Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal
Research Fellow II
Contact information:
Email: bjornark[at]oslomet.no
Research interests:
Housing markets, macroeconomics, tourism, applied econometrics
Personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/bjornarkk
Bjørnar is a Professor in Economics at Østfold University College, and a part-time researcher at Housing Lab. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the Department of Economics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2013.
His research is mainly focused on applied econometrics related to the housing market, macroeconomics, tourism and climate.
Natural disasters, insurance claims and regional housing markets. Forthcoming in Advances in Econometrics.
Complement or competition? Airbnb-based tourism and local housing markets in four Norwegian cities (with B. Leick and M. A. Eklund). In Kock, F., Lindgreen, A., & Markovic, S. (eds.). Research Handbook on Tourism, Complexity and Uncertainty, Edward Elgar, 2024.
Long run non-linearity in CO2 Emissions: The I(2) Cointegration Model and the Environmental Kuznets Curve. Empirica, 2023.
Estimating DSGE models: From Calibration to Cointegration. In: Econometrics – Recent Advances and Applications, IntechOpen, 2023.
Behavioral changes in the housing market before and after the Covid-19 lockdown (with André K. Anundsen, Bjørnar K. Kivedal & Leif Anders Thorsrud). Journal of Housing Economics, 2023, 59: B.
Working papers
Climate Risks and Housing Markets (with W. Svellingen and G. Torgersen). Housing Lab Working Paper series 2025-4.
Housing bubble scars (with K.A. Aastveit, A.K. Anundsen and E.R. Larsen). Housing Lab Working Paper series 2023-2 and Norges Bank Working Paper 13/2023.
Work in progress
Climate risks and housing markets (with Werner Svellingen and Geir Torgersen).
Homeownership share and housing market stability: Implications for social housing policy (with Trond Arne Borgersen).