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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)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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(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)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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(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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(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)Telenor eller NetCom? Tele 1 eller Tele 2? Telia eller Sense? Song Networks eller You communication? I en jungel av tilbydere i telekommarkedet er det ikke enkelt å bestemme seg for hvilken leverandør man skal velge. ...
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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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(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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(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)De fleste økonomer i dag er enige om at det langsiktige målet for pengepolitikken er stabil og lav inflasjon. Derimot har det hersket uenighet om hvordan man bør innrette et lands penge- og valutapolitikk for best å kunne ...
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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)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 ...