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(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 ...
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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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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)Aksjeselskaper står kontinuerlig overfor valg mellom ulike investeringsprosjekter og hvordan disse skal finansieres. I prinsippet kan finansiering av investeringsprosjekter skje ved opptak av lån, nyemittering av aksjer, ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)Oppgaven tar for seg årsaker og virkninger av det interne migrasjonsforholdet i Vietnam, og hvilke tiltak myndighetene kan foreta seg for å bidra til en økonomisk utvikling. For å belyse forholdet deles oppgaven i en ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)Maritime economics is the study of how shipping market is organized and how it works. The global economy relies heavily on maritime transport. Suffice it to say that, in Europe only, 90% of the trade with third countries ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)Theory of strategic trade policy is an important component of the new trade theory. It argues that trade policies can be employed by governments for strategic reasons, such as export promotion and rent-shifting. However, ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)In this dissertation I develop an empirical model for fiscal policy in Norway. An important feature of the methodology is to derive and model the changes in the primary budget balance that comes from changes in the economy ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)Networks play an important role in the modern economy. It enters almost every area of the economy such as transportation, telecommunication, information, and electricity, and so on. Some networks grow very fast. For instance, ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)En av de største globale truslene vi står ovenfor i dag, er at vår økonomiske aktivitet skal føre til global oppvarming. Menneskeskapte utslipp av klimagasser, avskoging o.l. fører til merkbare klimaendringer. Klimaendringene ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)Discrete-time hazard models for first- and higher-order births are estimated from DHS data for 22 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the 1990s. It is found that, among women with the same number of completed years of ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)From a detailed study of the yearly wage bargaining rounds in Norway and Sweden, we construct time series of five complemetary coordination indices. Econometrics is used to evaluate the importance of the coordination ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)In an important paper, Fuhrer and Moore (1995) showed that Taylor (1980)’s staggered wage setting model does not exhibit persistence in inflation; they proposed a simple modification, in which workers cared about the real ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)From a CAPM-type model the cost of equity is derived for a …rm operating under various foreign tax systems. The …rm’s shares are traded in a market which is una¤ected by these systems. The cost of capital depends on the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)EU åpnet for utvidelsesforhandlinger med 6 tidligere østblokk land i 1998, blant andre Polen, og inkluderte 6 nye i forhandlingene året etter. Det er interessant å fokusere på Polen, ettersom det er det mest folkerike av ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)Oppgavens formål er å undersøke omfanget av skatte- og avgiftsunndragelser i forbindelse med konkurser og videre studere mulige årsaker til dette omfanget. Oppgaven er avgrenset til å se på bevisste og planlagte skatte- ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)We present a stated-preference study where values of statistical lives (VSL) are derived both as public and private goods, and we distinguish between three different death causes, heart disease, environmentally related ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)The RAINS model is used to calculate cost minimising abatement policies subject to European-wide spatial restrictions on pollution. The principle for choosing environmental targets for the 1994 Oslo Protocol was closing a ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)As crime becomes increasingly widespread it may be optimal not to lower but to increase the standard of evidence. Even though a higher standard of evidence results in a lower expected penalty for all levels of crime, it ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)Despite the complex environmental regulation system established during the last ten years environmental situation in Russia tends to be negative. The main reason of Russian environmental regulation inefficiency is enforcement ...