Kjetil Storesletten#
| Membership Number: | 3553 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | http://folk.uio.no/kjstore |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2012 Professor at Department of Economics, University of Oslo
- 2009 - 2012 Monetary Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- 2003 - 2009 Professor at Department of Economics, University of Oslo
- 1995 - 2003 Assoociate professor at IIES (Stockholm University)
- since 2007 Visiting Professor at University of Zurich (part time)
- since 2012 Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics
- since 2003 Chairman and director of the Review of Economic Studies
- 2006 - 2010 Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies
- since 2012 Op-ed columnist in the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv
- 2005 - 2012 Op-ed columnist in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten
Fields of Scholarship
- Asset pricing
- Immigration
- Political economy
- Risk sharing and inequality
- Labor supply
- Transition economies, China
- Quantitative macroeconomics
Honours and Awards
- 2013 ERC Advanced Grant 324085: "The Macroeconomics of Inequality, Development and the Welfare State" (€ 2.1 million)
- 2008 elected into the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters (member)
- 2007 Co-applicant for Center of Excellence at Department of Economics at University of Oslo, awarded by the Norwegian Science Foundation (50 million NOK, 2007-2011)
- 2005-2009 Norwegian Science Foundation's Outstanding Young Investigator grant (7 million NOK)
- 2002 CEPR Research Fellow
- 1996 Carl Mannerfeldt Fund Grant (annually until 2002)
- 1991 Doctoral fellowships from NHH, W. L. Mellon Foundation, and the North European Management Institute
