Employment | Fields of interest | Publications | Working papers | Presentations | Teaching and evaluation | Visits | Personal

Education and Degrees

1997-2001

Dr. Oecon, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH)
Advisor: Prof. Erling Steigum Jr., Norwegian School of Management (BI)

1996-1997 Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research, Kiel Institute of World Economics, Germany
1993-1995 Cand.Oecon (Higher degree in economics), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
1989-1993 Master of Business and Economics, Norwegian School of Management (BI)

Employment

2005 -> Senior Advisor, Research Department, Norges Bank (Central Bank of Norway)
2002-2005 Researcher, Research Department, Norges Bank (Central Bank of Norway)
2001-2002 Post-doctoral Scholar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain

Fields of Specialization

  • Monetary Economics
  • Open Economy Macroeconomics

Publications

Research Articles

  1. "Lumpy Investment, Sticky Prices, and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism" (with Lutz Weinke), forthcoming in Journal of Monetary Economics (2007).
  2. "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).
  3. "Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities, and the Taylor Principle" (with Lutz Weinke), forthcomming in Journal of Economic Theory (2007).
  4. "New Perspectives on Capital, Sticky Prices, and the Taylor Principle" (with Lutz Weinke), Journal of Economic Theory 123 (2005), 21-39.

Other Publications

  1. "Pengepolitikk under et inflasjonsmål: en dynamisk analyse" (with Øistein Røisland), Norsk Økonomisk Tidsskrift 120 (2006), 90-103.
  2. "Pengepolitikk under et inflasjonsmål" (with Øistein Røisland), Norsk Økonomisk Tidsskrift 119 (2005), 16-38.
  3. "How does the exchange rate react to a cost-push shock?" (with Øistein Røisland). In: Explaining movements in the Norwegian exchange rate (Ø. Eitrheim and K. Gulbrandsen, Eds.), Occasional Papers No. 32, Norges Bank, Oslo 2003, 87-97. Norges Banks skriftserie Nr. 31, Oslo 2003, 83-94. (Norwegian version)

Working papers

  1. "Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities, and the Taylor Principle" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2006/06, Norges Bank. Revised edition May 2007.
  2. "Firm-Specific Capital and Welfare" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2006/04, Norges Bank.
  3. "Is Lumpy Investment Really Irrelevant for the Business Cycle?" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2005/06, Norges Bank.
  4. "Savers, Spenders and Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy" (with Egil Matsen and Ragnar Torvik), Working Paper 2004/18, Norges Bank.
  5. "Firm-Specific Investment, Sticky Prices, and the Taylor Principle" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2004/12, Norges Bank.
  6. "New Perspectives on Capital and Sticky Prices" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2004/03, Norges Bank.
  7. "Pitfalls in the Modelling of Forward-Looking Price Setting and Investment Decisions" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper 2004/01, Norges Bank.
  8. "Inflation and Output Dynamics with Firm-owned Capital" (with Lutz Weinke), Working Paper No. 702, Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2003.

Presentations

  • Central Bank Workshop on Macroeconomic Modelling (2003,2004)
  • Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (2004, 2006)

Teaching and Evaluation

  • Advanced Macroeconomics (PhD course, with Espen Henriksen and Erling Steigum Jr.), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (2006)
  • Advanced Macroeconomics (PhD course, with Finn Kydland and Erling Steigum Jr.), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (2005)
  • Advanced Macroeconomics (PhD course, with Egil Matsen and Erling Steigum Jr.), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (2004)
  • Applied Macroeconomics (graduate course), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2002)
  • Introduction to Economics (undergraduate course), Military Academy, Royal Norwegian Navy (1998,1999)

Visits

January 1999 - August 1999 Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Personal

  • Born: January 23, 1968
  • Nationality: Norwegian


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