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)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)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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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)The welfare state has been heavily debated in recent years. Should we roll back the spendings of the welfare state or not? Most of the focus has been on whether the welfare state improves or erodes overall efficiency in ...
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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 ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)Regulating an export firm (or a homogeneous industry) with private information about emission technology is analysed, when the firm, owned partly by foreigners, has an option to bypass domestic regulation through costly ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)Networks play an important role in the modern economy. It enters almost every area of the economy such as transportation, telecommunication, information, and electricity, and so on. Some networks grow very fast. For instance, ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)Drug abuse inflicts considerable harm on users, non-using persons and on society, and a variety of means to curtail consumption of illegal drugs have been adopted. The consumption of drugs differ from consumption of most ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)From a detailed study of the yearly wage bargaining rounds in Norway and Sweden, we construct time series of five complemetary coordination indices. Econometrics is used to evaluate the importance of the coordination ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)In an important paper, Fuhrer and Moore (1995) showed that Taylor (1980)’s staggered wage setting model does not exhibit persistence in inflation; they proposed a simple modification, in which workers cared about the real ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)In Zimbabwe due to the skewed distribution of land in favour of the large-scale commercial farmers the topic on land redistribution has always been high on agenda since the country gained its Independence. The major arguments ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)The effects of a changing age distribution on Norwegian aggregate consumption are analysed in this dissertation. This is done by estimating a consumption function which controls for age structure effects. Both multivariate ...
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Errors in survey based quality evaluation variables in efficiency models of primary care physicians (Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)Efficiency analyses in the health care sector are often criticised for not incorporating quality variables. The definition of quality of primary health care has many aspects, and it is inevitably also a question of the ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)Policies to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 will affect the rate and pattern of technological change in alternative energy resources and other production processes. Imperfections in markets for non-polluting ...