Norges Bank has been delegated the task of contributing to a steady growth of the Norwegian economy by keeping inflation low and stable. The goal is to keep the yearly growth in consumer prices at 2.5 percent in the medium ...

The objective of this thesis has been to account for trade theories and their predictions, especially concerning intra-industry trade, trade within one industry. A secondary objective has been to account for European ...

What motivations lies behind saving behavior is an important question in economics. Understanding saving behavior is for example necessary in order to explain wealth inequality. By and larger there are three main motivations ...

This thesis aims to analyse the impact of software piracy on competition between a non-free proprietary type of software and a free/open-source type of software. In pursuing this, I use a model inspired by Besley et al. ...

I 2005 vedtok Stortinget at det skulle gjennomføres en svært omfattende reform av Norges velferdssystem. Aetat, trygdeetaten og deler av sosialtjenesten skulle slås sammen til én felles etat, NAV. De 457 planlagte NAV-kontorene ...

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the direct effect on Norwegian exports of a hypothetical disbandment of the euro area. This is done by looking at what happened to Norwegian exports when the euro was introduced in ...

This paper presents a distributional argument for the use of supply-side climate policies whereby carbon emissions are controlled through (i) depletion quotas or (ii) permanent confiscation of a fraction of the in situ ...

Hva kjennetegner og kan forklare organisasjonstenkningen og implementeringen av Kunnskapsløftet? Dette er oppgavens problemstilling. Jeg har lagt til grunn at jeg gjennom å studere Kunnskapsløftets kontekst, utforming og ...

Aim: When the duration of therapy is not preset and the outcome is a matter for negotiation, the decision to end psychotherapy will be an experiential concern for the two participants. This case study draws attention to ...

Denne oppgaven handler om forholdet mellom statlig styring og kommunalt selvstyre i arealplanlegging. Innsigelsesinstituttet er et statlig styringsmiddel som skal sikre at den nasjonale politikken følges opp lokalt, og ...