Browsing Økonomisk institutt by Title
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Estimates of poverty in India are crucial inputs for the understanding of world poverty, yet there is much disagreement about the numbers and the legitimacy of methods used to derive them. In this paper, we propose and ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)We believe that what most authors have in mind when referring to the “most redistributive country” is a tax/transfer schedule that is most redistributive across all pre‐tax/transfer income distributions. To measure each ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract This paper introduces a theory-based equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers, which justifies comparison of distributions of extended income (cash income plus the value of public services) between European ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2017)I derive the polar representation of Fieller's estimation of confidence sets for ratios and construct a polar plot of the test statistics for all angles associated with the ratios. This procedure helps in visualizing and ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Over the past decade, the question of whether and, in the event, how to tax household wealth has risen to the forefront of policy debates across the world. As Norway belongs to only a handful of countries that (still) levy ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)This paper estimates peer effects originating from the ability composition of tutorial groups for undergraduate students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range of support, and assigned ...
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(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. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This thesis study whether public fast charging infrastructure drives battery electric vehicle adoption in Norway. The analysis is based on annual information on public fast charging stations and the battery electric vehicle ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Summary A key stylised fact in international macroeconomics is that the real exchange rate is highly volatile and exhibits, at best, a slow rate of convergence towards a constant long-run equilibrium. Fluctuations in the ...
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(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 ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)I study optimal carbon taxation in an analytic quantitative integrated assessment model (IAM) that links IAM components, parametric assumptions, and calibration approaches directly to their policy impacts. I show how ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)This paper studies the effects of a reduction in the countercyclical capital buffer requirements on interest rate growth in Norway. For the first time since the implementation of Basel III framework the new macroprudential ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)China’s aggregate economic activity has increased and the national economy has developed rapidly since the reform and opening-up policy was carried out after 1978. The GDP growth rate has kept over 10 percent since 2004. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)The Norwegian laundry detergent market is highly concentrated. Throughout the history of industry, Lilleborg, has had an almost monopolistic position in the market with only a few competitors, and none of comparable size. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)From being a small scale producer of opium, the Afghan drug industry has grown dramatically during the last three decades. According to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) the Afghan production now accounts ...