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Paper on international nominal correlations
The materials you might be tested in at the final exam are the material covered in class and the required readings for each class which are listed in the lecture plan
You can pick up the term paper at the reception in 12th floor!
The next two (last) seminars are on May 9 ( 8:15am at Room 1220 Eilert Sundts Hus. Note the time and place! I remove the regular seminar on May 12 because of the National holiday!) and May 13(regular time and place).
Slides for Lecture 9, Lecture 10, Lecture 11, Lecture 12 and Lecture 13 have been uploaded.
Slides used in Lecture 8 have been uploaded
1-2 student scholarships are available for Master’s students at the Department of Economics who write their Master’s thesis within macro and monetary policy issues.
All students interested in macroeconomics and/or monetary policy are encouraged to apply.
The announcement can few found here
Slides for Lecture 5 and Lecture 7 have been uploaded.
- Class 7 will be moved from Fri March 7 to the seminar hours on Mon March 3rd and Tue March 4th.
- Next ordinary seminars are Mon March 10th and Tue March 11th.
Hege Marie Gjefsen, Tord Krogh, and Marie Norum Lerbak have written a nice, short paper where they document some key regularities of Norwegian business cycles in the period 1980-2006. The paper can be accessed here
The detailed lecture plan has been updated with readings for each of the last seven lectures.
The lecture with Harald Magnus Andreassen , chief economist at First Securities, will be Friday February 29.
If it is a Pareto improvement we would like to move the two seminar sessions to
- Mondays 10.15-12.00, and
- Mondays 14.16-16.00.
Please let us know at the lecture on Friday if neither of these times work for you.
Seminars start in Week 6, ie. Feb 4th and 5th.
Hyperlinks to the readings have been updated in the lecture plan
Material from today's class has been uploaded:
- Slides, version for web viewing
- Slides, version for print-out
- Annual data, Stata-code and instructions for how to run the Stata code can be found here
- For those who are interested, the paper "The Technological Role of Fiat Money" by Narayana Kocherlakota can be found here: http://minneapolisfed.org/research/QR/QR2231.pdf
Few pieces of practical information:
- First lecture is Friday January 25
- Espen Henriksen of UiO will teach the six first lectures, Harald Magnus Andreassen of First Securities will teach one lecture, and Øistein Røisland and Tommy Sveen of Norges Bank will teach the six last lecture.