Egil Matsen
- Associate Professor
- Department of Economics, NTNU, NO-7491
- Dragvoll University Campus, building 7,
level 5, room 7534
- Telephone: +47 73 59 78 52 (direct line) +47 73 59 19 40 (office)
- Fax: +47 73 59 69 54
- E-mail: egil.matsen@svt.ntnu.no
- My CV.pdf
Primary fields of interest: Macroeconomics;
Finance; Behavioural
Research in progress: (You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download the papers)
“Habit formation, strategic
extremism and debt policy” October 2007 (with Øystein Thøgersen).
“Optimal
portfolio choice and investment in human capital”, June 2007 (with Snorre Lindset).
“Joker:
Choice in a simple game with large stakes”, May 2007 (with Bjarne Strøm).
"Portfolio
choice when managers control returns", March 2007.
Published papers:
“Savers, spenders, and fiscal
policy in a small open economy” The
B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 7 (1) (Topics), August 2007 (with Tommy Sveen
and Ragnar Torvik).
“Optimal
Dutch disease” Journal of
Development Economics, 78 (2), December 2005 (with Ragnar Torvik).
"International
diversification, growth, and welfare with non-traded income risk and incomplete
markets" Applied Financial
Economics 15 (15), October 2005.
“Interest
rate decisions in an asymmetric monetary union” European Journal of Political Economy, 21 (2), June 2005 (with Øistein Røisland).
"Designing social security - A
portfolio choice approach" European Economic Review,
48 (4), August 2004 (with Øystein Thøgersen).
"Public
employment and regional risk sharing" Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 106 (2), June 2004 (with Lars-Erik Borge).
"Financial integration and consumption
comovements in the Nordic countries" European
Review of Economics and Finance, 3 (2), April 2004 (with Øystein Thøgersen).
"Habit
persistence and welfare gains from international asset trade", Journal
of International Money and Finance,
22 (2), April 2003.
Editor: Egil Matsen, Contact address: Egil.Matsen@svt.ntnu.no, Updated:
November 28, 2005.