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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
In this paper, we examine the resource curse hypothesis for the period 1970 - 2007 using a long list measure of natural resources in which we categorized in to: the dependence measures, the intermediate measures and the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis considers whether acquiring host-country citizenship affects the labour market integration of immigrants. I conduct an empirical analysis of whether naturalisation affects occupational status using a panel of ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
Parents inuence their children's adult outcomes through economic and genetic endowments, transmission of cultural values and social skills, and through choice of residential location. Using a variance decomposition framework ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2004)
It has often been claimed that firms’ compliance to environmental regulations is higher than predicted by standard theory, a result labeled the “Harrington paradox” in the literature. Enforcement data from Norway presented ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
How will the commitment to price stability affect labour market rigidities in the European Monetary Union? I explore a model where firms choose between fixed wage contracts (where the employer cannot lay off the worker, ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
We seek to explain why TV advertising is dominated by a few product categories. We apply a model of the TV industry that encompasses both the product markets and the market for TV viewers to discuss who will advertise on ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2002)
This paper presents both theoretical analysis and econometric evidence for the United States, Great Britain and Norway on the extent to which hourly wages of different groups of workers are sensitive to ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2002)
We explore the efficacy of price and quantity controls as environmental policy instruments in a stochastic setting in which agents are risk averse. We demonstrate that the assumption of risk aversion may improve the ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2002)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
Strategic use of environmental information may have as consequence that a benevolent environmental agency will choose not to disclose information leading to reduced moral motivation. Thus, decision makers will not have ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Various extensions of the leximin order to the infinite dimensional setting have been suggested. They relax completeness and strong anonymity. Instead, by removing sensitivity to generations at infinite rank this paper ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2002)
The dynamic properties of the The New Keynesian Phillips curve (NPC) is analysed within the framework of a small system of linear difference equations.
We evaluate the empirical results of existing studies which uses ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2002)
This paper reports on the empirical properties of the bid auction (buyers propose prices), offer auction (sellers suggest prices) and double auction (both buyers and seller initiate price quotes). These trading institutions ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
Discounted utilitarianism treats generations unequally and leads to seemingly unappealing consequences in some models of economic growth. Instead, this paper presents and applies sustainable discounted utilitarianism (SDU). ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
I oppgaven forsøker jeg å finne svar på om myndighetene bør legge avgift på usunne mat- og drikkevarer, og om dagens norske avgiftsordning for slike varer bør endres. Dagens avgiftssystem på usunne matvarer er primært ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Private husholdninger står for 30 % av Norges totale elektrisitetsforbruk. Kunnskap om hva som påvirker husholdningenes elektrisitetsforbruk er dermed viktig for å kunne anslå framtidens elektrisitetsbehov. Denne oppgaven ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Civil wars do not only generate high death tolls, but also significantly affect the general population at large. Studies show that the effect of conflict on health is particularly large in civil wars and pertains over time. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Klimaendringar er ei av dei viktigaste utfordringane verda står ovanfor. Mykje av den økonomiske utviklinga vi har sett etter den industrielle revolusjonen har vori mogleg takka vera at vi lærte å utnytte fossile energikjelder. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
We introduce the two-sex net reproduction rate (2SNRR) and the two-sex total fertility rate (2STFR)—two demographic indicators that reflect the number of children born, given age specific fertility and mortality of the ...
The Relations between male and female total fertility rates Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
In this paper, my main purpose is to find out the relations between male total fertility rates and female total fertility rates. The basic idea of doing such a research is from the previous researches available, from which ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Målet med denne oppgaven er å finne ut om sammenhengen mellom kvinners og menns utdanningsnivå og deres sannsynlighet for å gifte seg har endret seg over tid i Norge. Sagt på en annen måte: har fallet i ekteskapsraten vært ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Hovedformålet med denne oppgaven var å undersøke om det er noen sammenheng mellom dødeligheten og det å jobbe mye mens man har små barn. Arbeidsinntekt ble brukt som et mål på arbeidstid. Datamaterialet består av norske ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
When governments apply high tax rates targeted at natural resource rent, there must be generous deductions in order to avoid investment disincentives. How generous is disputed. Based on standard finance theory and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
I consider a society with heterogeneous individuals who can form organizations for the production of a differentiated public good. A decentralized arrangement of organizations is said to be split‐up stable whenever there ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
In this thesis, I have examined how Norwegian prices on various consumption goods and services differ from the prices in other wealthy countries in Europe. The goal has been to find out how expensive it actually is to live ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Lodde er en fisk som lever langs kysten av Nord-Norge og i Barentshavet. Den er viktig for artsmangfoldet i disse områdene. Fiske og havbruk har vært, og er en viktig næring langs den norske kysten. Loddebestanden har ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Denne oppgaven er et forsøk på å gi en oversikt over, samt belyse hva, de reelle tildelingskriteriene er, og hvordan disse settes opp mot hverandre. Videre søker oppgaven å avklare hvorvidt enkelte av myndighetens delmål ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
In this thesis the Austrian business cycle theory is analyzed. Based on the work of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1959[1889]), Knut Wicksell (1962[1898]) and Ludwig von Mises (1953[1912]), the theory was further developed and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Forskjeller i helse og dødelighet etter sosioøkonomisk status er grundig dokumentert. Felles for disse studiene er resultater som viser at mennesker med høy sosioøkonomisk status har bedre helse og lavere dødelighet enn ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Oppgaven har to hensikter. Den første er å analysere langsiktige virkninger for Norge av et permanent høyere avkastningskrav på internasjonale investeringer. Dette gjøres både analytisk innenfor en stilisert modell og ved ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Spørsmålet jeg ønsker å belyse i denne oppgaven er om finanskrisen er et resultat av sentralbankenes ”lavrentepolitikk”. Det er hevdet av enkelte økonomer at sentralbankenes lave renter i årene før finanskrisens utbrudd ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Formålet med denne oppgaven er å undersøke effekten av ekteskapelig status og tid siden endringer i ekteskapelig status for dødeligheten i Norge. Med registerdata for hele Norges befolkning i alderen 40-89 år i perioden ...
Accounting for Secular Movement of China s Saving and Investment Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
This paper provides an accounting exercise for the secular movement of China s saving and investment and explores how its saving and investment can be evolved in the decades ahead. To this end, we calibrate the Neoclassical ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2008)
This master thesis studies the impact of preferential tax treatment of housing property on capital accumulation and household portfolio choices in a model economy which is calibrated to Norwegian data. The current the tax ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Etterkrigslitteraturen rundt valutaunioner dreier seg i høy grad om den europeiske monetære unionen. Denne oppgaven utforsker den første helt grunnleggende debatten rundt valuta-unioner på 1960- og 1970-tallet. Oppgaven ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Following the relatively high levels of inflation in the 1970’s and early 1980’s, lowering the rate of inflation became a stated goal of many central banks from the first part of the 1980’s and onwards. Even so, having an ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Konkurranse og anbud i lokal rutebiltransport
Anbud har gradvis blitt tatt i bruk i Norge fra 1994. Dette har fått konsekvenser for konkurransesituasjonen i lokal rutebiltransport. Tidligere løyveområder er samlet til ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Kapittel 1 består av innledning og gir bakgrunn for problemstilling. Her avgrenses oppgavens omfang. Metoden som blir brukt i oppgaven blir presentert.
I kapittel 2 blir kraftsystemet sammensetning og dets komponenter ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Hovedformålet med denne masteroppgaven er å undersøke forekomsten av en empirisk sammenheng mellom aksjemarkedsindeks og makrovariabler i et velutviklet aksjemarked og et framvoksende marked representert ved henholdsvis ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2009)
Entreprenörskap och innovationer för hållbar utveckling – Swedish Economic Forum Report 2009: http://entreprenorskapsforum.se/swe/?page_id=2089
Fleksibel inflasjonsstyring : Estimering av Norges Banks reaksjonsmønster i perioden 2001(4)-2010(3)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Riksbanken i Sverige ble som første sentralbank i verden opprettet i 1668 for å bistå de svenske kongene med finansiering av krig mot ytre fiender. Sentralbanken i England, ”The Bank of England”, ble opprettet i 1694 i ...
Identity Economics and the Sámi pastoralism sector : A survey among Sámi pastoralists in the Karasjok region in Eastern Finnmark Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The Sámi pastoralism sector is getting bigger in Norway, while the farming sector has experienced a massive decline from 1960-2011. The aim in this thesis is to look at causes for this trend in the Sámi pastoralism sector. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The financial accelerator theory states that when credit market frictions of asymmetric information are present, the effects of small shocks on real economic activity are being propagated and amplified through time. In the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Vi står overfor globale forurensingsproblemer! Håndteringen av miljøproblematikken er omfattende og mye omdiskutert. Det er spesielt ytret bekymring knyttet til at land fører ulik miljøpolitikk og at dette vil påvirke lands ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Oppgaven er skrevet med det formål å lage et prognoseverktøy for byggenæringen til å fremskrive nyinvesteringer i industribygg på tre års sikt. Initiativet til problemstillingen ligger hos forfatteren og Kjell Senneset i ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This is a study searching for proof of universal patterns of structural change in the process of development. More specifically what is pursued answered is: Is there a universal pattern of structural change, so that at a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
I oppgaven prøver jeg å finne straffetrusselens allmennpreventive virkning. Dette vill si at en økt sannsynlighet for å bli tatt etter å ha begått en kriminell handling vill redusere antall kriminell handlinger i samfunnet. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
This thesis addresses the possible solutions to control demand and supply of water for a sustainable environment in Mexico, along with a detailed analyses of economic implications related to the water sector. At the same ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
I re-estimate a baseline conflict model presented by Ross (2012), by using a logit model. Whereas Ross (2012) examines the relationship between oil income per capita and civil war, I examine the relationship between fuel ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The current and future funding of elderly care is an important issue for national budgets. The demand for care will increase vastly due to the ageing population. At the same time, the number of informal caregivers ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
What determines the relative power of opposed groups? Power, in the sense of the ability to impose one's own preferred outcome, is often treated as an exogenous property that actors simply "have" or "do not have", but it ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis investigates how yearly occupational mobility has developed in Norway between the years 1972 and 2015. It also analyses the characteristics of workers that experienced the most occupational switches, and control ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Exhaustible resources, like oil and gas, play an important strategic role in the world economy. Almost 30 years of oil domination, has resulted in acceptance of oil as a prime commodity in the transport sector, and has not ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The impact of alcohol consumption on the social and economic environment is a topic of fierce debate in many countries. As usually the only legally distributed leisure drug, production, sales and even consumption of alcohol ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Diskusjonen omkring boligpriser i Norge har en tendens til å neglisjere at det nasjonale boligmarkedet er et aggregat av mange delmarkeder. Denne oppgaven retter søkelyset på regionale forskjeller i bestemmelsen av ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
I denne oppgaven har jeg studert endringene i investeringsnivået i norsk petroleumssektor, og driverne bak disse svingningene. Med tidsseriedata fra 1981 til 2013 bruker jeg en feiljusteringsmodell for å forklare effekten ...
Corruption, Decentralization and Press Freedom: A case study of China Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Boligmarkedet utgjør en stor del av norsk økonomi som skaper mye engasjement og debatt. Boliger selges i det åpne markedet og variasjonen i prisene kan være stor. Det er mange egenskaper ved en bolig som er avgjørende for ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
EØS-avtalens fire friheter endret rammevilkårene for norsk økonomi, men etterfølgende utspilte seg først i etterkant av EU-utvidelsen i 2004. Denne oppgaven tar for seg veksten i arbeidskraftstilbudet til Norge som følge ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
En stadig eldre befolkning trekkes ofte frem som en av de viktigste utfordringene for offentlige finanser de neste tiårene (Holmøy, Kjelvik og Strøm, 2014). Mens økningen i antall eldre i dag i stor grad kommer av variasjoner ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Denne oppgaven analyserer den økonomiske utviklingen i Venezuela fra 1960-tallet og frem til i dag. Basert på to viktige hypoteser innenfor utviklingsøkonomi, ressursforbannelsen og institusjonsforbannelsen, stilles det ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Estimating the effects of immigration in a production function framework. Evidence from OECD countries. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Is immigration a burden or a benefit to host countries? This issue can be studied by looking at how the economic components of the receiving country’s output are affected. Based on the methods of Ortega and Peri (2009) and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Birth masculinization in China since 1980s has drawn much attentions of scholars as well as politicians. As in many other Asian countries, there have been consistently more boys born than girls in China. Given the huge ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis seeks to address how political risk influences investment in the agricultural sector in Norway. The agricultural sector is a particularly interesting case as it is highly affected by governmental intervention. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) stated in 1992 that developed countries should take the lead in combating the adverse effects of climate change, contributing more to global emission ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
International student migration to Norway has markedly increased during the past 20 years. This inflow has caused the Norwegian authorities to shed light on the topic. Until 2001, it was expected from the Norwegian authorities ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Artiklene i denne avhandlingen viser at politiske tiltak ikke alltid har de ønskede konsekvensene.
Hvordan påvirker bistand støtten til statsledere? I det første kapittelet, finner jeg og medforfatter Andreas Kotsadam at ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
In this thesis, we explore three aspects of the RMB’s equilibrium exchange rate. First, what is the appropriate definition of the equilibrium exchange rate? We argue that the Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate (BEER) ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Det er 165 millioner kortvokste barn i verden i dag, og 57.2 millioner av disse lever i Afrika sør for Sahara (UNICEF, 2013). Kortvoksthet har alvorlige konsekvenser på individuelt nivå og kan svekke et lands humankapital ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
With a growing focus on macroprudential policy in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007/2008, there is a need for early warning systems. The object of the thesis is to present a toolbox for signaling systemic banking ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
By replicating earlier research in convergence theory, this thesis is seen as complement by applying updated data to different approaches. I will present the results by Baumol (1986), De Long (1988), Barro (1991) and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This paper presents an operational definition of technology transfer, to be applied in studies of technology transfer in projects under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Although the CDM has never ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Det kan unektelig være gevinster knyttet til internasjonal handel. Dette er konklusjonen i alle de tradisjonelle handelsteoriene. Internasjonal handel gjør ”kaka” større. Ved at land utnytter sine komparative fortrinn, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
The relationship between certain indicators of environmental quality and income, which in some cases has shows an inverted-U relationship, has been called The Environmental Kuznets Curve. The implications of this relationship ...
Impact of pension system on personal savings in China Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
In recent years, China s economic growth has triggered off a lot of attentions from other countries. The personal saving rate has increased sharply, and it is now at a really high level compared with saving behavior with ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Jeg har i denne oppgaven undersøkt effekter av egenkapitalkrav på gjelds- og boligprisveksten i Norge. Som det for meg er bekjent, er det ikke gjort liknende undersøkelser om dette på norske data tidligere, og resultatene ...
Access to Finance: Funding Ecosystem for Start-ups in China Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis focuses on the topic of funding ecosystem for start-ups in China. The number of newly-registered enterprises in China has surged in the last decade. The developing evolution of start-ups is the reflection of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
World trade today is fragmented, and compared to conventional statistics trade in value added provides a better measure on the value created in a country from trade. This because conventional statistics are subject to a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Fordelingsvirkningene av pensjonsreformen varierer med om de måles over et tverrsnitt av befolkningen, for en generasjon i et gitt år, eller over livsløpet. Resultatene fra fordelingsanalysene i denne masteroppgaven viser ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Finansielle institusjoners hovedoppgave er å effektivt allokere kapital i samfunnet. To faktorer er avgjørende for at denne prosessen skal maksimere sosialt overskudd; konkurranse og informasjonsinnsamling. Begge disse ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Throughout modern history many different approaches to financial regulation have been tried. However, as the recent financial crisis of 2007 demonstrated, the existing rules and regulations were not enough to prevent a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Hensikten med oppgaven er å svare på om det offentlige bør la private parkeringsselskaper tilby parkeringsplasser, eller om de bør tilby dem selv. I de største byene i Norge er det en stor variasjon i andel kommunalt eide ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2008)
An Increase in temperature and reduction in precipitation beyond the ideal threshold undermines agricultural productivity which is likely to be worse in the tropics due to vulnerability of the agricultural systems to climate ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
By the use of econometric methods and a panel of nine Central-Eastern Europe countries (CEE-9), this thesis analyzes the effect of existing limits on loan-to-value (LTV) ratio on housing prices and, and at the same time, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Dagens norske skattesystem består av ulike skatter og avgifter. Skatter har to hovedfunksjoner: de finansierer velferdsstaten, og er et verktøy brukt til omfordeling av ressurser fra dem som har mye til dem som har lite. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Generisk bytte ble innført i Norge i 2001, som en del av den nye apotekloven. Ordningen åpner for at apotekene kan levere ut et billigere legemiddel med samme virkestoff som det rekvirerte, der et slikt alternativ finnes.
Jeg ...
How does Azerbaijan exploit its Natural Resource Revenues? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Resource management has been an important area of development economics for the last few decades as, a growing number of countries to large extent have relied on natural resource rent. These resources, namely, oil and later ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Disability Insurance (DI) programs have long been criticized for their apparent work disincentives. As such, there has been a large debate of whether individuals on DI receipt are capable of work. In this thesis, I provide ...