From the Bank of Finland to a PhD at NHH,
14.11.2024, Heidi Koponen.
Four Chapters in Elgar Encyclopedia of Financial Crises,
13.11.2024, Ola Honningdal Grytten.
Malstrømmen må stoppe,
23.09.2024, Ola Honningdal Grytten.
Expansions in paid parental leave and mothers’ economic progress,
05.09.2024, Astrid Kunze.
Health insurance, agricultural production and investments,
26.08.2024, Fred Scroyen.
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms,
14.08.2024, Øivind Anti Nilsen.
Subjective Life Expectancies, Time Preference Heterogeneity, and Wealth Inequality,
14.08.2024, Jonna Olsson & Richard Foltyn.
Workshop: Gender diversity in organizations and careers,
29.05.2024, Astrid Kunze.
Betyr økt forventet levetid også flere år med god helse?,
02.04.2024, Fred Schroyen.
Ready to present main results of the Baltic100 project,
22.03.2024, Ola Honningdal Grytten.
Bergen Macro Workshop was hosted 07- 08 November 2024, by organizers Jonna Olsson and Tim Dominik Maurer. The theme was heterogeneity, expectations and structural models, and the program included participants from around Europe, such as University of Amsterdam, EIEF, Queen Mary and University of Surrey.
The paper titled "The effect of recent technological change on US immigration policy" by Björn Brey has been published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Tuesday 10. September the Macro Group gathered for their semester Kick Off.
We would like to warmly welcome Björn Brey to our Department and the Macro Group as a new tenure-track Associate Professor.
We are excited to announce that a member of the Macro Risk & Sustainability Group, Jonna Olsson, has been awarded a two-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission.
New paper titled "Behavioral Nudges Reduced Dropout Risk among Vulnerable Students during the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Brazil" by Eppie van Egeraat (with Guilherme Lichand, Julien Christen) has been published in AEA Papers and Proceedings in May 2023.
"The Unequal Consequences of Job Loss across Countries" by Antoine Berteau (with Edoardo Acabbi, Cristina Barcelo, Andreas Gulyas, Stefano Lombardi and Raffaele Saggio) has been published in American Economic Review: Insights in September 2023.
New paper titled "Labor supply when productivity keeps growing" by Jonna Olsson (with Timo Boppart and Per Krusell) has been published in Review of Economic Dynamics in August 2023.
New paper titled "Democratization, leader education and growth: firm-level evidence from Indonesia" by Paul Pelzl and Steven Poelhekke has been published in Journal of Economic Growth in February 2023.
New paper titled "Competition and risk taking in local bank markets: evidence from the business loans segment" by Øivind A. Nilsen, Chiara Canta and Simen A. Ulsaker is forthcoming in Journal of Empirical Finance.
Professor Vincent Sterk from University College London will join Department of Economics as Professor II from August 2023 and will be an affiliated member of the Macroeconomics, Risk and Sustainability Center.
New paper titled "Informed Enforcement: lessons from pollution monitoring in China" by Zichen Deng and Sebastian Axbard will be forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
New paper titled "Capital Regulations and the Management of Credit Commitments during Crisis Times" by Paul Pelzl and María Teresa Valderrama has been published in Review of Finance.
New paper titled "Can the economic growth of interwar Latvia be estimated by contemporary national accounts" by Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Norkus, Zenonas; Markeviciute, Jurgita; Silins, Janis has been published in Baltic Journal of Economics.
The paper titled "Bank Consolidation, Interest Rates, and Risk: A Post-Merger Analysis Based on Loan-Level Data from the Corporate Sector" by Steffen Juranek, Øivind Anti Nilsen and Simen A. Ulsaker will be forthcoming in Journal of Competition and Law.
Congratulations to Professor Astrid Kunze for winning the EEA the EEA Award for Exceptional Teaching!
The paper titled "Mortality transition in the interwar Baltic states: findings from cross-country comparison of new life tables" by Zenonas Norkus, Domantas Jasilionis, Ola Honningdal Grytten, Ilmārs Mežs and Martin Klesment has been published in Scandinavian Economic History Review.
New paper titled "Urbanisation and the Onset of Modern Economic Growth" by Liam Brunt and Cecilia García-Peñalosa has been published in The Economic Journal.
New paper titled "Pricing Behaviour and Menu Costs in Multi-product Firms" by Wilko Letterie (Maastricht University) and Øivind A. Nilsen (Norwegian School of Economics) has been published in Economica.
NHH is pleased to announce a vacancy in the PhD specialisation in Macroeconomics.
Congratulations to Håvard Skuterud and Ingeborg Munthe-Kaas Webster, winners of the Best Master Thesis in Economics in Autumn 2020 and Spring 2021! Håvard and Ingeborg were awarded the prize for their masters thesis: “Synchronization of Price Changes within Firms and Industries: A micro-level analysis using PPI data”
New paper titled "Price change synchronization within and between firms" by Øivind Anti Nilsen, Håvard Skuterud, and Ingeborg Munthe-Kaas Webster has been published in Economics Letters.
New paper titled "Early-life Famine Exposure, Hunger Recall and Later-life Health" by Zichen Deng (NHH) and Maarten Lindeboom (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) will be forthcoming in Journal of Applied Econometrics.
New paper titled "Costly reversals of bad policies: The case of the mortgage interest deduction" by Markus Karlman (NHH), Karin Kinnerud (BI), and Kasper Kragh-Sørensen (UiO) has been published in Review of Economic Dynamics.
Paper titled "Household Debt and Monetary Policy: Revealing the Cash-Flow Channel" Martin Flodén, Matilda Kilström, Jósef Sigurdsson, Roine Vestman has been published in The Economic Journal in May.
