Ingvild Almås

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Ingvild Almås winner of the Nils Klim prize

Ingvild Almås is a professor of economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University.[1] She is also an external member of the new committee on monetary policy and financial stability in Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway.[2]

Almås obtained her PhD from the Norwegian School of Economics in 2008 with a thesis on economic inequalities for which she received Norges Bank's award for best PhD thesis in macroeconomics.[3]

Almås' research is mainly focused on gaining a better understanding of economic inequalities and has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review[4] and the Journal of Political Economy.[5] She was elected fellow of the European Economic Association in 2021.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Ingvild Almås - IIES-Institute for International Economic Studies".
  2. ^ Finance, Ministry of (November 15, 2019). "Appointment of members to the Monetary Policy and Financial Stability Committee in Norges Bank". Government.no.
  3. ^ "Tidligere vinnere av beste avhandling i makroøkonomi".
  4. ^ Almås, Ingvild (April 21, 2012). "International Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food". American Economic Review. 102 (2): 1093–1117. doi:10.1257/aer.102.2.1093. hdl:11250/163032 – via www.aeaweb.org.
  5. ^ Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, Bertil (July 23, 2019). "Cutthroat Capitalism versus Cuddly Socialism: Are Americans More Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking than Scandinavians?". Journal of Political Economy: 000–000. doi:10.1086/705551. hdl:11250/2423528 – via journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon).
  6. ^ "Fellows | EEA". www.eeassoc.org. Retrieved 2021-07-05.