Erling Røed Larsen

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

Academic Interests:

• Behavioral finance and market efficiency
• Housing market, housing derivatives, housing taxation, housing and macro
• Applied Econometrics: estimation of demand, non-parametric techniques, structural breaks, Monte Carlo bootstrap simulation
• Consumer behavior: Engel curves, standard of living, costs of living, price indices, interdependence
• International economics, trade, purchasing power parity
• Environmental valuation: indirect methods, stated preference methods
• Foundations of economic methodology and explanation: association vs. causation, decision theoretic approaches, data mining vs. hypothesis testing
• The link between micro and macro: micro expectations and macro consequence, herds, criticality, avalanches, geometry of consumer confidence
• The economics of resource extraction, Dutch Disease, Resource curse