Professor Takamitsu Kurita from Kyoto Sangyo University will visit the research department from September 21 to September 25, 2026, to work on a joint research project. During his visit, we are hosting a two-day workshop in the series "Days at Statistics". On Wednesday, September 23, we will focus on research projects under Statistics Norway's agreements with the Ministry of Finance. On Thursday, September 24, we are holding a joint workshop with the Centre for Applied and Theoretical Econometrics (CATE, BI) and the Model Invariance and Constancy Project (UiO).
Location: Statistics Norway (SSB), Oslo
Room: Meeting room Arbeid at Statistics Norway
Local organisers: Pål Boug (SSB) and Håvard Hungnes (SSB)
To attend, contact Pål Boug or Håvard Hungnes
Registration fee: None
Program Day 1 (September 23):
Presentations of research projects under Statistics Norway's agreements with the Ministry of Finance.
12:30 - 13:30 DSGE Models
Håkon Tretvoll (SSB): "Commodity Price Shocks and Business Cycles in a Resource-Rich Economy". Joint with Thomas Gundersen (SSB) and Ewoud Quaghebeur (SSB).
Ewoud Quaghebeur (SSB): "Comparing Fiscal Multipliers under Different Environmental Policy Regimes". Joint with Emil Karlsen (NMBU).
13:30 - 13:45 Break
13:45 - 15:15 Financial, Micro and Macro Linkages
Roger Hammersland (SSB): "Modelling Financial-Macro Linkages: A Data-Driven Approach to Simultaneous Structural Design". Joint with Dag Kolsrud (SSB).
Geir Bjertnæs (SSB): "Tax cuts versus profit shifting regulations".
Michael Graber (SSB): "Production Networks and the Propagation of Micro Shocks to Macro Fluctuations".
15:15 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 17:00 Mark-up Pricing
Thomas von Brasch (SSB): "Beyond Constant Markups: Identifying the Export Elasticity under Strategic Pricing". Joint with Trond Vigtel (SSB) and Arvid Raknerud (SSB).
Pål Boug (SSB): "State-Dependent Inflation Dynamics in a Small Open Economy: A CVAR Approach". Joint with Håvard Hungnes (SSB) and Takamitsu Kurita (Kyoto Sangyo University).
Julia Skretting (SSB): "The Transmission of External Shocks to Markup Wedge".
Program Day 2 (September 24):
Workshop in cooperation with the Centre for Applied and Theoretical Econometrics (CATE, BI) and the Model Invariance and Constancy Project (UiO).
11:00 - 11:30 Registration and coffee
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch in the canteen at SSB
12:30 - 14:00 Productivity, Skills and the Output Gap
Jan Ditzen (University of Bolzano): "How cohesion policy shapes productivity through industrial and cross-border spillovers". Joint with A. Santos and A. Conte.
Gabriel Lewis (BI): "Skill or skills?"
Håvard Hungnes (SSB): "Decomposing the Output Gap: Robust Multivariate Hodrick-Prescott Filtering"
14:00 - 14:15 Coffee break
14:15 - 15:45 Wage Formation and Exchange Rates
Victoria Sparrman (NHO): "Conditioned by institutions? The Wage-Share Channel in Nominal Wage Formation". Joint with A. Kordt (UiO), F. Kostøl (NTNU) and R. Nymoen (UiO).
Ragnar Nymoen (UiO): "The Nominal exchange rate regression reconsidered". Joint with J. Castle (University of Oxford).
Thor Andreas Aursland (Norges Bank): "Comparing wage setting frameworks: sectoral bargaining vs. sectoral labour supply"
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Inflation Forecasting
Andrea Viselli (BI): "Short-Term Density Forecasting of Inflation: Evidence from Prediction Markets"
Genaro Sucarrat (BI): "The Inflation Forecasts of Norges Bank"
Dinner at SSB (pizza and drinks)
For more information about this workshop, see the website of the CATE workshop.
Financial support from Ingegerd og Arne Skaugs Forskningsstiftelse is much appreciated!