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January 18, 2017

Francesco Furlanetto on what recent immigration did (and didn't do) to Norway's economy

An interview at the 2017 AEA poster session

Francesco Furlanetto is a senior researcher at Norges Bank. He sat down for an interview with the AEA to discuss some of the conventional thinking about the effect immigrants have on a nation's economy and what he discovered in Norway.

Immigration and the Macroeconomy: A VAR Analysis

We propose a new VAR identification scheme that enables us to disentangle immigration shocks from other macroeconomic shocks. Identification is achieved by imposing sign restrictions on Norwegian data over the period 1990Q1 - 2014Q2. The availability of a quarterly series for net . . .

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The AEA interviewed select poster presenters at the 2017 conference in Chicago to discuss their research and the broader implications of their work. View the full list of videos.