We present novel findings on the impact of monetary policy on consumer spending behavior using a recently assembled high-frequency household expenditure panel. Leveraging comprehensive weekly electronic transaction-level data for all individuals in Norway in the period 2006-2018, our study sheds light on the high-frequency consumption response to monetary policy through changes in fast moving debt […]

The Department of Economics invites you to a Faculty seminar with Ragnar Torvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). ABSTRACT Political leaders make policy choices which are often hard to explain via institutions. We use the behavior of Colombian paramilitary groups as an environment to study non-institutional sources of variation in how public good […]