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Components of Uncertainty
(CAMP Working Paper Series;4/2017, Working paper, 2017)Uncertainty is acknowledged to be a source of economic fluctuations. But, does the type of uncertainty matter for the economy's response to an uncertainty shock? This paper offers a novel identfication strategy to ... -
Should Developing Countries Establish Petroleum Funds?
(CAMP Working Paper Series;3/2017, Working paper, 2017)Many natural-resource-abundant countries have established petroleum funds as part of their strategy to manage their resource wealth. This paper examines reasons that such funds may be established, discusses how these funds ... -
Supply Flexibility in the Shale Patch: Evidence from North Dakota
(CAMP Working Paper Series;2/2017, Working paper, 2017)We analyse if output exibility in oil production depends on the extraction technology. In particular, we ask to what extent shale oil producers respond to price incentives by changing completion of new wells as well as oil ... -
Are Small-Scale SVARs Useful for Business Cycle Analysis? Revisiting Non-Fundamentalness
(CAMP Working Paper Series;2/2016, Working paper, 2016)Non-fundamentalness arises when observables do not contain enough information to recover the vector of structural shocks. Using Granger causality tests, the literature suggested that many small scale VAR models are ... -
Oil and Civil Conflict: On and Off (Shore)
(CAMP Working Paper Series;1/2017, Working paper, 2017)We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in ... -
Words are the new numbers: A newsy coincident index of business cycles
(CAMP Working Paper Series;4/2016, Working paper, 2016)In this paper I construct a daily business cycle index based on quarterly GDP and textual information contained in a daily business newspaper. The newspaper data is decomposed into time series representing newspaper topics ... -
Nowcasting using news topics Big Data versus big bank
(CAMP Working Paper Series;6/2016, Working paper, 2016)The agents in the economy use a plethora of high frequency information, including news media, to guide their actions and thereby shape aggregate economic fluctuations. Traditional nowcasting approches have to a relatively ... -
Implementing the Zero Lower Bound in an Estimated Regime-Switching DSGE Model
(CAMP Working Paper Series;3/2016, Working paper, 2016)The Zero Lower Bound (ZLB) on policy rates is one of the key monetary policy issues du jour. In this paper we investigate the problem of modelling and estimating the ZLB in a simple New Keynesian model with regime switches. ... -
Commodity Futures and Forecasting Commodity Currencies
(CAMP Working Paper Series;7/2016, Working paper, 2016)This paper analyzes the extent to which information in commodity futures markets is useful for out-of-sample forecasting of commodity currencies. In the earlier literature, commodity price changes are documented to be weak ... -
Mending the broken link: heterogeneous bank lending and monetary policy pass-through
(CAMP Working Paper Series;9/2016, Working paper, 2016)We analyze the pass-through of monetary policy measures to lending rates to fi rms and households in the euro area using a novel bank-level dataset. Banks characteristics such as the capital ratio, the exposure to sovereign ... -
Approximating time varying structural models with time invariant structures
(CAMP Working Paper Series;1/2016, Working paper, 2016)The paper studies how parameter variation affects the decision rules of a DSGE model and structural inference. We provide diagnostics to detect parameter variations and to ascertain whether they are exogenous or endogenous. ... -
Joint Prediction Bands for Macroeconomic Risk Management
(CAMP Working Paper Series;5/2016, Working paper, 2016)In this paper we address the issue of assessing and communicating the joint probabilities implied by density forecasts from multivariate time series models. We focus our attention in three areas. First, we investigate a ... -
Do central banks respond timely to developments in the global economy?
(CAMP Working Paper Series;8/2016, Working paper, 2016)Our analysis suggests; they do not! To arrive at this conclusion we construct a real-time data set of interest rate projections from central banks in three small open economies; New Zealand, Norway, and Sweden, and analyze ... -
Piketty's laws and logic
(CME Working Papers;7/2014, Working paper, 2014)Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a valuable contribution to the history of wealth and income distribution. But Piketty’s theory about wealth and income distribution as encapsulate in his laws ... -
Når forskjellene blir for store
(CME Working Papers;8/2014, Working paper, 2014)Forestillingen om at økonomisk vekst først ville føre til økende inntektsforskjeller og deretter minkende, holder ikke. Teknologiske fremskritt og tiltakende globalisering bidrar til større inntektsforskjeller. Utdanning ... -
Globalisering og det norske arbeidsmarkedet
(CME Working Papers;2/2015, Working paper, 2015)I de siste tiårene har framvoksende økonomier fått en langt større rolle i den internasjonale økonomien. Arbeidskraften i disse landene er blitt tilgjengelig for industrilandenes økonomier, dels ved arbeidsinnvandring, ... -
Foreign shocks
(CAMP Working Papers Series;11/2015, Working paper, 2015)How and to what extent are small open economies affected by international shocks? I develop and estimate a medium scale DSGE model that addresses both questions. The model incorporates i) international markets for firm-to-firm ... -
Mye vil ha mer
(CME Working Papers;1/2015, Working paper, 2015)Dette arbeidsnotatet setter sammen brevene fra fjorårets seks siste måneder: Kina er tjent med den valutapolitikken landet nå har. Kina trenger en gradvis liberalisering av det innenlandske kredittmarkedet. Denne ... -
Bank og pølsebod - Hva er forskjellen?
(CME Working Papers;5/2014, Working paper, 2014)Dette arbeidsnotatet setter sammen brevene fra årets seks første måneder: Forfengelighet og følelser Norge som verdens største investor Bank og pølsebod – Hva er forskjellen? Norge er et lite land På’n igjen i ... -
Nibor - intet mysterium
(CME Working Papers;6/2014, Working paper, 2014)Norges Bank hevder at dagens regelverk og praksis for kvotering av NIBOR ikke tilfredsstiller kravene til tillit og robusthet. Sentralbanken viser blant annet til kvoteringen av STIBOR og ønsker en ren kronerente basert på ...