Ragnar Nymoen
Professor of Economics
Teaching
In the spring term 2009 I teach the course ECON 5103 Advanced Econometrics, Panel data, together with Erik Biorn.Forecasts
- Forecasts for the Norwegian economy using Norwegian Aggregate Model (NAM). January 2010
- June 2009 forecast in BIMA Bulletin
- Forecasts for Norwegian inflation and interest rates, AIF, February 2010
- Latest evaluation of automatized econometric inflation forecasts (AIFs) by
comparison with Norges Bank's Monetary Policy Report forecasts.
Read more about the econometric forecasting model AIF and NAM by following the Normetrics link.
"Theory and methods debate"
2002: Faulty Watch Towers---'Structural' Models in Norwegian Monetary Policy Analysis.
2005: Evaluating a Central Bank's Recent Forecast Failure
Recent papers
"U.S. Natural Rate Dynamics Reconsidered", with Gunnar Bårdsen, in The Methodology and Practise of Econometrics, Oxford University Press, 2009.
"Model Selection for monetary policy analysis---How important is empirical validity?" with Q. Farooq Akram, in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009 (1), 35-68. Dataset and program files.
"The New Keynesian Phillips Curve Tested on OECD data", with Roger Bjørnstad, Economics The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 2, 2008-23.
"Macroeconometric modelling for policy”, with Gunnar Bårdsen, forthcoming in Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics Vol 2, Palgrave Mac-Millan, 2009.
"Consumption and population age structure", with Solveig Erlandsen, Journal of Population Economics, 21(3), 2008, pp. 505-520.
"Inflasjonsforventninger og pengepolitiske regimer", with R. Bjørnstad and Å. Cappelen. Samfunnsøkonomen, 63 (2), pp 17-29.
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