Erling Røed Larsen (on leave)

Academic Degrees: Ph.D., Economics, UC Berkeley, 2001. MA, Statistics, UC Berkeley, 1998. Cand.polit., Economics, UiO, 1995.

Academic Interests:

• Financial efficiency, housing market mechanisms, housing derivatives, wealth effect, housing taxation, housing and macro
• Applied Econometrics: estimation of demand systems, non-parametric techniques, structural breaks, Monte Carlo bootstrap simulation
• Consumer behavior: standard of living, costs of living, price indices, interdependence, social positioning, contexts and frames, networks
• Environmental valuation: indirect methods, stated preference methods
• Foundations of economic methodology and explanation: association vs. causation, decision theoretic approaches, data mining vs. hypothesis testing, reflective equilibrium
• Cliometrics: use of latent variable models and principal component models in measurements of industrial revolution, fall of aggregate demand in the Great Depression, metrics of growth
• The link between micro and macro: micro expectations and macro consequence, herds, criticality, avalanches, geometry of consumer confidence, simulation
• Philsophy of economics: explanatory power, well-being: state, trait or something else?, institutional approaches
• Housing Economics, Housing Price Indices
• The economics of resource extraction, Dutch Disease, Resource curse