Academic Interests
Quantitative macro, political economy, labor economics, risk sharing, asset pricing, immigration.
Background
- Professor at Department of Economics, University of Oslo 2012-
- Visiting Professor at IEW (University of Zurich), 2009-
- Professor at Department of Economics, University of Oslo 2003-2009
- Institute for International Economic Studies (Stockholm University), 1995-2003
- Ph.D. (Economics), GSIA/Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 1991-1995
- Siviløkonom, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norway, 1987-1991
- Mathematics studies (one year), Agder University College, Norway, 1986-1987
Appointments
- Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2012-
- Director and board member of the Review of Economic Studies 2003-
- Monetary Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2009-2012
- Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies, 2006-2010
- Research Fellow at Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
- Member of Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Op-ed columnist in Dagens Næringsliv, 2012-
- Op-ed columnist in Aftenposten,2005-2012
Awards
- Sun Yefang Award 2012, with Fabrizio Zilibotti and Zheng Song, for the article "Growing Like China" published in the American Economic Review 2011
- Advanced Grant from the European Research Council, 2013-2017, .The Macroeconomics of Inequality, Development and the Welfare State.( €2.1 million, 2013-2017)
- Co-applicant for Center of Excellence at Department of Economics at University of Oslo, awarded by the Norwegian Science Foundation (50 million NOK, 2007-2011)
- Awarded Outstanding Young Investigator grant ("Yngre, fremragende forskere") by the Norwegian Science Foundation (7 million NOK), 2005-2009
- Carl Mannerfeldt Fund Grant, January 1996 .December 2002
- Doctoral fellowships from Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, William Larimer Mellon Foundation, and the North European Management Institute, 1991-1995