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The social cost of carbon under uncertainty over climate sensitivity and damages 
Menøy, Marte Eline (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The Cointegrated Vector Autoregressive Model: Concepts and Evidence 
Boug, Pål (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Økonomisk atferd i en verden i forandring Norsk økonomi opplever av og til store forstyrrelser eller skift som kan påvirke økonomisk atferd. Et av hovedfunnene i avhandlingen er at konsumatferden i Norge, med inntekt og ...
Jack-of-all-subjects? The association between individual grade variance and educational attainment 
Sandsør, Astrid Marie Jorde (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This paper uses detailed register information on students in lower secondary school in Norway to study the importance of the second moment of individual grade distribution: grade variance. Students receive discrete-value ...
Bør Norge redusere sin oljeproduksjon av hensyn til klimaet? 
Gjerdåker, Mari (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne oppgaven drøfter hvorvidt Norge bør redusere sin oljeutvinning fram mot 2030 av hensyn til klimaet. Oppgaven gjennomgår relevant litteratur på tilbudssidepolitikk, redegjør for norsk oljevirksomhet i dag og diskuterer ...
How Effective has the Land Reform in Zimbabwe Been in Reducing Poverty? 
Olsen, Magnus Hagder (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
How stationarity contradicts intergenerational equity 
Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Banerjee, Kuntal; Mitra, Tapan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We show how the condition of stationarity may contradict intergenerational equity. By formalizing the intuition that less sensitivity remains for the continuation of the stream if sensitivity for the interests of the present ...
Temporal Stability of Environmental Policy Preferences - An Analysis of Norwegian Contingent Valuation Studies 
Handschuch, Insa Sophie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The interest in mitigating environmental concerns substantially increased over the past years and more governments propose the introduction of additional environmental taxation. This development raises the important question ...
The Household Cash-Flow Channel of Monetary Policy in Norway Restricted Access
Skårnes, Anita (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Household consumption is affected by monetary policy through different channels. This thesis aims to identify the cash-flow channel of monetary policy and how household consumption is affected by a change in the policy ...
Klimatiltak på tilbudssiden 
Hatlen, Margrete Astrid Kubosch (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Parisavtalens klimamål er å holde global oppvarming under 2°C, aller helst 1,5°C. For å nå dette målet har man hovedsakelig fokusert på klimatiltak som retter seg mot å redusere etterspørselen etter fossilt brensel. Global ...
Joint Retirement in Couples: Evidence of Complementarity in Leisure 
Kruse, Herman (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This paper examines leisure complementarities in the joint retirement decisions of couples by quantifying the effect of the 2011 Norwegian pension reform. The reform abolished an earnings test on early retirement benefits ...
The Effect of Female Employment on Intimate Partner Violence – An Empirical Study from Rural India 
Sjurgard, Kristin Vikan (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Intimate partner violence affects one out of three women globally. In India, the numbers are even higher. This is not just a major health issue; the economic implications are also an important aspect of it. Actions that ...
The role of research in common pool problems 
Kuusela, Olli-Pekka; Laiho, Tuomas (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Significant amounts of public spending are allocated towards research on climate change, but considerable uncertainties remain. We analyze the strategic role of information acquisition and the determinants of investments ...
The Causal Long Run Effect of Extreme Weather Events on State Capacity Restricted Access
Wosnitza, Max Anton (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Norwegian Bank Losses and the Macroeconomy: An Econometric Study. 
Magan, Elias (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Predicting a Crisis Norwegian GDP in the Growth-at-Risk Framework 
Albertsen, Maja Olderskog (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Inequity aversion, negative reciprocity and guilt aversion: A survey of second-movers’ other-regarding preferences in sequential games 
Struck, Jonas (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
An online survey with 115 participants, conducted between February and May 2020, delivered results on second-mover behavior and motivations in sequential games. The survey games were based on games from an experiment by ...
The effect of financial constraints on innovation - A firm-level microdata analysis 
Nordgård, Øyvind Klæboe (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Reducing Profit Shifting: An Evaluation of the Norwegian Thin Capitalization Rule 
Kvamme, Frida Margrete (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
A Better Targeted Agricultural Policy 
Løvland, Aksel Kierulf (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Effekten av trinn 1 i Oslopakke 3 på trafikken i Bærumssnittet: En empirisk analyse ved hjelp av Difference-in-Difference 
Nilsen, Siri Vår Lorentzen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Implementeringen av trinn 1 i Oslopakke 3 den 1. oktober 2017 innebar en generell prisøkning av bomtakstene i Osloringen, men også en innføring av miljø- og tidsdifferensierte takster for første gang. I denne oppgaven ...
Effekter av tilbudsforbedringer i togtrafikken 
Arnesen, Tonje Glenne (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
I denne oppgaven kvantifiseres etterspørselseffektene av tiltaket som går under navnet «Oslos nye grunnrute». Tiltaket hadde som hensikt å øke frekvensen i togtrafikken gjennom Oslo og gi et mer punktlig og oversiktlig ...
On the Engel Elasticity of Donations 
Espelid, Marie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Samfunnsøkonomisk lønnsomhet ved automatisering av jernbaneterminaler: En casestudie ved Nygårdstangen godsterminal i Bergen 
Nyland, Gaute Sæter (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
I Norge er det politisk enighet om å overføre gods, fra veitransport og over på mer miljøvennlige transportmidler, blant annet jernbane. Et mulig virkemiddel for å få til en slik godsoverføring, kan være å investere i ny ...
Duty-free reforms – Consumption and tax revenue effects from changing the duty-free arrangement in Norway 
Bjørkås, Eivind (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
I use the model KONSUM-G to simulate reforms in the duty-free arrangement on alcohol and tobacco in Norway. The model consists of a complete demand system for private consumption in Norway, and was originally developed to ...
Loss Aversion in the Norwegian Housing Market 
Eriksen, Andreas Eidspjeld (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Norsk elbilpolitikk: Subsidier og nettverkseffekter Restricted Access
Ødegård, Ida Margrethe Buhr (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne oppgaven diskuterer hvorvidt elbilsubsidiene er for høye hvis man tar hensyn til at det er nettverkseksternaliteter. I den norske debatten om elbilsubsidier har det blitt hevdet at subsidiene er for høye hvis formålet ...
The Causal Effect of Education on Sick Leave 
Erichsen, Oscar Fredrik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The sick leave level in Norway is known to be high compared to other countries with similar welfare systems. One of the most important indicators for sick leave is socio-economic standing, and education is an essential ...
Britain’s accession to the EU - An empirical analysis applying the gravity equation Restricted Access
Slaatsveen, Ida-Karoline Braaten (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Heterogeneous Responses in Investment to Monetary Policy Shocks Restricted Access
Riiser, Mikkel Irving Fiksdal (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Sysselsetting og spedbarnsdødelighet - Effekten av et offentlig sysselsettingsprogram på spedbarnsdødelighet i rurale India 
Vada, Mari Kristine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne masteroppgaven undersøker effekten av “Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act” (MGNREGA) på spedbarnsdødelighet i rurale India. MGNREGA er et offentlig sysselsettingsprogram som gir husholdninger ...
Effects of Copayments on Utilization of Health Care Services 
Slettan, Bjørn (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 ...
Introduction 
Keilman, Nico; Mazzuco, Stefano (Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Future trends in population size, age structure, regional distribution, and other demographic variables are important for a wide range of planning situations. Hence, many statistical agencies and independent researchers ...
Export Market Risk and the Role of State Credit Guarantees 
Heiland, Inga; Yalcin, Erdal (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Many countries offer state credit guarantees to support credit-constrained exporters. The policy instrument is commonly justified by governments as a means to mitigating adverse outcomes of financial market frictions for ...
No Man is an Island: Social Coordination and the Environment 
Nyborg, Karine (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Humans are fundamentally social. Social activities require coordination, possibly leading to multiple equilibria in the form of self-reinforcing patterns of herd behavior. When alternative equilibria differ substantially ...
Measuring Military Power Within the NATO Alliance 
Økland, Trym Kristian (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The association between parity, CVD mortality and CVD risk factors among Norwegian women and men 
Kravdal, Øystein; Tverdal, Aage; Grundy, Emily (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Several studies have shown that women and men with two children have lower mortality than the childless, but there is less certainty about mortality, including CVD mortality, at higher parities and meagre knowledge about ...
Bank Capital Requirements: Foreign Branch Behaviour and Threats to Financial Stability 
Carlsen, Ludvig-Johannes Hetty (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
I use the implementation of the BASEL III accord in Norway to study the behaviour of foreign branches when host countries domestic banks face higher capital requirements. Using a government database containing banks financial ...
The ethics of intergenerational risk 
Piacquadio, Paolo Giovanni (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This paper addresses the evaluation of intergenerational allocations in an uncertain world. It axiomatically characterizes a class of criteria, named reference-dependent utilitarian, that assess allocations relative to a ...
Why physicians are lousy gatekeepers: Sicklisting decisions when patients have private information on symptoms 
Carlsen, Benedicte; Lind, Jo Thori; Nyborg, Karine (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In social insurance systems that grant workers paid sick leave, physicians act as gatekeepers, supposedly granting sickness certificates to the sick and not to shirkers. Previous research has emphasized the physician's ...
Zone Pricing Identification: Theory and Practice 
Skage, Alexander Sanner (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
In this article, I explore how to identify zone pricing, highlighting its place in understanding the structure of grocery markets. Different definitions of price zones are discussed in terms of theory, assumptions, ...
For lite, for mykje eller formue? Formueutvikling og skatteunndraging 
Vevle, Ingelin (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Growth with age-dependent preferences 
Mehlum, Halvor; Torvik, Ragnar; Valente, Simone (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We study the consequences of age-dependent preferences for economic growth and structural change in a two-sector model with overlapping generations and non-dimishing returns to capital. Savings and accumulation rates depend ...
Creating balance in dynamic competitions 
Clark, Derek John; Nilssen, Tore (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We consider incentives for organizing competitions in multiple rounds, focusing on situations where there is heterogeneity among the contestants ex ante, which discourages effort in a single contest. Heterogeneity evolves ...
Characterizing sustainability in discrete time 
Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Mitra, Tapan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We examine the investment rule that must be satisfied by an efficient and egalitarian path in a discrete-time version of the Dasgupta–Heal–Solow model of capital accumulation and resource depletion. In the discrete-time ...
The measurement of resilience 
Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Bossert, Walter; D’Ambrosio, Conchita; Vögele, Claus (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Resilience has become an important topic in many social sciences. Numerous individual choices and economic and demographic outcomes are likely to be influenced by people's resilience. School performance, work absenteeism ...
Gaining advantage by winning contests 
Clark, Derek John; Nilssen, Tore; Sand, Jan Yngve (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We consider a principal who faces many identical competitors, and who can distribute a prize fund over two consecutive contests. The winner of contest one gains an advantage in contest two where his effort is more productive ...
Relationship between Farm Size and Technical Efficiency: An empirical analysis of the oil palm sector in Colombia 
Lizarraga Hernandez, Raysa Rosario (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The literature within development economics generally assumes the hypothesis of an inverse size-productivity relationship of agriculture. Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), this thesis provides an empirical analysis ...
The environmental flattening of the New-Keynesian Phillips-curve Restricted Access
Lerdalen, Lars Olav (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Hvordan blir bompengesatser og veiprioriteringer formet av dynamikken mellom de politiske styringsnivåene? 
Kvadsheim, Ole Dahle (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
European Mortality Forecasts: Are the Targets Still Moving? 
Keilman, Nico; Kristoffersen, Sigve (Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Many statistical agencies routinely produce population forecasts, and revise these forecasts when new data become available, or when current demographic trends indicate that an update is necessary. When the forecaster ...
Binder tariffen? En undersøkelse av dekningsgraden til allmenngjorte tariffavtaler 
Sørlien, Karstein Kristiansen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne oppgaven tar for seg allmenngjorte tariffavtaler i Norge i perioden 2004-2019. Det er gjort forsøk på å kartlegge virkeområdet til hver enkelt avtale, for å kunne gi et anslag av hvor mange arbeidere som er berørt. ...
Socially Responsible Fund Performance in Europe 
Hirsch, Elise Helene von (Master thesis, Group thesis / Masteroppgave, Gruppeoppgave, 2020)
In this paper, I analyze the question of whether European socially responsible mutual funds outperform or underperform conventional funds between 2010 and 2020. Further, I investigate whether the funds have different ...
Virkemidler for å redusere køkjøring - en kost-nytte-analyse av rushtidsavgift og fleksible arbeidsordninger Restricted Access
Rastad, Alexandra Aarvold (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne oppgaven ser på eksterne kostnader av køkjøring og ulike virkemidler for å redusere dette. Ved hjelp av en teoretisk modell av trafikkvolum og tilgjengelige estimater fra litteraturen gjør jeg en kost-nytte-analyse ...
Competition in the Norwegian Non-Life Insurance Market Restricted Access
Rissveds, Lisa Alexandra (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Mobilizing Through Strike - The Impact of Strikes on Workers' Labor Union Membership Decisions 
Sætrang, Truls Olaussen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The Norwegian labor union density rate has been falling over the last decades, even though the country's labor unions play a crucial role in tariff agreement negotiations. To understand the drivers of dwindling union density ...
Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholder Value 
Khalid, Abubakar (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Standard economic theory teaches us that it is efficient for firms to maximize profits, motivated by the traditional Friedman argument that firms social responsibility is to maximize profits and increase the value for their ...
Reconsidering Union Wage Effects 
Reite, Erlend Aas (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, ...
Har tilskudd til lokale lag og foreninger (LAM) effekt på deltakelse i organisert idrett i Oslo kommune? Restricted Access
Strandborg, Celine Benedicte (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Kan strategisk politikk forklare endring i offentlig gjeld? Restricted Access
Stenbakk, Ellen Elise (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Hva oppnår en med ny modell for boligpriser? 
Vinje, Thomas (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Confidence in confidence distributions! 
Cunen, Celine; Hjort, Nils Lid; Schweder, Tore (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The recent article ‘Satellite conjunction analysis and the false confidence theorem’ (Balch et al. 2019, Satellite conjunction analysis and the false confidence theorem. Proc. R. Soc. A475, 20180565) points to certain ...
Are sibling models a suitable tool in analyses of how reproductive factors affect child mortality? 
Kravdal, Øystein (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Background: Several studies of how reproductive factors affect child mortality or other child outcomes have been based on sibling comparisons. With such models one controls for unobserved determinants of the outcome that ...
Født trygda? Betydningen av sosial klasse for mottak av uføretrygd og AAP som ung 
Delalic, Lamija (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
De siste 15 årene har andelen unge mottakere av uføretrygd doblet seg. Dette medfører store samfunnsøkonomiske kostnader, både for det offentlige og for personene det gjelder. I 2019 ble folketrygdens totale utgifter for ...
Økonomisk usikkerhet og fruktbarhetsvalg: En empirisk analyse med utgangspunkt i det norske arbeidsmarkedet 
Gunstad, Ingeborg Flaten (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Økonomisk teori tilsier at usikkerhet knyttet til fremtidig inntekt fører til at fremadskuende individer venter med å få barn. I denne oppgaven tester jeg denne hypotesen empirisk, ved å ta utgangspunkt i det norske ...
En analyse av effekter av boliglånsforskriften 
Fahre, Benedikte (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg effektene av innstrammingene i boliglånsforskriften 1. januar 2017. Oppgaven forsøker å belyse om innstrammingen har hatt effekt i form av lavere kreditt- og boligprisvekst, med hovedfokus ...
Equity and efficiency: A theoretical analysis of education subsidies 
Wika, Hans Christian (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis explores the possibility of government intervention, in the presence of poverty traps, resulting from indivisibilities in human capital formation and capital market imperfections. Generally, capital markets are ...
Exchange Rate Movements and Manufacturing Employment Restricted Access
Pedersen, Fride Marie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Using detailed Norwegian firm level tax data together with trade data, I exploit a natural experiment to isolate the employment effects stemming from a currency depreciation. By comparing manufacturing firms with differential ...
The Effect of Hukou on Capital-Intensity in Chinese Textile Industry: An Empirical Analysis Restricted Access
Yuan, Xiao (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Foreign Aid and Conflict in Africa 
Hatling, Malin Renate (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
En analyse av verdikjeden for dagligvarer i Norge 
Frodason, Jon Styrmir (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne oppgaven undersøker konkurranseforhold i den norske verdikjeden for dagligvarer. Oppgaven tar sikte på å undersøke hvordan prisdiskriminering og importvern virker inn på konkurransen i verdikjeden. Formålet er å ...
What are the effects of Euro spillovers? A monetary policy shock in a global VAR model 
Kordahl, Emil (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Does central bank shocks impact foreign countries? This thesis investigates the transmission of a Euro-region monetary policy shock to foreign countries using a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model. This is accomplished ...
Income uncertainty shocks and precautionary savings 
Fladvad, Sindre Cockerell (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis is aimed at studying how income uncertainty shocks can affect household consumption and saving. By using an extended life cycle model combined with proxies of uncertainty the paper attempts to describe the ...
Does Wealth Taxation Discourage Entrepreneurship? 
Drejer, Bjørnar (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
While redistribution and the need for government revenue typically make up the arguments for the taxation of net wealth, the distortion of savings and the adverse effect on entrepreneurship is by many held up as the gloomy ...
Bayesian Estimation of a DSGE Model for Norway 
Presterud, Christian Ungersnæss (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis investigates the welfare effects of using the real exchange rate as a deciding factor in the conduction of monetary policy in a small open economy. A New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model ...
Kildesortering i koronaens tid: Forstudieplan for et felteksperiment om sosiale normer 
Bjørkheim, Eirik Sundstøl (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
ROBEK: To spend or not to spend. How Norwegian politicians and voters respond to the pressure of administration 
Sandbakk, Gjermund (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Norway as Green Exporter: An Analysis of the Norwegian case for exports and externalities of renewable energy 
Vivelid, Eirik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
En empirisk analyse av kvinners avkastning av utdanning i ekteskapsmarkedet 
Eilertsen, Maren Langvik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Trondheim Spektrum under vann - Samfunnsøkonomiske konsekvenser av flom, stormflo og havstigning 
Thon, Lars Henrik Verde (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Ved hjelp av aktsomhetskart og skadeberegninger analyseres flomrisiko som følge klimaendringer for Trondheim Spektrum i et hydrologisk og samfunnsøkonomisk perspektiv. Trondheim Spektrum er en arena for sport, næringsliv ...
Leftover Women in China: A theoretical study of the impact of the One-Child Policy on the Chinese marriage market Restricted Access
Blanco Pinto, Diana Emilia (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis will focus on developing a dynamic two-sided search model to describe the marriage market in contemporary China. The situation of the marriage market in China is unique, given the sex ratio imbalance, where it ...
Childbearing is Associated with a Short-term Reduced Risk of Crohn’s Disease in Mothers 
Kravdal, Øystein; Magnus, Per; Moum, Bjørn; Høivik, Marte Lie (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Our aim in this study was to analyze the importance of childbearing for risk of inflammatory bowel disease. Using data from the Norwegian Population Register and the Norwegian Patient Register, we fitted discrete-time ...
Competitive Balance When Winning Breeds Winners 
Clark, Derek John; Nilssen, Tore (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In contest settings, heterogeneity between contestants generally leads to low effort provision, and many instruments have been suggested to restore competitive balance. We suggest that heterogeneity may evolve depending ...
Housing wealth in Norway, 1993–2015 
Fagereng, Andreas; Holm, Martin Blomhoff; Torstensen, Kjersti Næss (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We provide a new estimate of household-level housing wealth in Norway between 1993 and 2015 using an ensemble machine learning method on housing transaction data. The new housing wealth measure is an improvement over ...
Evaluating probabilistic population forecasts 
Keilman, Nico (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We demonstrate how a probabilistic population forecast can be evaluated, when observations for the predicted variables become available. Statisticians have developed various scoring rules for that purpose, but there are ...
Fiscal Consolidation Programs and Income Inequality 
Brinca, Pedro; Ferreira, Miguel H.; Franco, Francesco; Holter, Hans; Malafry, Laurence (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We document a strong empirical relationship between higher income inequality and stronger recessive impacts of fiscal consolidation episodes across time and space. To explain this finding, we develop a life‐cycle economy ...
Investment rules and time invariance under population growth 
Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Hartwick, John M.; Mitra, Tapan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We propose an adaptation of Hartwick’s investment rule to models with population growth and show that following Hartwick’s rule is equivalent to a time-invariant real per capita net national product. In the so-called DHSS ...
How Will Climate Change Affect the Provision and Value of Water from Public Lands in Southern California Through the 21st Century? 
Srivastava, Lorie; Hand, Michael; Kim, John; Sánchez, José J.; Lupi, Frank; Garnache, Cloé; Drapek, Raymond J.; Quinn, James F. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We estimate the ecosystem service value of water supplied by the San Bernardino National Forest in Southern California under climate change projections through the 21st century. We couple water flow projections from a ...
On the Measurement of Opportunity Inequality 
Håvarstein, Morten (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
In this thesis I investigate the inequality in opportunity for income in Norway. In contrast to studies utilizing Roemer's (1993) identifying monotonicity assumption, I propose a direct measure of effort that does not ...
Public work and private violence 
Kjelsrud, Anders Grøn; Sjurgard, Kristin Vikan (Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2020)
Violence against women is persisting in many parts of the world. At the same time, there is a global trend of increased female labour force participation. In this paper we study the effect on intimate partner violence of ...
Costly reversals of bad policies: The case of the mortgage interest deduction 
Karlman, Markus; Kinnerud, Karin; Kragh-Sørensen, Kasper (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This paper measures the welfare effects of removing the mortgage interest deduction under a variety of implementation scenarios. To this end, we build a life-cycle model with heterogeneous households calibrated to the U.S. ...
Digitalisering i den norske bokbransjen 
Burheim, Helga Nermoen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Jeg ser på hvordan markedsstrukturen og avtaler i den norske bokbransjen kan påvirke digitaliseringen, og hvordan digitaliseringen av bokbransjen i sin tur kan påvirke markedet. For å kunne gjøre dette tar jeg utgangspunkt ...
Don't Forget About Technology!: The role of technology inducing climate policy Restricted Access
Abrahamsen, Olav (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Positional preferences – does it matter? 
Strand, Eirik Rønning (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis reviews some of the leading research on how to measure the importance of positional preferences. The main arguments for the existence of positional preferences are based on survey data. The first section of ...
Bidding Strategies 
Vághy, Balázs Márton (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis examines how bidder behavior in open bid English auctions in the real estate market may explain why sales prices often differ from the objects’ appraisal value. Using housing auction data in Oslo, Norway from ...
Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment 
Bhuller, Manudeep; Mogstad, Magne; Dahl, Gordon Boyack; Løken, Katrine Vellesen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Using a random judge design and panel data from Norway, we estimate that imprisonment discourages further criminal behavior, with reoffense probabilities falling by 29 percentage points and criminal charges dropping by 11 ...
Inflasjon og arbeidsledighet blant OECD-land. Er det en sammenheng mellom koordinering i lønnsdannelsen og helningen på Phillipskurven? 
Landgraff, Inger Sofie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne oppgaven estimerer betingede modeller mellom inflasjon og arbeidsledighet og undersøker hvorvidt det eksisterer en sammenheng mellom koordineringsgrad i lønnsdannelsen og Phillipskurvestrukturen. Koordinerte ...
En analyse av den midlertidige rekonstruksjonsloven 
Hartwig, Kathinka (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
I denne oppgaven analyseres de samfunnsøkonomiske virkningene av den midlertidige rekonstruksjonsloven, som trådte i kraft i mai 2020. Ved utgangen av oktober 2020 har tolv selskaper tatt i bruk den nye loven. Oppgaven ...
Hvordan påvirker leilighetsnormen boligmarkedet i Oslo? En evaluering av liberaliseringen av normen i 2013. 
Viktil, Håkon (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
I 2013 ble reguleringen av boligbyggingen i Oslo mindre streng etter endringen i leilighetsnormen. I denne oppgaven har jeg sett på hvordan denne liberaliseringen har påvirket leilighetsfordeling, boligbygging og priser. ...
Asymmetries in trade - Norway and the Eastern Enlargement An Empirical Study 
Mørch, Mikkel Norman (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
In April 2004 the number of member states in the European Union increased from fifteen to twenty-five, the biggest enlargement in the history of the EU in terms of new member states and population. Among the ten new members ...
Financial distress, labor supply and optimal income taxation Restricted Access
Suteu, Valer-Olimpiu (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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