Browsing Økonomisk institutt by Title
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)We consider a principal who faces many identical competitors, and who can distribute a prize fund over two consecutive contests. The winner of contest one gains an advantage in contest two where his effort is more productive ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Gasellebedrifter utgjør rundt to til fire prosent av den samlede foretaksmassen i Norge, og spiller en viktig rolle for å skape vekst og arbeidsplasser. I oppgaven presenterer jeg en Putty-Clay modell som viser at fremveksten ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in developing countries, rural women act as a keystone of small-scale agriculture and daily family subsistence. The recognition of their crucial ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Risk aversion is a concept in economics of how people behave when they are exposed to uncertain outcomes. The concept of being risk averse is defined as the propensity to prefer an offer with an expected lower but more ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)In this thesis I investigate the gender gap in the discouragement effect of losing. I analyse data from the Abel competition, which is an advanced mathematical competition for upper secondary students in Norway. Girls have ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)The data set used in my research was collected by the National Bureau of Statistics (SSB) for the years 1998-2003 and constitutes a representative sample of Norwegian households. Income data is obtained from different ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)The present thesis examines the factors that impact the gender wage gap in Norway. To achieve this objective, the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method was employed. At first, I try to obtain a comprehensive understanding ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)This dissertation consists of five essays on how gendered outcomes change when stressors put pressure on resources in Sub-Saharan Africa. Three essays consider how deviations in rainfall from what is normally observed in ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This thesis employs a model of household utility to formalize the following hypothesis: Households of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Colombia with higher levels of gender inequality are displaced later than those ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)We present a new version of the overtaking criterion, which we call generalized timeinvariant overtaking. The generalized time-invariant overtaking criterion (on the space of infinite utility streams) is defined by extending ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)This dissertation contributes to our understanding of intergenerational mobility and its determinants from a variety of perspectives. By examining the effects of maternal exposure and inheritance on children, and how ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)Bowhead whales is an endangered species but they are still hunted by Inuits. How to protect the endangered species and at the same time fulfill people’s need is an important topic in economics. Resource economics and Welfare ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)Sammendrag Utgangspunktet for hovedoppgaven var opprinnelig min deltagelse i et gentrifiseringsprosjekt som tar for seg planlegging og utvikling i bydel Gamle Oslo. Min oppgave i ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Det norske kraftmarkedet preges til tider av store nasjonale prisforskjeller. Spesielt har kraftprisene i Midt- og Nord-Norge vært høyere enn kraftprisene i resten av landet i årene 2007 til 2011. Økende kraftpriser og ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)In this paper, we basically made efforts to answer 3 questions: (1)What is the geographic distribution of human capital in China? (2) How the regional differences of human capital change over time? (3) What are the main ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)De siste tiårene har det vært en voldsom vekst i utenlandske direkteinvesteringer (FDI). Med dette utviklet det seg et økende ønske fra investorer om et bedre juridisk rammeverk for å sikre investeringene. Dette har i all ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Denne oppgaven har som mål å avdekke hvordan innføring av strengere energikrav til nye boliger påvirker prisene på nye boliger. Det fokuseres hovedsakelig på overgangen fra TEK97 (byggteknisk forskrift av 1997) til TEK07 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)Blir nordmenn påvirket av fattigdom og knapphet på penger ved at økonomiske bekymringer opptar tanker og kognitiv kapasitet? Denne oppgaven undersøker hvorvidt relativt fattige personer scorer dårligere på oppgaver brukt ...
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(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 ...