2022
NoWeDe Workshop: The Welfare State - Past and Present Developments.
Time and place: Oct. 20, 2022 10:30 AM – 7:00 PM, Kulturhuset - Youngs gate 6, 0181 Oslo
The Nordic Welfare Developments (NoWeDe) project has aimed at studying how the welfare state emerged historically in the Nordic context and of its possible emergence in developing countries in Africa and Latin America today. This workshop marks the end of the project, and results in the fields of history, political science, and economics will be presented.
Program
- 10:45 Peter Sandholt Jensen: Institutions and industrialization: Evidence from the Free City of Eskilstuna
- 11:30 Haakon Gjerløw: Retrospective voting in hybrid regimes: A Pre-analysis plan
- 13:15 Sirianne Dahlum: Social norms and democratic support: Experimental evidence from Norway
- 14:00 Kalle Moene: Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining
- 15:00 Jan-Eivind Myhre: The making of the Norwegian model. Norway 1814-1914
- 15:45 Carl-Henrik Knudsen: Education Policies and Systems across Modern History: A Global Dataset
- 17:00 Tore Wig: Did Industrialization Cause Democratization? Quasi-experimental evidence from the industrial revolution in Norway
- 17:30 Andreas Kotsadam: Effects of speedschools in Niger
- 18:00 Anders Kjelsrud: Strikes
- 18:30 Jo Thori Lind: The NoWeDe data collection
2018
Workshop "Policies against tropical deforestation"
Time and place: June 13, 2018 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Eilert Sundts hus, Aud 5
NHH and UiO are organizing a workshop on policies against tropical deforestation.
Organizer: Bård Harstad (UiO) and Torfinn Harding (NHH)
Program
- 09:00-09:15 WELCOME BY BÅRD HARSTAD AND TORFINN HARDING
- 09:15-10:00 NICFI ten years: Results and challenges Per Fredrik Ilsaas Pharo, KLD 11:15-12:00 Econonomic theory and REDD Bård Harstad, UiO
- 12:00-13:15 LUNCH 13:15-14:00 Deforestation and regrowth across small and large properties in Brazil Torfinn Harding, NHH A study of Bolsa Verde Liana Anderson, INPE and Cemaden
- 14:15-15:00 On the way forward - what research is needed? Lars Andreas Lunde, Norad
- 15:00-16:00 DISCUSSION
2017
Workshop: Environmental economics and beyond - Michael Hoel @ 70
Time and place: Apr. 6, 2017 11:00 AM – 5:45 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
The Department of Economics is organizing a workshop in honor of Michael Hoel's 70th anniversary and his long-standing scientific contributions and services to the University of Oslo.
Program
- 11:15 – 12:00 Kalle Moene, University of Oslo: ''Sharing the gains --- and the gains of sharing''
- 12:15 – 13.00 Tor Iversen, University of Oslo: "Unintended effects of health screening" (with Eline Aas)
- 14:00 – 14:45 Aart de Zeeuw, Tilburg University: “Climate Tipping and Economic Growth: Precautionary Capital and the Price of Carbon” (with Frederick van der Ploeg)
- 15:00 – 15:45 Cathrine Hagem, Statistics Norway: “Supply- versus Demand-Side Policies in the Presence of Carbon Leakage and the Green Paradox” (with Halvor Briseid Storrøsten)
- 16:00 – 16:45 Scott Barrett, Columbia University: "Coercive Trade Agreements for Supplying Global Public Goods" (with Astrid Dannenberg)
- 17:00 – 17:45 Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg: “Do Markets Trump Politics? Evidence from Fossil Market Reactions to the Paris Agreement and the US Election” (with Samson Mukanjari)
2016
Workshop for Asbjørn Rødseth: Macroeconomics and Policymaking
Time and place: May 18, 2016 2:15 PM – 6:00 PM, Aud. 2, Georg Sverdrups hus
The workshop is organized to celebrate professor Rødseth’s scientific contributions, scholarship and long term services to the University of Oslo and to the Norwegian society in general. The workshop is open for all interested.
Program
- 14.15-15 Key note: Seppo Honkapohja, Bank of Finland Persistent slowdowns, expectations and macroeconomic policy.
- 15.15-16.30 Policy
Hilde Bjørnland, BI: Do central banks respond timely?
Ragnar Torvik, NTNU: Oil prices and macroeconomic policy - 16.45 – 18 History
Ragnar Nymoen, UiO: Norwegian wage formation since independence
Svein Gjedrem, NHH: The Norwegian economic history over the last 50 years - in short.
International Conference on Real Options
Time and place: June 15, 2016 8:45 AM – June 16, 2016 12:45 PM, Georg Sverdups hus, University of Oslo.
The Department of Economics is co-organizer of the 20th Annual Conference on Real Options.
Theory and Environment Workshop
Time and place: Mar. 3, 2016 12:00 PM – Mar. 4, 2016 3:00 PM, Eilert Sundts hus
The goals of the workshop are to:
1) motivate environmental economists to employ the best and most recent methods available in economic theory;
2) motivate economic theorists to develop models that provide insight on environmental problems.
To achieve these two goals, five papers will be presented by environmental economists and discussed by theorists, and five papers will be presented by economic theorists and discussed by environmental economists.
The workshop is funded by the ERC Starting Grant of Bård Harstad
(GA n°283236, the European Research Council under the EU's 7th Framework Programme).
Program
Thursday March 3rd
- 12:00-13:00 Welfare Division in the Commons Presenter: Stefan Ambec (Toulouse) Discussant: Francis Bloch (Paris)
- 13:00-14:00 Green Technology and Bandits [link] Presenter: Discussant: Katinka Holtsmark (Oslo) Juuso Valimaki (Aalto)
- 14:15-15:15 Group Decision Making Presenter: Philippe Jehiel (Paris) with Olivier Compte Discussant: Jean-Marc Bourgeon (INRA and Ecole Polytechnique)
- 15:30-16:30 Cake Eating with Private Information [link] Presenter: Discussant: Reyer Gerlagh (Tilburg) with Matti Liski Steven Matthews (Pennsylvania)
- 16:45-17:45 Learning to Disagree in a Game of Experimentation Presenter: Johannes Horner (Yale) with Alessandro Bonatti Discussant: Matti Liski (Aalto)
Friday March 4th.
- 09:00-10:00 Dynamic Conservation Contracts
Presenter: Discussant: Bård Harstad (Oslo) with Nils Chr. Framstad Dilip Abreu (Princeton) - 10:15-11:15 Reputation Building under Uncertain Monitoring
Presenter: Discussant: Joyee Deb (Yale) with Yuhta Ishii Mirabelle Muuls (IC London/ LSE) - 11:15-12:15 Collective Intertemporal Choice: Time Consistency vs. Time Invariance Presenter: Discussant: Antony Millner (LSE) with Geoffrey Heal Francis Dennig (Yale-NUS College)
- 12:45-13:45 The Optimal Structure of Conservation Agreements and Monitoring Presenter: Discussant: Ted Groves (UC San Diego) et al. Peter N Sørensen (Copenhagen)
- 14:00-15:00 Dynamic Oligopoly with Incomplete Information
Presenter: Discussant: Juuso Toikka (MIT) with Alessandro Bonatti and Gonzalo Cisternas Till Requate (Kiel) - 15:15-16:30 General discussion
2015
Nordic Workshop on Register Data and Economic Modeling
Time and place: June 5, 2015 11:00 AM – June 6, 2015 2:10 PM, Auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrups hus, Blindern, University of Oslo.
This workshop brings together international economists from across Scandinavia.
The organizer is professor Espen Moen from the University of Oslo. It is organized in cooperation with BI Norwegian Business School.
Program
Friday, June 5
- 11.00-11.40 Jonas Maibom Pedersen: Assessing welfare effects of ALMPs: combining structural and experimental methods
- 11.40-12.20 Kenneth Lykke Sørensen: Heterogenous Effects on Earnings from an Early Effort in Labor Market Programs
- 13.20-14.00 Erling Barth: R&D Spillovers and Scientist and engineer labor mobility (with Jamec C Davis, Richard Freeman, Gerald Marschke and Andrew Wang)
- 14.00-14.40 Plamen Nenov: Productivity spillovers through worker flows (with Tom-Reiel Heggedal and Espen Moen)
- 15.00-15.40 Jesper Bagger: Hiring, Separations, Vacancies and Productivity
- 15.40-16.20 Andreas Westermark: Endogenous Separations, Wage Rigidities and Employment Volatility (with Mikael Carlsson)
- 16.40-17.20 Lena Hensvik: When Connections Become Hires: Firm-level Responses to Supply Shocks within their Workers’ Social Networks (with Marcus Eliason, Francis Kramarz and Oskar Nordström Skans)
- 17.2018.00 Henning Bunzel: New spell data
Saturday, June 6
- 09.00-09.40 Yana Gallen: The Gender Productivity Gap
- 09.40-10.20 Rune Vammen Lesner: Testing for Statistical Discrimination and Gender Differences in Employer Learning
- 10.30-11.10 Christian Brinch: Excess Early Retirement: Evidence from the Norwegian 2011 Pension Reform (with Ola L. Vestad and Josef Zweimueller)
- 11.10-11.50 Oskar Nordström Skans: Permanent Separations and Firm Performance: Evidence from Life after Death (with Francis Kramarz)
- 12.50-13.30 Esther Ann Nisja Bøler: Technology-skill complementarity at the firm level
- 13.30-14.10 Gregory Veramendi: Networks, Frictions and Price Dispersion (with Javier Donna and Pablo Schenone)
2014
ERWIT conference 2014
Time and place: June 4, 2014 8:30 AM – June 6, 2014 2:30 PM, Auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrups hus, Blindern, University of Oslo
The workshop is part of the activities of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and is the most prestigious conference in International Trade.
ERWIT is an annual workshop that brings together international economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. The workshop disseminates the findings of recent research on international trade, and presentations often involve exploratory rather than finished papers. It provides a unique opportunity to discuss trade-related research in a relaxed atmosphere. Another important aim of ERWIT is to provide young researchers with the opportunity to meet and discuss their work with senior economists.
This year's organizers are Diego Puga (CEMFI, Madrid and CEPR), Simon Evenett (University of St. Gallen and CEPR), and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe (University of Oslo and CEPR).
Nordic Workshop in Industrial Organization
Time and place: June 2, 2014 9:00 AM – June 3, 2014 3:30 PM, Rådssalen, Lucy Smiths hus, Blindern, University of Oslo
NORIO IX is the ninth Nordic workshop focusing on Industrial Organization. The workshop aims to stimulate cooperation and exchange of knowledge in the field of industrial organization.
Program
Day 1 – Monday 2 June
- 09:15-09:30 Welcome
Chair Monday morning: Tore Nilssen - 09:30-11:30 Session 1 – Contracts
«Innovation and Licensing with Probabilistic Enforcement» - Eirik G. Kristiansen (Norwegian School of Economics)
Discussant: Tapas Kundu (University of Tromsø)
«Location and Ownership of Public Goods» - Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka (University of Bristol)
Discussant: Johan Stennek (Gothenburg University)
«International Trade in Bilateral Oligopoly» - Johan Stennek (Gothenburg University)
Discussant: Edward Webb (University of Copenhagen) - 11:50-12:50 Keynote lecture: «We're Number 1: Price Wars for Market Share Leadership» - Luis Cabral (New York University)
- 13:50-15:10 Session 2 – Auctions and procurement
«Price Regulations in a Multi-Unit Uniform Price Auction» - Anette Boom (Copenhagen Business School)
Discussant: Nils-Henrik von der Fehr (University of Oslo)
«SME Participation and Success in Public Procurement» - Johan Stake (Södertörn University)
Discussant: Eirik G Kristiansen (Norwegian School of Economics) - 15:30-17:30 Session 3 – Empirical Studies
«Dispersion in Retail Prices» - Øyvind Aas (Norwegian Business School)
Discussant: Magnus Söderberg (Mines ParisTech)
«Compliance to Pharmaceutical Substitution Rules and Pharmaceutical Prices in Sweden» - Mats Bergman (Södertörn University)
Anette Boom (Copenhagen Business School)
«The Effect of Future Price Expectations on Customers’ Willingness to Make Sunk Investments in Reliance on Monopoly Service» - Magnus Söderberg (Mines ParisTech)
Discussant: Johan Stake (Södertörn University)
Day 2: Tuesday 3 June
Chair Tuesday morning: Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr
- 09:30-10:50 Session 4 – Mixed duopoly
«Media Plurality: Private versus Mixed Duopolies» - Armando J Garcia Pires (Norwegian School of Economics)
Discussant: Mats Bergman (Södertörn University)
«Piracy in Commercial versus Open-Source Software Competition» - Arne R Gramstad (University of Oslo)
Øystein Foros (Norwegian School of Economics) - 11:10-12:30 Session 5 – Behavioural and experimental IO
«Perception and Quality Choice in Vertically Differentiated Markets» - Edward Webb (University of Copenhagen)
Discussant: Espen R Moen (Norwegian Business School)
«Strategic Disclosure of Demand Information by Duopolists: Theory and Experiment» - Jos Jansen (Aarhus University)
Discussant: Armando J Garcia Pires (Norwegian School of Economics)
Chair Tuesday afternoon: Eirik G. Kristiansen
- 13:30-15:30 Session 6 – Vertical relations
«Exclusive Dealing in Decentralized Markets» - Espen R Moen (Norwegian Business School)
Discussant: Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka (University of Bristol)
«Turning the Page on Business Formats for Digital Platforms: Does the Agency Model Soften Competition?» - Øystein Foros (Norwegian School of Economics)
Discussant: Jos Jansen (Aarhus University)
«Competition, Integration and Innovation» - Tapas Kundu (University of Tromsø)
Discussant: Øyvind Aas (Norwegian Business School)
2012
International Seminar on Macroeconomics
Time and place: June 15, 2012 – June 16, 2012
International Seminar on Macroeconomics is an annual conference arranged by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). It has taken place in various European countries since 1978, and this is the first time it is arranged in Norway. The participants are top American and European economists, in addition to a limited number of local participants.
The local arrangement committee consists of Steinar Holden (University of Oslo), Knut Anton Mork (Handelsbanken), Øistein Røisland (Norges Bank) and Kjetil Storesletten (University of Oslo).
Program
Friday, June 15
- 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:15 Olivier Jeanne, Johns Hopkins University and NBER: Capital Account Policies and the Real Exchange Rate Discussants:Â Javier Bianchi, University of Wisconsin and NBER Lars Svensson, Sveriges Riksbank and NBER
- 10:45 M. Ayhan Kose, IMF Hideaki Hirata, Hosei University Christopher Otrok, University of Missouri Marco Terrones, IMF Global House Price Fluctuations Discussants:Â Kirstin Hubrich, European Central Bank Leonardo Melosi, London Business School
- 12:30 David Papell, University of Houston Tanya Molodtsova, Emory University Taylor Rule Exchange Rate Forecasting During the Financial Crisis Discussants:Â Michael McCracken, Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis Barbara Rossi, Duke University
- 14:45 Nicolas Berman, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Jose de Sousa, Paris-Sud 11 University Philippe Martin, Sciences Po, Paris Thierry Mayer, Sciences Po, Paris Time to Ship during Financial Crises Discussants:Â Helene Rey, London Business School and NBER Cedric Tille, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies
- 16:15 Christophe Chamley, Paris School of Economics Brian Pinto, World Bank Official Bailouts of Sovereigns: Seniority, Catalytic Effects and Insolvency Discussants:Â Herakles Polemarchakis, University of Warwick Gisle Natvik, Norges Bank
June 16
- 9:00 Antonella Trigari, IGIER, Bocconi University Luca Sala, IGIER, Bocconi University Ulf Saderstrom, Sveriges Riksbank Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Great Recession: Cross Country Evidence Discussants:Â Fabrizio Perri, IGIER, Bocconi University and NBER Alejandro Justiniano, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- 10:30 Luca Guerrieri, Federal Reserve Board Matteo Iacoviello, Federal Reserve Board Raoul Minetti, Michigan State University Banks, Sovereign Debt and the International Transmission of Business Cycles Discussants:Â Knut Anton Mork, Handelsbanken Marius Jurgilas, Norges Bank
- 11:45 Alessandra Fogli, University of Minnesota Enoch Hill, University of Minnesota Fabrizio Perri, IGIER, Bocconi University and NBER The Geography of the Great Recession Discussants:Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, University of Oslo Jonas Fisher, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
6th Nordic Summer Symposium in Macroeconomics
Time and place: Aug. 8, 2012 – Aug. 11, 2012,Strömstad, Sweden
This symposium is an academic research conference in the area of macroeconomics. It is primarily aimed at promoting frontier contributions by junior macroeconomic researchers. A connection to the Nordic countries is an advantage but not a prerequisite. The symposium allows the junior researchers to present and discuss their research and to receive advice and constructive criticism from more senior macroeconomic scholars.
Keynote Speaker: Ricardo Reis, Columbia University
Organizing committee
Kjetil Storesletten, Dept. of Economics & ESOP, University of Oslo
John Hassler, IIES, Stockholm University
Per Krusell, IIES, Stockholm University
Niku Määttänen, Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
Morten O. Ravn, University College London
Jon Steinsson, Columbia University
Johannes Elgvin, Dept. of Economics & ESOP, University of Oslo
Siril Kvam, Dept. of Economics & ESOP, University of Oslo (administration)
2010
Economic forecasting: alternative and complementary approaches
Time and place: May 31-June1, 2010, Library for Humanities and Social Sciences, Georg Sverdrups Hus, Blindern Campus
The international financial crisis and the recession that followed have revitalized the debate about economics and the value added of discipline models as an aid to economic policy and for forecasting. Against this backdrop we arrange a workshop on model based forecasting. There will be contributions on theory, specification, methodology, communication of forecasts in a policy context, evaluation issues, as well as empirical examples. Among the model topics we would like to cover specifically are: Expectations, DSGE models, factor models, VAR models and multi equation econometric models with EqCM specifications and breaks.
Program
Monday, 31 May
9:00-10:45
- George Evans: Does Ricardian equivalence hold when expectations are not rational?
- Rafael Wouters: Estimating a medium-scale DSGE model with expectations based on small forecasting models.
11:15-13:00
- Mike Clements: Real-time forecasting of inflation and output growth in the presence of data revisions.
- Tom Engsted: Testing for rational bubbles in a co-explosive vector-autoregression
14.15-16:00
- Paolo Giordani:Forecasting macroeconomic time series with locally adaptive signal extraction.
- Nico Keilman: On future household structure.
16:30-18:30
- Massimiliano Marcellino:Empirical simultaneous confidence regions for path-forecasts
- Knut Are Aastveit: Nowcasting Norwegian GDP with factor models.
- Gunnar Bårdsen: Some examples of forecast robustness of macroeconometric models
Tuesday, 1 June
9:00-10:45
- Anders Rygh Swensen: A generalization of the Granger-Johansen theorem with application to bootstrapping.
- Luca Fanelli: Estimation of quasi-rational DSGE monetary models.
11:15-13:00
- Ida-Wolden Bache: Monetary policy analysis in practice: A conditional forecasting approach
- Jurgen Doornik: Econometric model selection with more variables than observations.
14.00-16:00
- Anindya Banerjee: The role of cointegration in forecasting in large datasets.
- Helmut Lütkepohl: Structural vector autoregressions with Markov Switching: Combining conventional with statistical identification of shocks.
2008
The Oslo Conference on Monetary Ploicy and the Labor Market
Time and place: June 13-14, 2008, University of Oslo
The last two decades have seen the productive convergence of how academics, on the one hand, and policymakers, on the other, think about monetary policy. Macroeconomic policies in general, and monetary policy in particular, are being increasingly informed by macroeconomic models that not only address the Lucas critique appropriately, but also take into consideration a wider range of frictions, for instance in the market for labor.
In light of these developments, the Norwegian School of Management and the University of Oslo are organizing this year’s Oslo workshop on Monetary Policy in the hope of bringing together practitioners and researchers from central banks and academia. The topic of this year’s workshop is Monetary Policy and the Labor Market. Although we invite any contributions within this research field, we are in particular interested in papers that address the following questions: How should information about the degree of real wage flexibility inform monetary policy? How can we think coherently about the relation between unemployment and inflation, and what are the consequences for monetary policy design? How should persistence in the effects of monetary policy and the possiblity of hysteresis in the labor market affect monetary policy?
The conference is funded by the Professorship in Macro and Monetary Policy Issues at the University of Oslo, and the Norwegian Financial Market Fund.