1. Specialisation Objectives
The programme prepares students for the international academic job market, for positions in research organisations and consulting firms, as well as national and international institutions like central banks, the IMF and the World Bank.
2. The Department
The Department of Economics consists of 29 faculty members, including 8 professors, 7 associate professors, 3 assistant professors, and 4 adjunct professors. The Department hosts two research centres, Centre for Monetary Economics (CME) and Centre for Research in Economics and Management (CREAM).
CME has established a professional network and organises meetings and seminars for researchers and economists working in academic institutions, financial markets, Norges Bank, the Ministry of Finance, the FSA of Norway, as well as other institutions. CME organizes the annual Norges Bank Watch review of monetary policy, which is financed by the Ministry of Finance.
The objective of CREAM is to provide high quality research in the fields of industrial economics and labour economics, to provide research-based advice to decision makers in the public and private sectors, and to serve as a network for researchers and decision makers.
The Department is a member of the Nordic Network in Economics – a joint Nordic initiative offering intensive PhD courses by specialists, and financing the participation of PhD students from all the Nordic countries.
3. Areas of Research
The Department's faculty members are actively engaged in academic research. Without being exhaustive, the following list of research areas covers the main research output from the Department of Economics in recent years:
• Business cycles and monetary policy
• Microeconomics and industrial economics
• International macroeconomics
• Labour economics
• R&D and economic growth
• Statistics and econometrics
For each of these fields, the department maintains an international network of colleagues at other institutions. This is also reflected in the department’s weekly seminar series.
4. Distinguishing Features of the Specialisation
• All PhD students will work closely with members of faculty and they will be included in the research activities of the Department
• In regard to specialization courses and PhD-seminars, The Department cooperates with the Department of Finance at BI as well as with The Department of Economics at the University of Oslo, located close to BI.
• The Nordic Network in Economics offers a wide range of advanced PhD courses in economics
• Students are encouraged to make a long-term visit to a foreign university that is part of the Department’s international network.
