About
Welcome! I am a final-year PhD candidate in Economics at BI Norwegian Business School. My supervisors are Professor Hilde C. Bjørnland and Dr. Knut Are Aastveit (Norges Bank).
My research is in applied macroeconomics and international economics. I study how global shocks, including oil price movements, supply chain disruptions, and foreign capital flows, transmit through small open economies. I use structural VAR models, local projections, and mixed-frequency methods to analyse these questions empirically. My work spans topics such as exchange rate dynamics, inflation, and financial conditions. In a single-authored paper, I study how generative AI affects labour market productivity and employment across countries.
Before starting the PhD, I worked as a Junior Researcher and Research Assistant at Norges Bank and at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomics and Commodity Prices (CAMP) at BI. I hold an MPhil in Economics from Bocconi University and an MSc in Business (with Honours) from BI Norwegian Business School.
Fields of Interest
Applied macroeconomics, international economics, time-series econometrics, forecasting, financial conditions.
Contact
Department of Economics
BI Norwegian Business School
Nydalsveien 37, 0484 Oslo, Norway
Email: helene.olsen@bi.no