This year the NBW committee consists of Kyrre Martinius Knudsen, Chief Economist at SpareBank 1 SR-Bank, and Professor Gernot Doppelhofer, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). The Ministry of Finance uses the Norges Bank Watch reports as input to their annual Financial Markets Report to the Parliament, when assessing the conduct of monetary policy. The Ministry of Finance partly funds the Norges Bank Watch reports.