Browsing Økonomisk institutt by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)I et felteksperiment hos Norges Automobil forbund (NAF) studeres effektene av å endre utformingen av en rabatt de gir sine medlemmer. Hovedformålet er å teste om rabattformen har en effekt på sannsynligheten for at medlemmer ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)In the preceding chapters I have given an account of why Racoon Bags failed as a bag producer in Bangalore. I have argued that the most important factor distinguishing failure from success is the productivity in the factory. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Access to relevant information in an understandable manner is highly important for decision makers in order to arrive at well-founded collective decisions, which might have far-reaching consequences, such as exposure to ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This paper investigates the effects of robots on labour demand at the firm level in the Norwegian manufacturing industry from 2003 to 2016. Labour demand is proxied by the wage shares of different worker groups within a ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)It is well known that consumption patterns change with income. Relative price changes would therefore affect rich and poor consumers differently. Yet, the standard price indices are not income-specific, and hence, they ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Scholars have grappled with the question of how parties affect policy. Here I propose and test an instrumental variable approach using rainfall. In Norwegian municipal elections, potential left wing voters are likely to ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract Rank-based measures of intergenerational mobility are generally justified by their invariance to changes in inequality. However, I show that whenever the source of inequality is uncorrelated to parent ranks, such ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)When evaluating well‐being streams in an anonymous manner, one faces a dilemma between, on the one hand, assigning dictatorship to a single worst‐off individual and thus succumbing to a tyranny of non‐aggregation and, on ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Second-degree dominance has become a widely accepted criterion for ordering distribution functions according to social welfare. However, it provides only a partial ordering, and it may fail to rank distributions that ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)The Nordic countries score high on most measures of economic and social performance. Centralised bargaining giving a compressed wage structure across firms has been proposed as a key source to this success. A paper by ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Looking at the Current Account balances of the Eurozone, one might draw the conclusion that the Eurozone is running a sustainable Current Account balance. The Eurozone is however made up of sovereign nations where the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Using different econometric approaches and based on a panel of 21 OECD countries this thesis investigate whether differences in structural or policy factors significantly affects the price responsiveness of shocks to demand ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)Tonje Lauritzen Realtidsproblemet: Kan ex-post revisjoner i økonomiske nøkkeltall gi systematiske skjevheter i vurderingen av pengepolitikken? Sammendrag: Jeg ønsker i min hovedoppgave å se på hvordan revisjoner i ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Do reciprocal preferences matter for participation in international environmental agreements? Combining the two canonical models of Barrett (2003) and Rabin (1993), I find that 1) the empty coalition is always stable; 2) ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this paper, we discuss electricity market design in Europe in light of the 2021-23 energy crisis, drawing on several of our Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) reports. We outline the relevant theoretical background ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)This thesis has revisited the role of union membership, collective agreements and establishment union density for wage levels and dispersion in the period 2004-2011. To investigate the wage effect from these three covariates, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)This study is aimed to estimate the total recreational value of water improvement in Lake Wuliangsuhai, Inner Mongolia, China. In our study, we combine travel cost method (TCM) and contingent valuation method (CVM) to fill ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the effect on GDP growth in the euro area from the non-standard measures introduced by the ECB in response to the financial crisis in late 2008, using a method for counterfactual ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)