Browsing Økonomisk institutt by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)The starting point of the discussion, provided in the present paper, has been the presence of size - dependent tax policy in Norway. In local settings, entrepreneurs with a turnover less than NOK 50 000 in the previous 12 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)This thesis investigates the relationship between violent conflicts and school enrollment using panel data on province level in Afghanistan between 2008 and 2017. The hypothesis of the thesis is that school enrollment is ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)This thesis presents a simple electricity market model designed to calculate the effect of increased transmission capacity between Norway and Germany, and Norway and the UK, on the electricity market in the Nordic countries. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)I investigate the impact of assignment to copayment on demand for consultations with general practitioners, for Norwegian individuals at age 16. In addition to study the overall change in demand, I study how the estimated ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This paper analyzes the employment dynamics of households in the U.S. during 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on couples’ behavior, the empirical analysis uses data from the Current Population Survey ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)This dissertation investigates the effects of earnings announcements on the bid-ask spread in the stock market. The purpose of this investigation is to see how earnings announcements affect the dead-weight loss of trading ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)The large variation in the amount of government redistribution in democracies is a much discussed subject in modern economics, and the effect of income inequality on redistribution lies at the core of the debate. Meltzer ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Due to the aging of the population, the demand for care will continue to increase. The scope of informal care in this context is substantial. Previous literature has found that individuals in Norway facing extensive care ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)The current and future funding of elderly care is an important issue for national budgets. The demand for care will increase vastly due to the ageing population. At the same time, the number of informal caregivers ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Most studies on poverty are based solely on a cash income definition. Smeeding et al. (1993) suggest a possible explanation for this when stating: "The problems inherent in the measurement, valuation and imputation of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)There is not much conclusive evidence on conditions for female genital cutting to decline. Relying on data from the Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys, I study whether increased educational attainment for a sample of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)According to Lund (2011), when depreciation deductions are taken into account, the after-tax cost of capital depends on the specific taxation rules. The commonly used WACC method fails to recognize the effects of taxation ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)In this thesis I estimate the dynamic effects of three types of terms of trade shocks to the Norwegian economy: a world demand shock, an oil price shock and a globalization shock. Furthermore, the analysis seeks to evaluate ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)The aim of this thesis was to examine to what extent Norwegian export to China was affected by the sanctions China imposed on Norway following the Nobel Peace Prize award to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in 2010. The thesis ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)On June 21, 2000, Israel and the member states of the European Union (EU) signed a trade agreement for products from Israel to be imported into the EU-countries at a preferential tariff rate. Theoretically, this agreement ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)The aim of this thesis is to assess the possible effects of Vietnam’s accession to the World Trade Organization on its bilateral trade. In order to accomplish this, I employed an augmented gravity equation and used a panel ...