External internatonal tasks 2018: - Chairman in a panel evaluating research in Economics in Norway, Norges Forskningsråd (NFR); a 1 year task (mid-2017 to mid-2018) - Chairman for the steering board of program SKATT, Norges Forskningsråd -Member of "planutvalg for forskningssatsing om makroøkonomiske utfordringer", NFR, Dec 2018-mid 2019 - Member of the advisory board of Edinburgh University Business School - Member of the advisory board of Lund School of Economics and Management at Lund University