Days at statistics in 2025 will take place over two days; Wednesday 22nd October and Thursday 23rd October at Statistics Norway. The event takes place in conjunction with a two-day visit by Professor Jennifer Castle (University of Oxford), who gives an invited lecture on each of the days. The rest of the first day will be a workshop of ongoing research projects at SSB under the KVARTS-agreement for 2025 and the NORA-agreement for 2025 with the Norwegian Ministry of Finance. The second workshop is organised in collaboration with Model Invariance and Constancy Project (UiO) and Centre for Applied and Theoretical Econometrics (CATE, BI).
Day 1 (Wednesday 22nd October)
Location: Statistics Norway (SSB), Oslo
Rooms: Auditorium at Statistics Norway (10.30-11.30) and meeting room Arbeid (13.00-17.00)
Organisers: Pål Boug (SSB) and Håvard Hungnes (SSB)
To attend, contact Pål Boug or Håvard Hungnes
Registration fee: None
Program day 1:
10.30-11.30 Lunch in the canteen at Statistics Norway, SSB (by invitation)
11.45-12.45 Jennifer Castle (University of Oxford): "Improving Models and Forecasts After Equilibrium-Mean Shifts", Invited seminar in the Auditorium at SSB. Joint with Jurgen A. Doornik (University of Oxford) and David F. Hendry (University of Oxford)
13.00-13.45 Thomas Gundersen (SSB): "Commodity Price Shocks and the Business Cycle of a Resource Rich Economy". Joint with Håkon Tretvoll (SSB) and Ewoud Quaghebeur (SSB)
13.45-14.30 Arvid Raknerud (SSB) and Trond Vigtel (SSB): "Trade Elasticities: A Panel GMM Approach to Estimation and Inference". Joint with Thomas von Brasch (SSB)
14.30-15.15 Roger Hammersland (SSB): "Modelling Financial-Macro Linkages: A Data-Driven Approach to Simultaneous Structural Design". Joint with Dag Kolsrud (SSB)
15.15-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.15 Julia Skretting (SSB): "Pass-Through of Exchange Rates and Other External Shocks to Firms Markups: Evidence from Norway". Joint with Håvard Hungnes (SSB)
16.15-17.00 Pål Boug (SSB): "Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Consumer Prices Before, During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic". Joint with Håvard Hungnes (SSB) and Takamitsu Kurita (Kyoto Sangyo University)
17.30 Dinner (location TBA), participants pay for their own food and drinks
The program for day 2 is maintained by CATE and Genaro Sucarrat (BI) here, and embedded below.