Past seminars

2023

14 Feb at Oslomet:  Martin Schmalz, Oxford: "Index funds, asset prices, and the welfare of investors"  and   Håkon Tretvoll, SSB: "Welfare and Spending Effects of Consumption Stimulus Policies"

14 March at UiO:  Ewoud Quaghebeur, SSB: “Expectations, learning, and government spending multipliers in the euro area” and  Marcus Hagedorn, UiO: "A Nominal Demand-Augmented Phillips Curve: Theory and Evidence"

11 April at BI: Martin Holm, UiO: “The Investment Channel of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Norway” and Sophie Cottet, UiS: “Payroll Tax Reductions for Minimum Wage Workers: Relative Labor Cost or Cash Windfall Effects? ”

9 May at SSB: Nicolò Maffei Faccioli, Norges Bank: "Macroeconomic Shocks and Crime Rates in the US" and Simon Galle, BI: "The Unequal Effects of Trade and Automation Across Local Labor Markets"

Tuesday 19 Sep at UiO: Fernando Stepanicic, UiO: The Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from the Jet Age, and Jiu Lian, ANU: Revisiting Taxes on High Incomes 

Tuesday 14 Nov at BI: Ruslana Datsenko, UiO: “Monetary Policy Transmission and Firm-Level Volatility: Uncertainty Versus Risks”, and Maximilian Schröder, BI: “Mixing it up: Inflation at risk”

2022

1 March at SSB: Nicolò Maffei-Faccioli, Norges Bank: "Bad News, Good News: Coverage and Response Asymmetries" and Charlotte Paulie, SSB: "Dual income taxation and wealth inequality"

OMG seminar #50: 5 April at Oslomet:  Dora Zsuzsanna Simon, UiS: "Does International Trade Aggravate or Mitigate Climate Change? A Quantitative Analysis of the Green Economy" and  Ella Getz Wold, BI: "The Saving and Employment Effects of Higher Job Loss Risk"

24 May at UiO:  Martin Blomhoff Holm, UiO:  "A Parsimonious Model of Idiosyncratic Income” and Linnea Lorentzen, BI: "The Domino Effects: Understanding Sectoral Reallocation and its Wage Implications"

11 October at BI: Karl Harmenberg, BI: "Macroeconomic Dynamics with Rigid Wage Contracts" and Kalle Moene, UiO: "Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining"

15 November at SSB:  Annika Bacher, BI: “Joint Search over the Life-Cycle”
Magnus A.H. Gulbrandsen, Norges Bank: "Peer effects and debt accumulation" 

13 December at Norges Bank: Danial Ali Akbari, UiO: “Shaping inequality: Progressive taxation under human capital accumulation” and Ivan Alfaro, BI: "On exchange rates and fundamentals"

2021

7 December: Eleonora Granziera, Norges Bank: ”Nowcasting Norwegian Household Consumption with Debit Card Transaction Data”
Tatyana Marchuk, BI: “Direct Lenders in the U.S. Middle Market” 

9 November at BI: Elin Halvorsen, SSB: "Why Are the Wealthiest So Wealthy? An Empirical-Quantitative Investigation of Lifecycle Wealth Dynamics"
Håkon Tretvoll, SSB: "Regional Asset Allocation in the GPFG"

16 Jun: Hans Holter, UiO: "Taxation and Entrepreneurship in the United States"

2 Jun: Helene Onshuus, UiO: "Divorcing into wealth?"

20 May: Yikai Wang, University of Essex: "Worker Productivity during Lockdown and Working from Home: Evidence from Self-Reports"

22 Apr: Kasper Kragh-Sørensen, UiO: "Optimal Property Taxation" 

8 Apr: Vegard Nygaard, Houston: "Optimal allocation of resources among heterogeneous individuals with an application to the COVID-19 stimulus checks"

25 Mar: Martin Schmalz, Oxford: "Financing Payouts"

11 Mar: Even Soltvedt Hvinden, BI: "OPEC's crude game"

25 Feb: Iván Alfaro, BI: "The Finance Uncertainty Multiplier"

11 Feb: Kjetil Storesletten, UiO “From Imitation to Innovation: Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?”

14 Jan: Manudeep Bhuller, UiO: "The Internet, Search Frictions and Aggregate Unemployment"

2020

22 Dec:  Lan Lan, UiO: "Mergers and Acquisitions in Production Network"

8 Dec:  Drago Bergholt, Norges Bank: "The Death and Resurrection of the US Phillips Curve"10 Mar: Yicheng Wang, UiO, "Capitalist Human Capital" 

24 Nov: Kjersti Næss Torstensen, Norges Bank: "Om kortbruk fra stor norsk bank"

10 Nov: Jósef Sigurðsson, NHH: "Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland"

13 Oct: Ester Faia, Goethe University: “Confirmation Bias in Information Selection and Processing: Survey Evidence from the Pandemic”

8 Sep:  Ruslana Datsenko (UiO): "How much misallocation can price stickiness account for?"

9 June: Knut-Eric Joslin, Kristiania University College: "Dispersion over the Business Cycle: Productivity versus Demand", and Eric Nævdal, Frisch Centre: "The SIR model and shadow prices on testing and social distance"

12 May: Knut Anton Mork, BI: "Resource rent extraction in the Norwegian non-oil economy", and Ragnar Juelsrud, Norges Bank: “Mortgage regulation and financial vulnerability – Some preliminary results” 

21 April: Johannes Fleck, EUI: "State Tax Policies and the Household Response to Changes in Federal Spending" and Espen R. Moen, BI: Modelling contacts and transitions in the SIR epidemics model

11 Feb: Chris Carroll, Johns Hopkins University: "Dissecting Saving Dynamics"

2019

10 Dec at Norges Bank: Alfonso Irarrazabal, BI: "Optimal Asset Allocation for Commodity Sovereign Wealth Funds " and Sigurd Mølster Galaasen, Norges Bank: "Granular credit risk "

12 Nov at BI: Thomas Størdal Gundersen, BI "Oil Price Elasticities: Evidence from across the U.S." and Gisle J Natvik, BI: "The Impossibility of Efficiency under Competitive Markets, Free Entry, and Democracy"

22 Oct at SSB: Martin Blomhoff Holm, UiO "Monetary Policy under Demographic Transitions" and Olav Syrstad, Norges Bank: Does Covered Interest Rate Parity hold in bond markets?

10 Sept at UiO: Torfinn Harding, NHH: "Tax neutrality, entry and discoveries: Evidence from oil drilling in the North Sea" and Sergio Ocampo, UiO: "A task-based theory of occupations"

11 Jun at OBS: Costas Meghir, Yale University:  "Earnings Dynamics and Firm-Level Shocks"

14 May at BI: Espen Henriksen, BI: "Portfolio choice and non-tradable assets" and Alessia Russo, BI: "Sustainable Intergenerational Insurance" 

9 Apr at SSB: Håkon Tretvoll, SSB: "Trade in Commodities and Business Cycle Volatility" og Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Norges Bank: "How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching "

12 Mar at UiO: Fabrizio Zilibotti, Yale: "Business Cycle during Structural Change: Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective"

12 Feb at OBS: Martin Blomhoff Holm, UiO: "Housing Wealth in Norway, 1993 – 2015" 

2018

11 Dec at BI: Lan Lan, UiO: Understanding the Saving Behavior: Intergenerational Transfer and Housing and Espen Moen, BI: "Competitive or Random Search?" 

13 Nov at SSB: Thomas von Brasch, SSB: "Produvitity growth, firm turnover and new varieties" and Drago Bergholt, Norges Bank: "The Decline of the Labor Share: New Empirical Evidence"

9 Oct at OBS: Yikai Wang, UiO: "Search Frictions and Wage Dispersion" and Simon Galle, BI: "Slicing the Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade"

11 Sept at Norges Bank: Kjetil Storesletten, UiO: "Optimal age-dependent taxation" and Knut Are Aastveit, Norges Bank: "Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy in Regional Housing Markets”

2017

30 May at OBS Hans Holter, UiO: "The Distribution of Income Risk: Evidence from Norwegian Registry Data"

24 April at OBS Paul Klein, Stockholm University: Making a Miracle: Ireland 1980–2005

3 April at OBS Marcus Hagedorn, UiO: An Equilibrium Theory of Determinate Nominal Exchange Rates, Current Accounts and Asset Flows

2016

21 November at OBS Kurt Mitman, IIES: The Fiscal Multiplier

6 June at BI Richard Rogerson, Princenton: Hours, Occupations and the Gender Wage Gap

11 April at OBS Mike Elsby, Edinburgh: Labor Market Frictions and Aggregate Employment

2015

30 Nov at OBS Victor Rios Rull, Minnesota: Financial Frictions, Asset Prices, and the Great Recession

20 Oct at OBS Klaus Adam, University of Mannheim: Can a Financial Transaction Tax Prevent Stock Price Booms?

16 April at OBS Michael Carlsson, Uppsala: Selection Effects in Producer-Price Setting