• Norwegian Banks in a Recession: Procyclical Implications of Basel II 

      Andersen, Henrik (Working Papers;4/2009, Working paper, 2009)
      While the new capital adequacy framework, Basel II, aims to make the banks’ capital requirements more sensitive to the underlying risk of the assets, it may also introduce an additional source of procyclicality in the ...
    • Norwegian Banks’ Adjustment to Stricter Capital and Liquidity Regulation 

      Aronsen, Per Atle; Erard, Monique E. Erlandsen; Nordal, Kjell Bjørn; Turtveit, Lars-Tore (Staff Memo;18/2014, Working paper, 2014)
      Capital and liquidity requirements for Norwegian banks are being gradually tightened. This paper presents the alternatives Norwegian banks have for complying with stricter capital regulation and the forthcoming LCR. Norwegian ...
    • Norwegian Business Cycles 1982-2003 

      Husebø, Tore Anders; Wilhelmsen, Bjørn-Roger (Staff Memo;2/2005, Working paper, 2005)
      This paper analyses stylised facts regarding business cycles in Norway. We examine the empirical relationships between the aggregate business cycle and the cyclical components of individual macroeconomic time series. The ...
    • Norwegian Covered Bonds – a Rapidly Growing Market 

      Bakke, Bjørn; Rakkestad, Ketil Johan; Dahl, Geir Arne (Journal article, 2010)
      Covered bonds (OMFs) were introduced in Norway in June 2007 and have already become an important source of funding for Norwegian financial services groups and banking alliances. The volume outstanding in NOK and foreign ...
    • The Norwegian Government Petroleum Fund : Annual Report 1998 

      Ukjent forfatter (Annual report;1998, Report, 1998)
    • The Norwegian Government Petroleum Fund : Annual Report 1999 

      Ukjent forfatter (Annual report;1999, Report, 2000)
    • Norwegian Gross Domestic Product by Industry 1830 - 1930 

      Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Working Papers;19/2015, Working paper, 2015)
      The present paper offers new knowledge of historical national accounting in Norway in several ways. Firstly, a new and novel set of annual gross domestic product series by industry are presented for the period 1830-1930. ...
    • Norwegian homeowners’ debt-servicing capacity is adequate 

      Lindquist, Kjersti-Gro; Solheim, Haakon; Vatne, Bjørn Helge (Staff Memo;8/2022, Working paper, 2022)
      Debt-servicing capacity is a function of both available cash flow and the size of obligatory expenses. We use household level information to calculate normal expenses that cover food, other general consumption, electricity ...
    • Norwegian Interbank Market’s Response to Changes in Liquidity Policy 

      Akram, Q. Farooq; Findreng, Jon H. (Working Papers;7/2017, Working paper, 2017)
      We investigate pricing and activity in the Norwegian unsecured overnight interbank market in response to a shift in the central bank's liquidity policy. In October 2011, to encourage interbank trading, banks were allotted ...
    • Norwegian Krone No Safe Haven 

      Flatner, Alexander (Economic Commentaries;3/2009, Others, 2009)
      This Commentary examines the various currencies to identify those that seem to have been safe haven currencies since the start of the financial turmoil in summer 2007.
    • Norwegian Monetary Policy 

      Gjedrem, Svein (Others, 2000)
    • Norwegian Monetary Policy in the Age of the Euro 

      Gjedrem, Svein (Others, 2001)
    • Norwegian Overnight Interbank Interest Rates 

      Akram, Q. Farooq; Christophersen, Casper (Staff Memo;1/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      This paper addresses the lack of reliable information about overnight interest rates in the Norwegian interbank market. We infer actual interest rates from interbank transactions recorded in the real-time gross settlement ...
    • The Norwegian overnight interbank market during the Covid pandemic 

      Akram, Q. Farooq; Findreng, Jon H.; Smith, Lyndsie (Working paper;8/2023, Working paper, 2023)
      We analyse the behaviour of the Norwegian unsecured overnight interbank market in response to heightened uncertainty and the central bank's liquidity support measures following the Covid-19 pandemic. The liquidity measures ...
    • Notes on the Underground: Monetary Policy in Resource-Rich Economies 

      Ferrero, Andrea; Seneca, Martin (Working Papers;2/2015, Working paper, 2015)
      How should monetary policy respond to a commodity price shock in a resource-rich economy? We study optimal monetary policy in a simple model of an oil exporting economy to provide a first answer to this question. The central ...
    • Nowcasting GDP in Real-Time: A Density Combination Approach 

      Aastveit, Knut Are; Gerdrup, Karsten R.; Jore, Anne Sofie; Thorsrud, Leif Anders (Working Papers;11/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      In this paper we use U.S. real-time vintage data and produce combined density nowcasts for quarterly GDP growth from a system of three commonly used model classes. The density nowcasts are combined in two steps. First, a ...
    • Nowcasting Norwegian GDP: The Role of Asset Prices in a Small Open Economy 

      Aastveit, Knut Are; Trovik, Tørres G. (Working Papers;9/2007, Working paper, 2007)
      This paper finds that asset prices on Oslo Stock Exchange is the single most important block of data to improve estimates of current quarter GDP in Norway. Other important blocks of data are labor market data and industrial ...
    • Nowcasting Norwegian household consumption with debit card transaction data 

      Aastveit, Knut Are; Fastbø, Tuva Marie; Granziera, Eleonora; Paulsen, Kenneth Sæterhagen; Torstensen, Kjersti Næss (Working Paper;17/2020, Working paper, 2020)
      We use a novel data set covering all domestic debit card transactions in physical terminals by Norwegian households, to nowcast quarterly Norwegian household consumption. These card payments data are free of sampling errors ...
    • Nowcasting Using News Topics. Big Data Versus Big Bank 

      Thorsrud, Leif Anders (Working Papers;20/2016, Working paper, 2016)
      The agents in the economy use a plethora of high frequency information, including news media, to guide their actions and thereby shape aggregate economic fluctuations. Traditional nowcasting approches have to a relatively ...