One of 2025’s most-read CEPR papers includes NHH researcher
A new study co-authored by NHH researcher Krisztina Molnár has become one of the most-read economics papers of 2025, according to the international network CEPR.
Associate Professor Krisztina Molnar
- Krisztina.Molnar@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 93 68
- Department
- Economics
- Centre
- Macro, Risk and Sustainability Centre
- Office
- E247
- Expertise
- Macroeconomics Monetary macroeconomics Expectation formation Household behavior
Krisztina Molnár is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), a position she has held since 2011, and an External Researcher at Norges Bank. Her research spans monetary macroeconomics and expectation formation, with recent work examining household consumption behavior using Norwegian administrative and transaction-level data.
Her work on optimal monetary policy when agents are adaptive learners has been featured in the Handbook of Monetary Economics.
She received her PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2006, under the supervision of Albert Marcet.
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Mele, Antonio; Molnar, Krisztina; Santoro, Sergio | On the perils of stabilizing prices when agents are learning | Journal of Monetary Economics; 2019 |
| Attanasio, Orazio; Kovacs, Agnes; Molnar, Krisztina | Euler Equations, Subjective Expectations and Income Shocks | Economica; page 1 - 36; 2019 |
| Ormeño, Arturo; Molnar, Krisztina | Using survey data of Inflation expectations in the estimation of learning and rational expectations models | Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Volume 47 (4); page 673 - 699; 2015 |
| Molnar, Krisztina; Santoro, Sergio | Optimal monetary policy when agents are learning | European Economic Review Volume 66; page 39 - 62; 2014 |
RESEARCH
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“Shaking Preferences: Earthquakes and Impatience”, joint with Karlygash Kuralbayeva (King’s College), Concetta Rondinelli (Banca d’Italia), Po Yin Wong (Hong Kong Monetary Authority)
- "On the perils of stabilizing prices when agents are Learning”, joint with Antonio Mele (U Surrey) and Sergio Santoro (Banca d’Italia) (forthcoming Journal of Monetary Economics)
- “Economic Stability and the Responsiveness of Inflation Expectations”, joint with Zoltan Reppa
- “Screening Experts: An Example for a First-Best Contract”, joint with Balazs Szentes (LSE) (to be revised)