Browsing Økonomisk institutt by Title
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)Abstract The aim of this thesis is to investigate the extent to which Norwegian products encounter trade barriers in foreign markets; to measure the relative frequency and severity with which barriers occur; and explore ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)Is innovation accelerating more in liberalizing countries compared to non-liberalizing countries? This thesis investigates the relationship between trade liberalization and innovation globally by using data on mean tariff ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)According to common sense, China’s exports to Norway should be the same as Norway’s imports from China. However, if we look at the data reported by China and Norway, we find a huge gap. Comparing reported exports and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Cod from the Barents Sea, which is shared with Russia, is of cultural and economic importance to Norway. How should the resource be harvested to maximize its economic gain? Which implications has a non-cooperative exploitation ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)In my thesis I look at the experiences of the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) after the fall of communism and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The main weight is put on exploring the choices taken when ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)In this thesis, I look at transparency in theory and practice in Norges Bank and the Riksbank, and compare the two banks’ transparency policy, with a particular focus at transparency regarding the monetary policy meeting ...
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Transportation of natural gas : The impact of price variation on the choice between LNG and pipeline infrastructureRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)The long-distance transportation of natural gas, either in the form of liquefied natural gas (LNG) or by pipeline, is of great importance for both exporting and importing countries. Exporting countries depend on the revenue ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)Ved hjelp av aktsomhetskart og skadeberegninger analyseres flomrisiko som følge klimaendringer for Trondheim Spektrum i et hydrologisk og samfunnsøkonomisk perspektiv. Trondheim Spektrum er en arena for sport, næringsliv ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Historically, is has been common to use a so called general social survey (GSS) to investigate trust. Naturally, there are many ways to go about in order to measure the trust of someone. The GSS approach is to simply ask ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the armed forces. Soldiers are randomly assigned to rooms with or without ethnic minorities. At the end of ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)In the introduction, I have stated the motivation for the model I will present in this thesis; trust is an important economic asset and may be vital to industrialization, which in turn is crucial for successful development ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This thesis aims to measure the returns to education for females in Nepal. By using newly acquired household data from the Demographic and Health Survey of 2022, I examine how the household ownership of welfare goods ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)We propose a model that reconciles two aspects of social capital: social capital as reciprocal sharing of favors within a selected group vs. social capital as trust that lubricates transactions in societies. The core ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)The aim of this paper is to analyze a two-country version of the Alvarez and Lucas (2007) model. In this model, each country has two production sectors with constant-return-to-scale: an intermediate goods sector and a final ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper develops a multicountry model of international trade that provides a simple microfoundation for buyer-seller relationships in trade. We explore a rich data set that identifies buyers and sellers in trade and ...