Ingvild Almås

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]

Ingvild Almås winner of the Nils Klim prize

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

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.