Michael Bergman Associate Professor
Department of Economics University of Copenhagen Øster Farimagsgade 5, building 26 DK-1353 Copenhagen K E-mail: Michael.Bergman@econ.ku.dk Phone: +45 35323003 Fax: +45 35323000 |
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Seminar presentations |
| Seminarium om Eurons framtid arrangerat av SNS, 29 November 2011: Skuldkrisen i Europa - Orsaker och botemedel (in Swedish) Slides. |
| Panel debatt Almedalen 5 juli 2011: Överlever euron utan europeisk skatteunion? (in Swedish) Se inspelningen från seminariet (Högskolan i Visby). |
| Presentation at the 15th ICMAIF conference Crete May 26 2011: Budget consolidations in the aftermath of a financial crisis: Lessons from the Swedish budget consolidation 1994-97 Slides |
| Præsentation EPRN netværkskonference 16 juni 2011: De svenske erfaringer med offentlig udgiftsstyring Slides |
| Europaperspektiv: Eurokrisen 8 februari 2011: Överlever euron utan fiskal union? Se en inspelning från seminariet (SVT Play) |
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Teaching |
| International Monetary Economics Fall 2012: To access the course website, please log on to Absalon via www.punkt.ku.dk and search for the course in the Course catalogue or if you are already logged in you can click here. |
| Economic Seminar: Empirical analysis of financial crises Spring 2012: To access the course website, please log on to Absalon via www.punkt.ku.dk and search for the course in the Course catalogue or if you are already logged in you can click here. |
| International Finance Spring 2012: To access the course website, please log on to Absalon via www.punkt.ku.dk and search for the course in the Course catalogue or if you are already logged in you can click here. |
| Lecture on the Danish Flexicurity model for students from Alain-Fournier highschool, Bourges, France Download. |
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Recent
Working Papers Working papers are available for downloading and printing in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. To read and print PDF files you need Adobe Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded from the Adobe Home Page. |
 Are Excise Taxes on Beverages Fully Passed Through to Prices? The Danish Evidence (with Niels Lynggård Hansen)| PDF file | |
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Currency Crises and Monetary Policy in an Economy with Credit Constraints: The No Interest Parity Case
(with Shakill Hassan). EPRU Working Paper Series No. 2008-01. | PDF file (long 2009 version) | PDF file (short 2010 version) | |
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Sectoral Real Exchange Rate Adjustments in Europe. | PDF file | |
Recent writings in Swedish |
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Svensk Finanspolitik, Finanspolitiska rådets rapport 2012, (medförfattare). Slutsatser och sammanfattning |
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Tidsbestämning av svensk konjunktur 1970-2010, Rapport till Finanspolitiska rådet, 2011/2
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Svensk Finanspolitik, Finanspolitiska rådets rapport 2011, (medförfattare). Slutsatser och sammanfattning. |
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Hur varaktig är en förändring i arbetslösheten?, Rapport till Finanspolitiska rådet, 2010/1
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Har finanspolitik omvända effekter under omfattande budgetsaneringar? Den svenska budgetsaneringen 1994-1997, Rapport till Finanspolitiska rådet, 2010/2
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Svensk Finanspolitik, Finanspolitiska rådets rapport 2010, (medförfattare). Slutsatser och sammanfattning. |
| Publications in English
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Best in Class: Public Finances in Sweden during the Financial Crisis, Panoeconomicus, 58:431-453,
2011. |
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Business Cycle Synchronization in Europe: Evidence
from the Scandinavian Currency Union, The Manchester School, 79:268-292,
2011. (with Lars Jonung) |
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The
Common-Trend and Transitory Dynamics in Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Applied Economics,
43:1-18, 2011. (with
Yin-Wong Cheung and Kon Lai) |
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Monetary Policy During
Speculative Attacks: Are there Adverse Medium Term Effects? North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 21, 5-18, 2010. (with Mads Jellingsø) |
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Expansionary
Fiscal Contractions: Re-evaluating the Danish Case, International Economic
Journal, 24, 71-93, 2010. (with Michael Hutchison) Supplement |
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Norges Bank Watch 2009 Monetary Policy and the Financial Turmoil, Norges
Bank Watch Series No. 10, Center for Monetary Economics, BI Norwegian School of
Management, 2009 (with Steinar Juel and Erling Steigum). |
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Finnish and
Swedish Business Cycles in a Global Context, International Economics and Economic Policy, 5, 49-69, 2008 |
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How
Similar are European Business Cycles?, in G.L. Mazzi and G. Savio, eds.,
Growth and Cycle in the Euro-zone, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. |
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Real Exchange Rates and Switching Regimes, Journal of International
Money and Finance, 24, 121-138, 2005 (with Jesper Hansson). |
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Dissecting the PPP Puzzle: The Unconventional Roles of
Nominal Exchange Rate and Price Adjustments, Journal of International Economics,
64, 135-150, 2004 (with Yin-Wong Cheung and Kon Lai).
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| Northern Light: Do Optimal Currency Area Criteria Explain Nordic Reluctance to Join EMU?, in J. von Hagen and M. Widgren, eds., Regionalism in Europe: Geometries and Strategies After 2000, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001 (with Michael M. Hutchison). |
| Testing Government Solvency and the No Ponzi Game Condition, Applied Economics Letters, 8:27-29, 2001. |
| Do Monetary Unions Make Economic Sense? Evidence from the Scandinavian Currency Union 1873-1914, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 101:363-377, 1999.
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| The Costs of EMU and Economic Convergence, in A. Hughes Hallett, M. Hutchison and S.E.H. Jensen, eds., Fiscal Aspects of European Monetary Union, Cambridge University Press, 1999 (with Michael M. Hutchison).
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| Economic Expansions and Fiscal Contractions: International Evidence and the 1982 Danish Stabilization, in T. Andersen, S.E.H. Jensen and O. Risager, eds., Macroeconomic Perspectives on the Danish Economy, MacMillan, 1999 (with Michael M. Hutchison).
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| Historical Evidence on Business Cycles: The International Experience, in, J.C. Fuhrer and S. Schuh, eds., Beyond Shocks: What Causes Business Cycles?, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Conference Series No. 42, June 1998 (with Michael D. Bordo and Lars Jonung). |
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International Evidence on the Sources of Macroeconomic Fluctuations, European Economic Review, 40:1237-1258, 1996.
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The Rise and Fall of the Scandinavian Currency Union 1873-1920, European Economic Review, 37:507-517, 1993 (with Stefan Gerlach and Lars Jonung).
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The Business Cycle Has Not Been Dampened: The Case of Sweden and the United States 1873-1988,''
Scandinavian Economic History Review, XLI:18-36, 1993
(with Lars Jonung).
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The Business Cycle Has Not Been Dampened: A Reply, Scandinavian Economic History Review,
XLI:286-290, 1993 (with Lars Jonung).
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External Influences in Nordic Business Cycles 1870-1988, Open Economies Review, 3:1-22, 1992
(with Stefan Gerlach and Lars Jonung).
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Is the Norwegian Business Cycle Asymmetric?'' in K. Velupillai, ed., Nonlinearities,
Disequilibria and Simulation: Quantitative Methods in the
Stabilization of Macroeconomic Systems, MacMillan, 1992 (with Lars Jonung).
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Public Policy in a Principal-Agent Framework, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2:339-352,
1990 (with Jan-Erik Lane).
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| Publications in Swedish |
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Svensk Finanspolitik, Finanspolitiska rådets rapport 2012 (Swedish Fiscal Policy, Report of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council 2012) (coauthor).
In Swedish and in English.
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Den statsfinansiella krisen i EU - orsaker och botemedel (The Sovereign Debt
Crisis in EU - Causes and Cures), in Överlever EMU utan fiskal union? (Will
EMU Survive Without a Fiscal Union?), Bernitz, U., L. Oxelheim and T. Persson,
eds.,
Santérus Förlag,
2011.
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Svensk Finanspolitik, Finanspolitiska rådets rapport 2011 (Swedish Fiscal Policy, Report of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council 2011) (coauthor).
In Swedish and in English.
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Tidsbestämning av svensk konjunktur 1970-2010 (Dating the Swedish business cycle
1970-2010), Finanspolitiska rådet, Studier i finanspolitik 2011/2. |
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Hur varaktig är en förändring i arbetslösheten?, Rapport till Finanspolitiska rådet, 2010/1
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Har finanspolitik omvända effekter under omfattande budgetsaneringar? Den svenska budgetsaneringen 1994-1997, Rapport till Finanspolitiska rådet, 2010/2
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Svensk Finanspolitik, Finanspolitiska rådets rapport 2010 (Swedish Fiscal Policy, Report of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council 2010) (coauthor).
In Swedish and in English.
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Anpassas svenska priser till europeisk nivå?, (Do Swedish Prices Converge to the European Level?) Ekonomisk Debatt, 7, 21-36,
2004. (Awarded the Myrdal-prize for best article in Ekonomisk debatt in 2004)
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Hur bör finanspolitiken utformas vid ett
svenskt EMU medlemskap?'' in Gustavsson, S., L. Oxelheim and N. Wahl, eds., Europaperspektiv 2003,
Santérus Förlag, 2003.
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Finanspolitikens roll i en valutaunion (The Role of Fiscal Policy within a Monetary Union), Bilaga 2 in
Stabilitet och stabiliseringspolitik i EMU, Delbetänkande av Kommittén för stabiliseringspolitik
för full sysselsättning vid svenskt medlemskap i
valutaunionen (report by the Swedish Government's Committee on
Stabilization Policy in EMU), SOU 2001:62, 2001.
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Svenskt och internationellt konjunkturbeteende (Swedish and International Business Cycle
Behavior), Bilaga 13 till Långtidsutredningen 1995,
Finansdepartementet, Stockholm, 1994 (with Lars Jonung).
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Comments and reviews |
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Review of: Josephson, C., Growth and Business Cycles: Swedish Manufacturing Industry,
1952-2001, Lund Studies in Economic History 37, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2005,
Journal of Economic History, pp.
599-601, 2009.
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Review of: Siven, C-H (ed.), Unemployment in Europe: Analysis and Policy Issues, Timbro,
Stockholm, 1988, Ekonomisk Debatt, pp. 417-419, 1988:5.
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Comment on: ``Macroeconomic Shocks in Sweden 1878-1990'', in Bergström, V. and A.
Vredin, eds., Measuring and Interpreting Business Cycles, pp. 214-218, Oxford University
Press: Oxford, 1994.
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Newspaper articles in Swedish |
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EMU-argumenten har varit missvisande, Axess, Nummer 2 Mars 2007
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