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).
From September to December 2026, I will be a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, participating in the project Energy Transition: Structural Shifts and Distributional Impacts led by Professor Hilde C. Bjørnland.
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