Browsing Økonomisk institutt by Issue Date
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 1993)Er det faktisk mulig at en jevn fordeling stimulerer økonomisk vekst? I denne hovedoppgaven drøftes muligheten først med utgangspunkt i økonomisk teori. Deretter drøftes hvordan en egalitær fordeling kan ha bidratt til ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2000)Oppgaven diskuterer hvordan norsk bistand og utviklingshjelp påvirker korrupsjonsnivået i samarbeidslandene. Fokuset er på NORADs prioriterte samarbeidsland i den sørlige delen av Afrika. Disse landene er Malawi, Zambia, ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2000)Norge er en liten åpen økonomi med betydelige oljeinntekter og oljereserver. Endringer i oljepris og valutakursfluktasjoner kan gi store utslag i økonomien. Det er derfor viktig med kunnskap om valutakursdannelse. Siden ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2000)Evaluation of the performance of investment managers is a much studied problem in finance, but results of studies the last thirty years have constantly been revised. Do managers of actively managed portfolios actually add ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2000)I denne oppgaven ønsket jeg å teste hvorvidt hypotesen om effisiente markeder (engelsk: efficient market hypothesis , EMH) holder for det norske aksjemarkedet i perioden 1955-1999. Teorien sto meget sterkt i finansmiljøer ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)Empirical and theoretical studies suggest that employment behaviour varies with the state of the labour market since hiring and Þrings costs depend on the availability of labour. Extending earlier empirical work on this ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)Using a computable equilibrium model, we examine the short-run effects of a radical liberalisation of the West European natural gas and electricity markets. In each model country, oil, gas, coal and electricity are produced, ...
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How is Generalized Least Squares related to within and between estimators in unbalanced panel data? (Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)How will the commitment to price stability affect labour market rigidities in the European Monetary Union? I explore a model where firms choose between fixed wage contracts (where the employer cannot lay off the worker, ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)We seek to explain why TV advertising is dominated by a few product categories. We apply a model of the TV industry that encompasses both the product markets and the market for TV viewers to discuss who will advertise on ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)Parents inuence their children's adult outcomes through economic and genetic endowments, transmission of cultural values and social skills, and through choice of residential location. Using a variance decomposition framework ...
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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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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)We use Norwegian micro-data to identify the driving forces behind unemployment spells following temporary- and permanent dismissals. The duration of unemployment spells for permanently dismissed workers is primarily explained ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)In most models of transboundary pollution, lack of international cooperation does not cause any inefficiency within each country. The paper shows that this result is only valid in the hypothetical case of no international ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new regimes for electricity distributors. A sample of large electricity distribution utilities from Denmark, ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)The bulk of acid depositions, which have harmful effects on the environment, are caused by foreign emissions in many European countries. Therefore, if some countries emit more acids, one cannot be sure that countries that ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)In this thesis, a model of bankruptcy prediction conditional on financial statements is presented. In addition to financial ratios which captures the aspects of liquidity, solidity and profitability a list of supplementary ...