Egil Matsen
- Associate Professor
- Department of Economics, NTNU, NO-7491
- Dragvoll University Campus, building 7,
level 5, room 7534
- Telephone: +47 73 59 78 52 (direct line) +47 73 59 19 40 (office)
- Fax: +47 73 59 69 54
- E-mail: egil.matsen@svt.ntnu.no
- My CV
Primary fields of interest: Macroeconomics; Finance; Behavioral
Research in progress: (You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download the papers)
“Overconfidence,
monetary policy committees, and chairman dominance”, October 2009 (with Carl-Andreas
Claussen, Øistein Røisland,
and Ragnar Torvik).
“Human
capital investment and optimal portfolio choice”, December 2008 (with Snorre Lindset).
"Portfolio
choice when managers control returns", March 2007.
Forthcoming and published papers:
“Habit
formation, strategic extremism and debt policy”, Public Choice, forthcoming (with Øystein Thøgersen).
“Dominated choices
in a simple game with large stakes”, Experimental
Economics, 13 (1), March 2010 (with Bjarne Strøm).
“Optimal
information acquisition for a linear quadratic control problem”, European Journal of Operational Research,
199 (2), December 2009 (with Snorre
Lindset and Arne-Christian Lund).
“Savers, spenders, and fiscal
policy in a small open economy” The
B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 7 (1) (Topics), August 2007 (with Tommy Sveen
and Ragnar Torvik).
“Optimal
Dutch disease” Journal of Development
Economics, 78 (2), December 2005 (with Ragnar Torvik).
"International
diversification, growth, and welfare with non-traded income risk and incomplete
markets" Applied Financial
Economics 15 (15), October 2005.
“Interest
rate decisions in an asymmetric monetary union” European Journal of Political Economy, 21 (2), June 2005 (with Øistein Røisland).
"Designing social security - A
portfolio choice approach" European Economic Review,
48 (4), August 2004 (with Øystein Thøgersen).
"Public
employment and regional risk sharing" Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 106 (2), June 2004 (with Lars-Erik Borge).
"Financial integration and consumption
comovements in the Nordic countries" European
Review of Economics and Finance, 3 (2), April 2004 (with Øystein Thøgersen).
"Habit
persistence and welfare gains from international asset trade", Journal
of International Money and Finance,
22 (2), April 2003.
Editor: Egil Matsen, Contact address: Egil.Matsen@svt.ntnu.no, Updated: 3 March, 2010.