Program for the 45th Meeting of the Norwegian Association for Economists

Monday 8 January

08.30 Registration, Foyer

09.00 Welcome by Rector Svein Stølen, Auditorium 1

09.15 Plenary session: Martin B Holm (UiO): Inflation, Auditorium 1

10.15 Coffee

10.30 Contributed Sessions I

12.00 Lunch, Frederikke eatery

13.00 Contributed Sessions II

14.30 Coffee 

14.45 Invited Sessions

16.45 Adjourn

18.30 Conference dinner at Telegrafen (map), entrance from Prinsens gate

Tuesday 9 January

09.00 Plenary session Marte Strøm (ISF): Goldin’s Nobel prize, Auditorium 1

10.00 Coffee

10.15 Contributed Sessions III

12.15 Lunch, Frederikke eatery

13.15 Contributed Sessions IV

14.45 Coffee

15.00 Plenary session: Alexander Cappelen (NHH): Social preferences across the world, Auditorium 1

16.00 Adjourn

Contributed Sessions

Contributed Sessions I: Monday 10.30 – 12.00

• Macroeconomics I, Auditorium 1

• Environmental economics, Auditorium 2

• Families and labour supply, Stort møterom 

• Political economy, Undervisningsrom 1

• Development economics, Undervisningsrom 2

• Aqua- and agriculture, Undervisningsrom 3

Contributed Sessions II, Monday 13.00 – 14.30

• Immigration and inequality, Auditorium 1

• Climate economics, Auditorium 2

• Inflation, and central banks, Stort møterom

• Empirical labor economics, Undervisningsrom 1

• Financial economics I, Undervisningsrom 2

• Global tax evasion and The Atlas of the Offshore World, Undervisningsrom 3 

Contributed Sessions III, Tuesday 10.15 – 12.15

• Behavioral economics, Auditorium 2

• Health economics, Stort møterom 

• Public economics, Undervisningsrom 1

• Macro labor economics, Undervisningsrom 2

• Housing economics, Undervisningsrom 3

Contributed Sessions IV, Tuesday 13.15 – 14.45

• Macroeconomics II, Auditorium 2

• Financial economics II, Stort møterom 

• Methods, Undervisningsrom 1

• Wages and labour costs, Undervisningsrom 2

• Fisheries, Undervisningsrom 3

Contributed Papers 

The last presenter is the chair in each session.

30 minutes per presentation including discussion.

Contributed Sessions I
Monday 10.30 – 12.00

Macroeconomics I, Auditorium 1

Amund Hanson Kordt (University of Oslo): Fiscal spending multipliers: Evidence from Norway

Tim Dominik Maurer (NHH): Population Aging, Public Finances, and Alternatives for Retirement Reform

Knut-Eric Joslin (Kristiania University College): Utilization and price setting

Environmental economics, Auditorium 2

Magnus Aagaard Skeie (University of Agder): Do relative environmental measures increase evalua-bility in contingent valuation? An application to marine plastic waste clean-up

Martin Ørbeck (NMBU): Stated  preferences in tumultuous times:   Investigating environmental preferences over a five-year period controlling for Covid-19

Kine Josefine Aurland-Bredesen (NMBU): Social acceptance and the dynamic evolution of demand for CO2 storage

Families and labor supply, Stort møterom 

Karen Evelyn Hauge (Frisch Center): Offering scholarships to adult skilled workers: Evidence from a field experiment

Sigurd Mølster Galaasen (Norges Bank): Spousal Spillovers in the Labor Market: A Structural Assessment

Astrid Kunze (NHH): Expansions in Paid Parental Leave and Mothers’ Economic Progress

Political economy, Undervisningsrom 1

Christine Bangum (BI): Intra-Party Power Sharing: Theory and Evidence from Norway

Jon Fiva (BI): Sick of politics?

Colin Green (NTNU): Political Donations and the Market for Honours

Development economics, Undervisningsrom 2

Marianne Moreria-Godoy (OsloMet): The Effects of Reduced Conflict on Children's Education and Labor: Evidence from Colombia

Balasurya Sivakumar (OsloMet): The Effect of Natural Resource Shocks on Violence, Crime, and Drug Cartels Presence in Mexico

Halvor Mehlum (University of Oslo): Land Redistribution as Vote Buying

Aqua- and agriculture, Undervisningsrom 3

Arne Melchior (NUPI): Measuring the impact of EU tariffs and tariff quotas for seafood

Øyvind Hoveid (NIBIO): How high should the income of Norwegian farmers be?

Klaus Mittenzwei (Ruralis): Forslag til nye kostråd er god samfunnsøkonomi

Contributed Sessions II
Monday 13.00 – 14.30

Immigration and inequality, Auditorium 1

Anna Godøy (Frisch Center): Intergenerational earnings mobility of first-generation Scandinavians

Francesco Furlanetto (Norges Bank): Immigration and inequality: new macroeconomic evidence

Arne Wiig (Chr Michelsen Institute): Effects of information about irregular migration on transit community attitudes towards migrants

Climate economics, Auditorium 2

Maren Hedne (University of Oslo): Is technology adoption skill-biased? The case of green technological change

Stefano Ninfole (NMBU): Competition For Carbon Storage

Mads Greaker (OsloMet): International cooperation on the climate: The case for a green innovation club

Inflation and central banks, Stort møterom

Pål Ulvedal (Nord University): What drives the recent surge in inflation? The historical decomposition roller coaster.

Kristine Aunvåg Matsen (Norges Bank): The role of global supply shocks in the recent inflation surge

Erika Berle (University of Stavanger): Shaping Market Expectations: The Impact of Central Bank Communication on Yield Curve Forecasting

Empirical labor economics, Undervisningsrom 1

Sonja Kovacevic (University of Oslo): It's All About What You Learn

Harald Dale-Olsen (Institute for Social Research): Monopsony, short business cycles and the gender wage gap

Øystein Hernæs (Frisch Center): Performance Pay for Private Program Providers and Impact on Participants: A Field Experiment on Employment Service Financing

Financial economics I, Undervisningsrom 2

Bernt Arne Ødegaard (University of Stavanger): Is investment capital cheaper for green firms? Evidence from Euronext -- Oslo

Johann Reindl (OsloMet): Endogenous Limits to Arbitrage and Price Informativeness

Siri Valseth (OsloMet): Do Norges Bank's foreign exchange transactions on behalf of the "Oil fund" influence the NOK exchange rate?

Global tax evasion and The Atlas of the Offshore World, Undervisningsrom 3
Annette Alstadsæter (NMBU): How do you go from idea to realization of a big project? Introduction of the online database The Atlas of the Offshore World

Andreas Økland (NMBU): Towards a Global Real Estate Atlas: Offshore Real Estate in Selected Areas and Cities.

Johannes Scheuerer (NMBU): Pennies from Haven: Wages and Profit Shifting.

Contributed Sessions III
Tuesday 10.15 – 12.15

Behavioral economics, Auditorium 2

Sepehr Cyrusian (NTNU): What Can We Learn About Workers’ Well-being From Social Media? Evidence from 5.8 Million Tweets

Ole Christian Wasenden (Telenor): Information Avoidance and Privacy — the role of Entertaining Content

Åshild Johnsen (OsloMet): Information Nudging and Sexual Harassment Attitudes

Kjell Arne Brekke (University of Oslo): Moral Responsibility as a Driver of Polarization

Health economics, Stort møterom

Sara Abrahamsson (Norwegian Institute of Public Health): Advanced maternal age, prenatal care and health outcomes of mother and child

Eduardo Alberto Ramirez Lizardi (University of Oslo): Parental health and caregiving decisions in the family:  The effects of health shocks on adult children’s income

Henning Øien (University of Oslo): Out-of-pocket prices and rationing of care services: Evidence from price discontinuities

Bjørn-Atle Reme (Norwegian Institute of Public Health): Parental death during childhood and NEET-status as young adult

Public economics, Undervisningsrom 1

Max-Emil King (BI): The effect of meeting times on political selection and representation

Roberto Iacono (NTNU): Behavioral responses to wealth taxation: evidence from a Norwegian reform

Lars-Erik Borge (NTNU): Why do local governments favor short-term financing?

Pål Wangsness (TØI): The curious case of road pricing reform in Norway

Macro labor economics, Undervisningsrom 2

Magnus Åstebøl (Norges Bank): Unveiling Heterogeneity in Employment Trends: Insights from Norwegian Micro-data

Jonna Olsson (NHH): Who should work how much?

Gunnar Bårdsen (NTNU): US wage-price dynamics, before, during and after COVID-19, through the lens of an empirical econometric model

Drago Bergholt (Norges Bank): The Dynamics of the Labor Share in Europe

Housing economics, Undervisningsrom 3

Erlend Eide Bø (SSB): Preempting housing auctions

Espen Moen (BI): Transaction Sequencing and House Price Pressures

Guri Natalie Jordbakke (University of Oslo): How parking regulation affects the consumption of private cars – identification through a natural experiment

Erling Røed Larsen (OsloMet): Behavioral patterns in housing auctions:  Evidence from one million bids

Contributed Sessions IV
Tuesday 13.15 – 14.45

Macroeconomics II, Auditorium 2

Karin Kinnerud (BI): The Inflation Tilt Effect

Runxi Niu (NHH): Firm growth, debt and recession

Financial economics II, Stort møterom

Sondre Elstad (University of Oslo): Optimal investment in Norwegian assets when the effect of the oil price on Norwegian assets is ambiguous

Richard Foltyn (NHH): Experience-based Learning, Stock Market Participation and Portfolio Choice

Methods, Undervisningsrom 1

Trygve Leithe Svalheim (Menon Economics): KI: Betydning for arbeidsstyrken. En analyse av potensialet for kunstig intelligens-drevet effektivisering i norsk næringsliv

Eric Nævdal (Høgskulen på Vestlandet): On the optimality of recklessness in the face of adversity

Genaro Sucarrat (BI): Robust Estimation and Inference for Time-Varying Unconditional Volatility

Wages and labour costs, Undervisningsrom 2

Mirjam Wentzel (Institute for Social Research): Economic Downturns, Adjustment Costs and External Labor Utilization

Maria Hoen (Institute for Social Research): Closing the temp-worker pay gap? The effect of equal pay legslation on wages

Erling Barth (Institute for Social Research): Rent Sharing and Temporary Workers

Fisheries, Undervisningsrom 3

Alizadeh Ashrafi (NIBIO): The effect of quota portfolio composition on optimal harvest strategy and profitability in a multi-species fishery

Helge Berglann (NIBIO): Individual Transferable Quotas: the role of Flexibility and Market power

Sturla Kvamsdal (SNF): Seasonality and growth in the generalized fishery model