At the Macro, Risk and Sustainability Centre we study how households, firms, and policy makers interact, and how this affects the aggregate economy. Issues like sustainability, inequality, the Norwegian welfare state, and the use of natural resources are core topics.
Application Deadline: 01 December 2024
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 four chapters titled "The banking crisis in Norway 1987–1993", "The Great Depression in Norway", "The post-war depression in Norway in the early 1920s" and "The Norwegian monetary crisis in the mid-1920s" by Ola H. Grytten has been published in the book Elgar Encyclopedia of Financial Crises.
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.
