Browsing Økonomisk institutt by Issue Date
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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)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)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)Som et ledd i en konsentrasjonsprosess som har foregått i den norske finansnæringen den siste tiden, fusjonerte SpareBank 1 Gruppen med VÅR Gruppen 22. desember 1999. Fusjonen var et resultat av SpareBank 1s ønske om å ...
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Dereguleringen av elektrisitetsmarkedet i EU : en positiv analyse av Frankrikes nasjonale interesser (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)Av politiske, økonomiske og lovmessige grunner har EU innført et direktiv om deregulering av elektrisitetsmarkedet. Innen den Europeiske Unionen skal det være fri flyt av varer tjenester og personer, og elektrisk kraft ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)EU åpnet for utvidelsesforhandlinger med 6 tidligere østblokk land i 1998, blant andre Polen, og inkluderte 6 nye i forhandlingene året etter. Det er interessant å fokusere på Polen, ettersom det er det mest folkerike av ...
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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)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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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)We present a stated-preference study where values of statistical lives (VSL) are derived both as public and private goods, and we distinguish between three different death causes, heart disease, environmentally related ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)The RAINS model is used to calculate cost minimising abatement policies subject to European-wide spatial restrictions on pollution. The principle for choosing environmental targets for the 1994 Oslo Protocol was closing a ...
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(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)As crime becomes increasingly widespread it may be optimal not to lower but to increase the standard of evidence. Even though a higher standard of evidence results in a lower expected penalty for all levels of crime, it ...
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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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(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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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, ...