Krisztina Molnar

Krisztina Molnar is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), specializing in macroeconomics and monetary policy. Her research focuses on expectation formation, household consumption, saving decisions, and the integration of big microdata into economic models. She collaborates extensively with institutions like Banca d'Italia and the London School of Economics (LSE).

Key research areas include identifying preference shocks through natural disasters, analyzing the perils of price stabilization under agent learning, and exploring income shocks' effects on household behavior. Her methodological innovations include textual analysis and survey data integration in econometric models.

Notable contributions include work on the Handbook of Monetary Economics and the Journal of Monetary Economics. She has presented groundbreaking research such as the HANKSSON framework at the 2024 SED conference. Despite no explicit awards listed, her work has been incorporated into leading academic curricula, including Woodford's syllabus.

Current projects involve interdisciplinary approaches to microdata and preference shocks, with ongoing collaborations on the effects of earthquakes on household savings and the implications of learning dynamics in monetary policy design.