Academic Interests
International political economy and public policy. Interests, ideas and institutions in macroeconomic policymaking, especially central banking and the interaction between monetary policy and other policy areas.
Background and PhD project
Ingrid Hjertaker is a political scientist and a PhD candidate and teacher at Inland School of Business and Social Research, and a visiting researcher at ARENA from June to September 2024.
Her dissertation project is on the changing power of central banks post-2008, with a special focus on the European Central Bank and its relationship with the Federal Reserve.
Prior to going into academia, Ingrid worked in the NGO-sector as a policy advisor on issues of global taxation, corporate transparency and illicit financial flows.
Select publications
Ingrid Hjertaker & Bent Sofus Tranøy (2024) «Arbitrariness and technocracy – The European Central Bank through multiple crises”, pp 113-133 in John Erik Fossum and Jozef Bátora (eds.) Differentiation and Dominance in Europe’s Poly-Crises. Routledge [book chapter]
Ingrid Hjertaker (2023) «Om pengesystemet som demokratisk problem», Agora, 40 (2-3), pp 33-55. Available at https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/agora.41.2-3.3.
Ingrid Hjertaker & Bent Sofus Tranøy (2022) “Did they know what they were doing? The Euro-crisis as a policy fiasco”, Comparative European Politics, 20, 770-788.
Ingrid Hjertaker & Bent Sofus Tranøy (2022) “The Dollar as a Mutual Problem: New Transatlantic Interdependence in Finance”, Politics & Governance, 10 (2): 198-207.
Ingrid Hjertaker & Bent Sofus Tranøy (2021) «The ECB – Unchecked transgressions and formal extensions”, in M. Riddervold og J. Trondal (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of EU crises. London: Palgrave. [book chapter]
Bent Sofus Tranøy, Mary Ann Stamsø & Ingrid Hjertaker (2020) «Equality as a driver of inequality. Universalistic welfare, generalized creditworthiness and financialised housing markets”, West European Politics, Vol. 33, No.2, pp. 390-411.