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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
There are over 20 million victims of trafficking from more than 136 countries in the world. This thesis takes a closer look at this modern form of slavery, in particular the nonlinear relation between gender equality and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Bruk av biodrivstoff som delvis substitutt for fossilt drivstoff antas å kunne redusere klimagassutslipp fra karbondioksid, CO2. Inntil nylig har det vært antatt at bruk av biodrivstoff har vært klimanøytralt, hvilket vil ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Hovedmålet med oppgaven er å undersøke i hvilken grad bytte av jobb mellom offentlig og privat sektor noen år før overgang til alderspensjon påvirker den forventede gjenstående livsløpsinntekten. Tidligere studier viser ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The recent financial crisis demonstrated that the actions of the participants in a close-to-unregulated financial system are the source of significant negative externalities both on the latter and on the rest of the economy. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Forskjeller i helse og dødelighet etter individuell inntekt og utdanning er grundig dokumentert. Alle som har studert dette finner at personer med høy inntekt og høy utdanning har bedre helse og lavere dødelighet enn andre. ...
Economic Growth: Institutions and Economic Growth Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
An empirical study of the fertility rebound in OECD countries The impact of income and family policy
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Økonomisk atferd i en verden i forandring
Norsk økonomi opplever av og til store forstyrrelser eller skift som kan påvirke økonomisk atferd. Et av hovedfunnene i avhandlingen er at konsumatferden i Norge, med inntekt og ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Many world regions are rapidly being exposed to water scarcity and will face challenges of water shortages in the future. A crude approach suggests that one way of dealing with the regional scarcity is through freshwater ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Denne oppgåva tek føre seg å studere effekten av byråkratisk korrupsjon på utanlandske verksemder i Vietnam. Tre hypotesar vert undersøkte ved å nytte ein instrumentvariabelstrategi. Denne instrumentvariabelstrategien går ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Med tusenvis av foreslåtte fusjoner i verden hvert år er det viktig å sile ut de med som vil være konkurranseskadelige og føre til mindre effektiv bruk av ressurser. I arbeidet med å sile ut fusjoner som er konkurransehindrende ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
In this thesis I study academic procrastination, and try to look at the phenomenon from various angles and approaches. I start out reviewing the literature on the subject, from both an economic and psychological perspective. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Calmfors and Driffill (1988) and others have shown that the degree of coordination in wage setting matters for wage growth, and indicators of coordination, by Kenworthy (2001) and others, show that Norway has a high degree ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis investigates weak identification when a forward looking Taylor rule is estimated with GMM. Lagged values of the nominal interest rate, inflation and the output gap are used as instruments. In the New Keynesian ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
De siste 100 årene har det blitt diskutert hvorvidt lønnsveksten til arbeidere vil følge produktivitetsveksten i økonomien. Statistikk for lønninger og produktivitet i USA viser at det fram til midten av 1970-tallet var ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Housing constitutes a large amount of all economic activity and plays a significant role for the business cycle, and is of great importance for monetary policy. How central banks should approach different housing variables ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Despite overwhelming scientific consensus on the importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it has proven very difficult to create a comprehensive international environmental agreement targeted at limiting these ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
De siste tiårene har flere og flere handelsavtaler blitt inngått. Partene er både nasjoner og grupper av nasjoner, som for eksempel EFTA og ASEAN. Ved å inngå en handelsavtale skaper partene sterkere bånd seg i mellom, i ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Kreft er en av de store folkesykdommene som tar mange liv i Norge og resten av verden. Det er store sosiale forskjeller i både insidens og dødelighet av kreft. I denne masteroppgaven forsøker jeg å bidra til kunnskap på ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
In this thesis, I study the inflow of remittances into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The flow of remittances has increased massively during the recent decades and is expected to continue growing as ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The effects of the wealth tax have been an endless source of debate in Norway. Those in favor of it claim that it has important distributional properties, while those who want to abolish it usually make their claim on ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Utdanningens effekt på fruktbarhet er et tema som er grundig kartlagt, men variasjoner mellom og innad i land er dårlig forstått. Med bekymringer knyttet til befolkningsvekst og dens konsekvenser for mennesker og miljø, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
In this thesis, I explain the concept of bunching around kink points in the tax schedule, and investigate whether such bunching may be occurring at the kink point created by the Norwegian wealth tax. I conclude that there ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis presents and discusses the theoretical and empirical literature that analyses the effects of monetary policy on financial stability. As a means to clarifi- cation and structure, the thesis will build on the IMF ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This study is motivated by the effort of the Norwegian Government and the Norwegian Armed Forces to reduce the female flight from Army ranks and looks into peer effects among conscripts in gender mixed rooms in the Norwegian ...
An empirical study of housing price in China The impact of firm performance and private sector Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis investigates the impact of macroeconomics indicators, especially the firm factor on house price index. By using the panel datasets of 35 large cities in China over the year of 2000 to 2009, I empirically test ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
While considerable evidence exists on tax responses for wage earners, less is known about the self-employed. To give insight into the self-employed, literature on tax-induced changes in taxable income, working hours, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This master’s thesis at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo develops and estimates a Hybrid Wage New Keynesian Phillips Curve (Wage-NKPC) with staggered wages and prices using Norwegian data (provided by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The Arctic offshore is an extremely difficult area for petroleum industry activity due to distance from infrastructure, harsh climate, unpredictable weather conditions, and vulnerability of the eco system. However, it is ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The main purpose of the thesis is twofold, first to provide a review of the literature on inflation expectations, and second, to empirically analyze Norwegian survey data. In the literature review, I trace the role of ...
XACT Derivat Bull, Langsiktige egenskaper og alternativer Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Målet med oppgaven er å analysere hvordan tilbøyeligheten til å få det tredje barnet påvirkes av mannens inntekt. Til tross for mange tidligere analyser av sammenhengen mellom sosioøkonomiske forhold og fruktbarhet er det ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Denne oppgaven analyserer det internasjonale kaffemarkedet generelt og kaffens effekt på Etiopias økonomiske utvikling spesielt. Analysen av Etiopia forholder seg til perioden 1980 til 2013, men fokuserer spesielt på ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The persistently high level of youth unemployment places policy makers across Europe under considerable pressures to accommodate the situation. This thesis seeks to provide insight into the general situation in four ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
For at pengepolitikken skal få gjennomslag til realøkonomien er det avgjørende at styringsrenten påvirker andre renter i økonomien. Risikopåslaget i pengemarkedsrentene er definert som differansen mellom renten og forventet ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Kommunene i Norge sysselsetter nesten hver femte av landets sysselsatte og kommunalt konsum utgjør ca. 13,5 prosent av BNP Fastlands-Norge. Kommunal atferd er dermed av stor betydning for norsk økonomi. I denne oppgaven ...
Betydningen av sosiodemografiske karakteristika ved befolkningen for dødelighetsforskjeller mellom norske kommuner Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
A Composite Indicator of Systemic Stress (CISS) for Norway Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis constructs a Composite Indicator of Systemic Stress (CISS) for Norway using a portfolio-theoretic framework as in Holló, Kremer and Lo Duca (2012) to facilitate real-time monitoring of the short-term development ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
In the recent years, a new battle against tax havens has emerged. After decades with inefficient efforts, the number of tax information treaties signed with tax havens suddenly skyrocketed after the financial crisis of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
In South Korea, 66% of youth aged between 25 and 34 have attained tertiary education in 2012, which is far above the OECD average of 39% (OECD, 2014). The high supply of college graduates leads to substantial competition. ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2015)
We show how techniques of data dimension reduction can be used to predict patterns of household dynamics in a multi-country context. Probabilistic household forecasts are presented for Denmark, Finland, Germany, the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis examines the weak form of market efficiency of the Oslo Stock Exchange and presence of the calendar effects on the market utilizing the data from three indices, namely OBX Total Return Index, OSEAX Oslo Børs ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis studies an economy (without growth) populated by overlapping generations of rich and poor agents, with the difference between them being that the rich are endowed with larger amounts of wealth in both period. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Several studies have found that there is in general a negative effect of job displacement on a large set of various labor market outcomes. However, many of these studies only compare the workers who remain in a firm upon ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Recent contributions in the environmental literature seem to suggest that incentives to environmental research is lower than incentives to ordinary research, arguing in favor for additional support for environmental R\&D. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Armed conflicts in any country highlight the frictions within society. Armed conflict brings untold miseries not only to the participants of the conflict but also to the innocent civilians caught up in it. Economics gives ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
For the past 30 years, the corporate income tax rates in the OECD countries have decreased from 45 percent in 1982 to below 27 percent in 2012. At the same time, the corporate income tax revenue as share of GDP has increased. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Congestion pricing has long been viewed as a viable strategy to mitigate externalities generated in traffic (Walters, 1961),(Pigou, 1924), but is yet to be widely implemented. For several reasons, it is a politically ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis highlights findings from behavioral economics in the context of real estate markets, and the housing market in particular. Behavioral biases such as loss aversion, anchoring, herding, investor sentiment, charm ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This paper examines the topic of net neutrality in a range of countries, with focus on Norway, the US and the EU region. It begins by examining the political settings of each country and by discussing different levels of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
I de siste par tiårene har det vokst frem en erkjennelse av at man ikke bare kan fokusere på å begrense klimagassutslipp, men at man også må fokusere på hvordan man skal tilpasse samfunnet til de klimaendringene man ikke ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis focuses on the economic effects of introducing quotas to an open access fishery. When quotas are introduced, effort should decrease. This leads to higher prices and lower costs. Thus, overall profits should ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Denne oppgaven tar for seg allmenngjøring av tariffavtaler i byggebransjen. Allmenngjøring av tariffavtaler oppfattes som et kontroversielt politisk virkemiddel både av arbeidsgiver- og arbeidstakerorganisasjoner, fordi ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
I april 2010 inngikk oljeselskapet ExxonMobil en avtale med nyoppstartede Njord Gas Infrastructure om salg av ExxonMobils eierandel på 9,4 prosent i det norske gassrørsystemet Gassled for en hemmelig sum. Transaksjonen er ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Kirkebøkenes informasjon om fødsler, dødsfall og giftermål er en av de viktigste kildene til tidlig norsk befolkningsstatistikk. Den offisielle nasjonale statistikken for disse demografiske begivenhetene er frem til år ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This paper is a survey of existing papers on the disposition effect, which may be described as a tendency for investors to ride losers too long and sell winners too soon. It provides a comprehensive overview of the existing ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
I denne hovedoppgaven skal jeg se på endringen i utbredelsen av svart arbeid mellom 1980 og 2001, og hva som kan forklare denne endringen. Med svart arbeid menes arbeid mot betaling som normalt sett skulle vært oppgitt til ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Ved beregning av forsikringspremie tar forsikringsselskapene utgangspunkt i kundenes skaderisiko og størrelsen på den risiko som overtas. Dette utgjør den forventede kostnad ved å forsikre forsikringstakeren. I denne ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Development aid comes in many different forms, and has a large range
of effects on the recipient countries and their economies. There exists a vast literature - in economics and other fields of research - on consequences ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2009)
What is the income of each sector of an economy? E.g., in the case of a country endowed with petroleum resources, what is the income of its petroleum sector? Here we present a definition of sectoral income, which is ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justified and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
De siste tiårene har det vært en voldsom vekst i utenlandske direkteinvesteringer (FDI). Med dette utviklet det seg et økende ønske fra investorer om et bedre juridisk rammeverk for å sikre investeringene. Dette har i all ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
I denne oppgaven studerer jeg om og hvordan innføringen av smarte strømmålere påvirker strømforbruket i norske husholdninger når dataene fra strømmåleren formidles til strømkunden gjennom en mobilapp. Jeg estimerer effekten ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Bankene spiller en viktig rolle i det finansielle systemet som formidlere av kreditt. Ved store tap på utlån, kan bankenes egenkapital falle markert. Det kan føre til at bankene strammer inn på sine utlån, noe som kan bidra ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
What ethical criterion for intergenerational justice should be adopted, e.g., when faced with the task of managing the global environment? Koopmans axiomatization of discounted utilitarianism is based on seemingly compelling ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 1993)
Er det faktisk mulig at en jevn fordeling stimulerer økonomisk vekst? I denne hovedoppgaven drøftes muligheten først med utgangspunkt i økonomisk teori. Deretter drøftes hvordan en egalitær fordeling kan ha bidratt til ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)
Economies that currently have the same productive capacity may implement different growth rates. This entails that it is insufficient to base international comparisons of welfare solely on current well-being, or introducing ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
We use Norwegian micro-data to identify the driving forces behind unemployment spells following temporary- and permanent dismissals. The duration of unemployment spells for permanently dismissed workers is primarily explained ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Småskala- og håndverksbasert gullgruvedrift (SHG) er et bredt begrep som brukes om ikke-industriell gullutvinning, ofte lokalisert i distriktene i utviklingsland. Hovedfokuset i omtalelser av disse gullutvinningsaktivitetene ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Oppgaven tar sikte på å analysere potensielle konsekvenser av å foreta pasientprioriteringer i spesialisthelsetjenesten basert på kostnadseffektivitet fremfor metoden som anvendes i Norge i dag. I en inntaksprosess skal ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Since the mid 90s 20 US states and DC have legalized medical marijuana, and similar reforms are being contemplated in several other states. To evaluate the pros and cons of medical marijuana reform it is important to know ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
For more than 30 years France has been facing high fiscal imbalances and rapidly growing debt ratios and the recent global financial crisis worsened French public finances. In the long term public debt levels are expected ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
The key to an understanding of the TV industry is the market for TV advertising. We present a model of this market that also encompasses the product markets and the viewer market. Because viewers dislike commercials, there ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
This dissertation comprises five essays on demographic consequences of international and internal migration:
The essay «Why immigrant fertility in Norway has declined» shows that the fertility decline among immigrant women ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
College education has a positive impact on birth rates, net of age and duration since previous birth, according to models estimated separately for second and third births. There are also indications of such effects on ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new regimes for electricity distributors. A sample of large electricity distribution utilities from Denmark, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
This paper examines the relationship between workers' productivity and preferred bonus scheme. The data are from a company where agents work in teams and receive a bonus that depends on individual and team performance. ...
A Political Economy Model to Antipoverty Programs in Venezuela : Food subsidies through fair price shops Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Venezuela’s current government, presided by Mr. Hugo Chavez, provides food products at subsidized prices through fair price shops called Mercal. The government claims to have reduced poverty from 60% to approximately 30% ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
(Series / Serietittel, 2002)
Denne serien er erstattet av: Memorandum fra Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo. Tilgjengelig i DUO vitenarkiv: http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-7118
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The content of this thesis is two-fold. First, I present a detailed overview of the setup and conduction of monetary policy in China. I describe the most important participants, the goals and instruments, and discuss the ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
In most European countries, nominal wages are given in collective agreements or individual employment contracts, and the employer cannot unilaterally cut wages, even after the expiration of a collective agreement. Ceteris ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The last decade, more industrialized countries and international organizations have shown interest in different types of government intervention in the market for child care. Among these is the OECD, and in his most recent ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
In most models of transboundary pollution, lack of international cooperation does not cause any inefficiency within each country. The paper shows that this result is only valid in the hypothetical case of no international ...
The Return of Liquidity Regulation - An Inquiry into Liquidity Regulation as a Prudential Policy Tool Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The financial crisis of 2007-08 highlighted the vulnerability of the financial system to a liquidity shock. Uninsured creditors ran on banks after observing a significant credit shock. Unable to meet its obligations to pay ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Det har i de siste ti årene funnet sted en økning i norsk kapital til mikrofinansprosjekter og i 2010 lå dette på i overkant av 600 millioner kroner. Interessen for mikrofinans i verden og i Norge er også stadig økende. ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
The bulk of acid depositions, which have harmful effects on the environment, are caused by foreign emissions in many European countries. Therefore, if some countries emit more acids, one cannot be sure that countries that ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2002)
This lecture discusses relationships between environmental and resource qualities and loads, and economic development, theoretically and empirically. We start in section 2 with a list of theoretical arguments that may or ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2004)
A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can rarely be enumerated in any sort of satisfactory manner. We would therefore like to ask the question: to what extent does acquiring employment ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2002)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis analyzes the effect of regional trade agreements (RTAs) on international patent collaborations, as a measure of knowledge flows. Patent collaboration generate knowledge flows between inventors through interactions ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
The discounted utilitarian criterion for infinite horizon social choice has been criticized for treating generations unequally. We propose an extended rank-discounted utilitarian (ERDU) criterion instead. The criterion ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
This dissertation consists of five essays on how gendered outcomes change when stressors put pressure on resources in Sub-Saharan Africa. Three essays consider how deviations in rainfall from what is normally observed in ...