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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)Discrete-time hazard models for first- and higher-order births are estimated from DHS data for 22 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the 1990s. It is found that, among women with the same number of completed years of ...
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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)From a CAPM-type model the cost of equity is derived for a …rm operating under various foreign tax systems. The …rm’s shares are traded in a market which is una¤ected by these systems. The cost of capital depends on the ...
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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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(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)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)En av de største globale truslene vi står ovenfor i dag, er at vår økonomiske aktivitet skal føre til global oppvarming. Menneskeskapte utslipp av klimagasser, avskoging o.l. fører til merkbare klimaendringer. Klimaendringene ...
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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 ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)In the negotiations towards an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, one of the issues negotiated will be the allocation of emissions (or tradable emission permits) between countries. In most analyses and policy ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)This paper examines how poverty alleviation can be incorporated as a policy objective in developing country macroeconomic models, analogous to the unemployment objective in industrial country applications. Three elements ...
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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 / Hovedoppgave, 2001)The major theme of this paper is aimed to show the adverse effects of immigration control in a labor market where distinct job segmentation between natives and immigrants exists. Various revisions in immigration policy ...
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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, ...