Karsten R. Gerdrup
Adviser / Economist
Norges Bank / Financial stability
E-mail: karsten.gerdrup@norges-bank.no
Phone: +47-22 31 64 40
Norges Bank
Bankplassen 2
P.O.Box 1179 Sentrum
0107 Oslo
Norway
Karsten H. Gerdrup is Economist from the University of Oslo (cand.oecon), of which one year at the University of Mannheim (Germany). After graduating from the University of Oslo in 1997, he worked two years at the Ministry of Finance on tax issues. He began working with financial stability issues and the Financial stability report in Norges Bank in Spring 1999. He stayed 6 months at the BIS in Winter 2002/2003. He is currently responsible for bank analysis, as part of work on Norges Bank's financial stability report, and the LoLR role of Norges Bank.
Papers
- "Three booms and busts involving banking crises in Norway since the 1890s". Norges Bank (forthcoming).
- "Three episodes of financial fragility in Norway since the 1890s". BIS Working Papers No. 142, 2003. Basel.
- "Banks' counterparty risk - results of a survey conducted by Norges Bank and the Banking, Insurance and Securities Commission. Norges Bank" (together with Bjørn Bakke). Economic Bulletin 2003, No. 2.
- "The risk associated with banks' foreign borrowing" (toghether with Arild Lund and Sindre Weme). Norges Bank. Economic Bulletin 2000, No. 3.
- "Skattesystem og skattestatistikk i et historisk perspektiv". Statistics Norway. Rapporter 1998/6.