Do people try to avoid unpleasant information about the environmental consequences of their actions? If so, do they react with hostility towards others who provide the unwanted information? Fearing such hostility, do others ...

This paper analyzes a game in which countries repeatedly make emission and technology investment decisions. We derive the best equilibrium, that is, the Pareto-optimal subgame-perfect equilibrium, when countries are ...

World population in the year 2000 was 6.09 billion, according to recent estimates by the United Nations (UN 2005). This number is almost 410 million lower than the year 2000-estimate that the UN expected in 1973. The UN ...

I estimate the short-term effect of customer service chatbots on affected employment in Norwegian municipalities. To do this, I use a dynamic diff-in-diff estimator, which takes into account that the municipalities implemented ...

I denne oppgaven studerer jeg det norske arbeidsmarkedet i perioden 2004-2013 og undersøker hvorvidt endrede arbeidsvilkår (deltidsarbeid, midlertidige ansettelser, bruk av bemanningsbyrå) er et aspekt ved jobbpolarisering. ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker effektene før og etter utvidelsen av Panamakanalen for variablene antall skip gjennom kanalen, størrelsen på skipene og handelsvolumet. Som følge av en økende etterspørsel globalt, har skipsstørrelsene ...

Abstract Quality and reliable energy has been proven to be necessary and important for a high-quality life and for social and economic development. The United Nations sees reliable energy as a crucial area in the millennium ...

This thesis focuses on studying of interpersonal trust level and industry delegation intensity. It explores how interpersonal social trust level favours the value added, exports, and the firm size in the delegation intensity ...

In this thesis I study the role of incentive pay when workers have career concerns. That is, workers have concerns about how their current performance affects employers’ perception about their ability and consequently their ...

Abstract: Around the world, journalists uncover corruption, abuse of power, and financial misdealing – often at the risk of serious consequences or under financial constraints. These are also important issues in economic ...

Norge har de siste årene satset sterkt på vindkraft, og det blir utbygd mer vindkraft enn noen gang. Det er likevel stor debatt og ulike meninger knyttet denne formen for fornybar kraftproduksjon. Der enkelte mener vindkraft ...

As shown by Angeletos and Huo [2018], an incomplete information economy is observationally equivalent to an economy with a myopic and anchoring representative-agent under certain restrictions. Using the seminal model from ...

This article investigates how collective agreements influence wage levels and wage dispersion in Norway using a panel data set, rich on firm and worker information, covering the time period of 1997-2012. As many advanced ...

This thesis investigates causal relationship between real oil prices, real interest rate and unemployment rate in Norway and different counties of Norway (Akershus, Buskerud, Hordaland, Troms, Oslo and Rogaland). By applying ...

Economic recessions are costly, and are among other things associated with high unemployment rates, low wage growth, low investment spending and a higher number of bankruptcies. Whether the economy is in a recession or an ...

Under a context of a developing country, I try to disentangle the two mechanisms that drive the negative correlation between wage inequality and welfare generosity. The main mechanism, goes from pre-tax wage inequality to ...

I denne oppgaven ser jeg på effektene av dereguleringen i offentlig sektor i 1990. Jeg ser nærmere på effektene dereguleringen av lønnsfastsettelsen har hatt på avkastning av erfaring, sannsynligheten for å jobbe i offentlig ...

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. ...

This thesis investigates the role of hard- and soft-indicators to address the problem of nowcasting quarterly GDP. Hard indicators may include industrial production or retail sales, while financial series and surveys are ...

In this thesis I ask the question if countries that liberalize their trade, accelerates their rate of growth, compared to those countries that do not liberalize their trade policy. To investigate this question empirically ...

Langs kysten på Vestlandet er det høy oppdrettsaktivitet, med en årlig produksjon på rundt 300 584 tonn. Bruken av åpne merder kan føre til flere miljøeffekter, som lakselus, utslipp fra merdene og rømt oppdrettslaks. ...

Several models of the Norwegian system of wage formation are estimated in this thesis. The point of departure is a single-equation error correction model (ECM) for manufacturing wages, while the final model is a simultaneous ...

Firms make decisions on exports and investments to a destination market based on expected value. At the same time, investors with a high exposure to risk place higher value on firm shares that diversify their risk. How can ...

It is commonly acknowledged that historically high levels of house prices and household debt pose risks for macroeconomic and financial stability in Norway. This thesis is aimed at understanding what are the driving forces ...

Denne utredningen er en teoretisk kvalitativ analyse av 5 selskapers kompensasjonsordninger for toppledere i tidsperioden 2012-2018. Den overordnede problemstillingen som ønskes besvart er: Mottar topplederne i disse norske ...

The movement of labor resources from one country to another continues to occur in the global world of today through international migration as workers embark upon overseas journeys looking for better employment opportunities, ...

Using an extension of a circular city model developed by Balasubramanian (1998), this thesis aims to show reasons for why the Norwegian grocery market has not seen the same adaption of online retail as other markets. The ...

I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg betydningen av midlertidig jobb som tidlig arbeidserfaring på den videre yrkeskarrieren for unge voksne. Forskningsspørsmålet kan kokes ned til i hvilken grad midlertidig jobb er et springbrett ...

In this thesis I attempt to uncover the degree of employer learning in the Norwegian private sector. Employer learning refers to the process where employers learn about the initially unobserved characteristics of their ...

Securing open access to research will not remove the fundamental problem that commercial publishers have substantial market power. Thus, even if Plan S is successful, large commercial publishers are likely to put financial ...

Denne oppgaven benytter betinget verdsetting med betalingskort for å finne betalingsvillighet for å flytte vindkraft bygget i perioden 2020 – 2030 til havs heller enn på land. Videre undersøker oppgaven respondenters ...

This thesis analyzes whether development of technology for renewable energy is affected by knowledge flows between firms worldwide. The innovation in renewables are compared to all other inventions in order to see if the ...

I 1999 ble et nytt økonomisk samarbeid dannet i Europa - The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) - den såkalte eurosonen. Teorien om optimale valutaområder (OCA-teorien) har siden 1960-tallet fungert som et sett med økonomiske, ...

In this thesis, I analyse how currency risk affects the optimal management of the Norwegian oil fund. Using stochastic dynamic programming in continuous-time, I am able to derive closed-form solutions for optimal portfolio ...

Competition and financial distress in the banking sector has been a hot topic over the last couple of decades. Banks play a crucial role in the economy and the environment they operate in are constantly changing. 1st of ...

Background Payment for performance (P4P) strategies, which provide financial incentives to health workers and/or facilities for reaching pre-defined performance targets, can improve healthcare utilisation ...

Siden Norge ble uavhengig fra Danmark i 1814 har landet gjennomgått store endringer, både økonomisk og politisk. Kvantitative analyser av enkelthendelser, samt tidsserier for ulike økonomiske størrelser, kan bidra til å ...

Recent increases in housing prices in Norway, especially in the capital, Oslo, has once again raised discussions on how long the prices in the housing market can continue to rise before a major correction might take place. ...

The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the development of wealth and income inequality in Norway from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 until around 1930, with a particular emphasis on the distributional effects ...

Currently, the price of oil is approaching its highest point since 2015. Based on the hypothesis that oil prices are cycling into a bull market, it is a natural deduction that the Norwegian Krone (NOK) will appreciate since ...

Many macroeconomic variables are first available when they have already become part of the past. At the same time, there is a large set of figures that is indeed available without the same delay. This thesis use machine ...

I denne oppgaven ønsker jeg å analysere og identifisere effekter på boligprisene av den innstrammede boliglånsforskriften som trådte i kraft 1.januar 2017. Både nasjonale og regionale boligpriser vil bli analysert. ...

In this thesis I deal with the relation between economic growth and income inequality to study how a long period with substantial economic growth affect income inequality. I investigate what effect economic growth has had ...

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the implications of cash-for-care eligibility on maternal labor supply and to find out if these effects are persistent over time. The cash-for-care benefit in Norway studied in ...

This paper investigates the effects of changes in public investment on industrial output, nominal industry wages and household consumption, to identify the channel through which public spending affects aggregate demand and ...

Inflation expectations are essential for understanding inflation dynamics. However, there is little knowledge regarding how these expectations are formed. Survey data observe different inflation expectations among groups, ...

I denne oppgaven analyseres en dynamisk økonomi som står overfor muligheten for å nå to stokastiske terskler. Ved produksjon akkumuleres klimagassutslipp i atmosfæren, og ved et ukjent nivå akkumulert utslipp, vil en ...

Is it possible to examine the evolution of the tax burden in Norway over time? I address this question using data on direct and indirect tax revenue both for the state and municipalities from 1936 to 2015. Following the ...

Oppgavens hensikt er å analysere ulike aspekter ved den aggregerte matchingfunksjonen som tidligere ikke har vært gjennomført i Norge og således bidra med ny innsikt på fagområdet. Vi estimerer funksjonen med minste ...

Increasing the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix is essential for achieving the goal of the Paris Agreement and for ensuring universal access to energy. Hitherto, governments have not managed to establish ...

The thesis analyzes how the oil price drop impacted employment, wages and job mobility for petroleum workers in Rogaland and Hordaland counties during 2014 – 2016 years. I compare these oil workers to the comparable non-oil ...

Within the in European Union there exists a bundle of different policies promoting renewable energy deployment and punishing CO2-emissions in energy production. These policies exist simultaneously in the domestic and ...

In this thesis, I investigate the relationship between two different water monitoring options, and their impact on optimal water treatment and health. To see whether one monitoring option has an advantage compared to the ...

Ifølge Verdens helserapport (OECD) underkonsumerer vi grønnsaker, frukt, fisk og fiberrik mat, og overkonsumerer prosessert mat og mat rik på fett, sukker og salt. Konsekvensene av dette er blant annet at antall mennesker ...

Nyere adferdsøkonomisk forskning tyder på at tilrettelegging av valgsituasjoner kan ha en effekt på hva slags mat man velger å konsumere (Wilson, Buckley, Buckley, og Bogomolova, 2016). En slik tilrettelegging kalles gjerne ...

Bilateral flows of both people (via migration) and goods (via trade) between countries are imperative in the field of international economics and share many common characteristics. This thesis attempts to examine the ...

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 ...

In this thesis, I empirically examine how political ideology and the occurrence of parliamentary elections affect the demand for defense spending in Norway in the context of the domestic economy and the external security ...

The threat of automation got enormous attention after Frey and Osborne published their seminal paper in 2013, which examined how susceptible jobs were to computerisation. Their finding that almost half of the jobs were at ...

På midten av 1800-tallet var spedbarnsdødeligheten i Norge på nivå med mange av nåtidens utviklingsland, men fra slutten av 1800-tallet til midten av 1900- tallet skjedde en dramatisk reduksjon. Ved å bruke nylig digitaliserte ...

This thesis investigates the real compensation- labor productivity gap in the United States, using annual time series data from 1947 to 2017 for the manufacturing and non-farm business sector. The thesis estimates a Wage ...

This thesis analyzes whether inflation rates, government bonds and corruption levels have an impact on the difference between local prices of bitcoin and prices on the most liquid exchanges globally. Bitcoin may act as a ...

The high degree of concentration in the Norwegian grocery industry has lately been a much debated topic, and relative differences in purchasing prices among the grocery retail chains have been given part of the blame. This ...

A growing body of evidence suggests that individuals have time-inconsistent pref-erences. Even when they do not, policy makers who fear to loose elections willapply discount rates that decrease in relative time when they ...

When governments apply high tax rates targeted at natural resource rent, there must be generous deductions in order to avoid investment disincentives. How generous is disputed. Based on standard finance theory and ...