Fields: macroeconomics, asset prices, economic growth

Short bio

Conny Olovsson obtained his PhD from Stockholm University in 2004. Prior to joining the Research Department of Sveriges Riksbank in 2013, he was a postdoc at the Stockholm School of Economics (2004-2008), and a visiting researcher at the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm (2008-2013).

Conny's research interests include public finance, asset pricing, economic growth and climate economics.

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Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, 2004
  • Master of Social Science, Stockholm University, 1998

Work in progress and working papers

Energy-saving technical change, (with John Hassler and Per Krusell) NBER working paper w18456. Revise and resubmit to Journal of Political Economy

 

Integrated Assessment in a Multi-region World with Multiple Energy Sources and Endogenous Technical Change, (with John Hassler, Per Krusell, and Michael Reiter)

 

The Granular Origins of House Price Volatility, (with Isaiah Hull, Karl Walentin, and Andreas Westermark), Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 349 

 

Oil prices in a real-business-cycle model with precautionary demand for oil, Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series  No. 332

 

International business cycles: quantifying the effects of a world market for oil, (with Johan Gars), Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 340


Fuel for economic growth?, (with Johan Gars) Appendix

 

Why do income and productivity differ in OECD countries?

 

The Climate and the Economy, preliminary, (with John Hassler and Per Krusell).

Publications in refereed journals

The Consequences of Uncertainty: Climate Sensitivity and Economic Sensitivity to the Climate, (with John Hassler and Per Krusell), forthcoming in Annual Review of Economics.

 

Optimal taxation with home production, Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 70, March 2015, PP. 39–50

 

How does a pay-as-you-go system affect asset returns and the equity premium? Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol 17, No.1, January 2014, pp. 131–149.

 

Quantifying the risk-sharing welfare gains of social security, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol 57:3, 2010. Appendix with a sensitivity analysis.

 

Oil Monopoly and the Climate, (with John Hassler, Per Krusell). American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 100, No.2, May 2010. pp: 460-464.

 

Why do Europeans Work so Little? International Economic Review,Vol 50, Nr.1, February 2009, pp.39-61. Working paper here. Appendix with a sensitivity analysis.

 

Essays on Dynamic Macroeconomics, Institute for International Economic Studies Monograph Series No. 48, Stockholm university, 2004.

Other publications
Bör varor och tjänster beskattas lika? (with Paul Klein), Ekonomisk Debatt 3, 2015. Awarded the Myrdal prize for best essay in Ekonomisk Debatt in 2015.

 

Ett EU-perspektiv på pensionerna, i Vägar till välfärd: idéer, inspiratörer, kontroverser, perspektiv. Liber förlag, Swärd, Edebalk och Wadensjö (red.), 2013. 

 

Klimatpolitik och teknologisk utveckling, (with Ulrika Stavlöt) in Nationalekonomi för miljöintresserade, Fores förlag.

 

Comment on the "Green paper towards adequate, sustainable and safe European pension systems", from the European Comission (Report to Sieps, December 2010).

 

Överskottsmålet och finansieringen av den framtida välfärden
(Report to the Swedish Ministry of Finance, June 2008).

Referee

AER, AEJMacro, Econometrica, Economic Inquiry, Economica, EER, EJ, EJPE, IER, JED, JEEA, JEDC, JEEA, Journal of Public Economics, JPE, JPET, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Princeton University Press, Oxford Economic Papers, RED, RESTUD, SJE, the B.E. Journals of Macroeconomics, The Manchester School.

Teaching

  • Mathematics 2 (First year Ph.D. course), Stockholm University 
  • The climate and the economy (master course), Stockholm University 
  • The climate and the economy (Second year Ph.D. course), Stockholm University 
  • Quantitative methods in macroeconomics (Second year Ph.D. course), Stockholm School of Economics 
  • Advanced Topics in Micro & Gen. Equilibrium Theory (Undergraduate), Stockholm School of Economics 
  • Sveriges näringsliv i historisk och internationell belysning: supervisor of undergraduate theses, Stockholm School of Economics.
  • Advanced Macroeconomics: Teaching Assistant, Stockholm University. 
  • Basic course in Macroeconomics with applications: Teaching Assistant, Stockholm University 
  • Economic theory with applications (micro): Teaching Assistant, Stockholm University