Hilde C. Bjornland is a Professor of Economics at the BI Norwegian Business School. She holds a Master of Science in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from London School of Economics, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Oslo. She was awarded His Majesty, The King of Norway’s Gold medal for the Ph.D. thesis in social Sciences. Her main area of research is within applied macroeconomics and time series. Special interests include the study of natural resources, business cycles, and monetary and fiscal policy. She has published in leading journals such as the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics and Journal of Monetary Economics. She is also the co-author of the book: “Applied Time Series For Macroeconomics”. Bj?rnland is the Director of the research centre CAMP (Centre for Applied Macro- and Petroleum economics) at the BI Norwegian Business School and she holds a position as a scientific advisor to Norges Bank.