Thøgersen, Øystein

E-mail:

Oystein.Thogersen@nhh.no

Øystein Thøgersen

Telephone:

+47 55 959 546

Fax:

+47 55 959 543

Title:

Professor, dr. oecon.

Nationality:

Norwegian
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English

Teaching areas:

Master:

Macroeconomic policy and business cycles analysis, Growth theory, Social security, International macroeconomics

Doctoral courses:

International macroeconomics, Issues in social security/OLG models

Research:

Fiscal policy, social security, intergenerational distribution, open economy macroeconomics
Research in progress:
  • "Political feedback-effects of sectoral adjustments".
  • "Precautionary fiscal policy" (with Michal Zdenek).

Selected publications:
  • "Alternative risk sharing mechanisms of social security", forthcoming FinanzArchiv-Public Finance Analysis (with Kine Bøhlerengen).
  • "Habit formation, extremism and debt policy",  forthcoming Public Choice (with Egil Matsen).
  • "Social security and future generations", chapter 16 in Handbook on Research in Cost-Benefit Analysis, ed.: R.J. Brent, Edward Elgar Ltd., 2009, 417-454 (with Hans Fehr).
  • "Assessing the effects of early retirement programs",  Journal of Population Economics,  17, 2004, 387-408  (with Espen Bratberg and Tor Helge Holmås).
  • "Designing social security - A portfolio choice approach",  European Economic Review, 48, 2004, 883-904  (with Egil Matsen). 
  • "Financial integration and consumption movements in the Nordic countries",  European Review of Economics and Finance,  3, 2004, 31-48 (with Egil Matsen).
  • "Borrow or adjust - Optimal fiscal policy and the speed of sectoral adjustment in an open economy",  International Economic Review, 44, 2003, 699-724   (with Erling Steigum ).
  • "Social security reforms and early retirement." Journal of Population Economics,  16, 2003, 345-361  (with Hans Fehr and Wenche Irén Sterkeby).
  • "Reforming social security: Assessing the effects of alternative funding strategies in a small open economy", Applied Economics, 33, 2001, 1531-1540
  • "A note on intergenerational risk sharing and the design of pay-as-you-go pension programs", Journal of Population Economics, 11, 1998, 373-378.
  • "Government resource revenues, fiscal policy and precautionary saving", Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 6, 1997, 377-391.
  • "International diversification and oil price risk", Applied Economics Letters, 4, 1997, 587-590.
  • "Petroleum wealth, debt policy and intergenerational welfare: The case of Norway", Journal of Policy Modeling, 17, 1995, 427-442. (With Erling Steigum )

Selected involvements:

 

 
  • Head of Department of Economics at NHH.
  • Adjunct Professor, University of Stavanger.
  • Scientific adviser to SNF - Foundation for Research in Economics and Business.
  • Affiliated to the "CES-Ifo" research network at the University of Munich.
  • 2004-2009: Member of the Executive Board of Norges Bank (the Central Bank of Norway).
  • 2003: Member of board, Centre for Monetary Economics
  • 1999-2003 Member of "Modellutvalget" - an advisory council to the Ministry of Finance.
  • 1999-2003: Macroeconomic Adviser to Moe Securities ASA.
  • 1999-2001: Representative to "Norway Bank Watch", an expert committee appointed to monitor and assess monetary policy in Norway.