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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)Various extensions of the leximin order to the infinite dimensional setting have been suggested. They relax completeness and strong anonymity. Instead, by removing sensitivity to generations at infinite rank this paper ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)This paper presents a distributional argument for the use of supply-side climate policies whereby carbon emissions are controlled through (i) depletion quotas or (ii) permanent confiscation of a fraction of the in situ ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)This paper estimates peer effects originating from the ability composition of tutorial groups for undergraduate students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range of support, and assigned ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)In this thesis I study academic procrastination, and try to look at the phenomenon from various angles and approaches. I start out reviewing the literature on the subject, from both an economic and psychological perspective. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This thesis focuses on the topic of funding ecosystem for start-ups in China. The number of newly-registered enterprises in China has surged in the last decade. The developing evolution of start-ups is the reflection of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Summary A key stylised fact in international macroeconomics is that the real exchange rate is highly volatile and exhibits, at best, a slow rate of convergence towards a constant long-run equilibrium. Fluctuations in the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)This paper provides an accounting exercise for the secular movement of China s saving and investment and explores how its saving and investment can be evolved in the decades ahead. To this end, we calibrate the Neoclassical ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)China’s aggregate economic activity has increased and the national economy has developed rapidly since the reform and opening-up policy was carried out after 1978. The GDP growth rate has kept over 10 percent since 2004. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)The Norwegian laundry detergent market is highly concentrated. Throughout the history of industry, Lilleborg, has had an almost monopolistic position in the market with only a few competitors, and none of comparable size. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)From being a small scale producer of opium, the Afghan drug industry has grown dramatically during the last three decades. According to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) the Afghan production now accounts ...
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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 / Masteroppgave, 2010)Denne oppgaven gir en innføring i agent-basert modellering og bruken av slike modeller innenfor økonomifaget. Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) er en forskningsmetode som bruker datakraft til å simulere små samfunn ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This paper develops an agent-based trade model, and then uses that model to test the hypothesis of whether the absence of sailable rivers on the African continent could have influenced its growth. Firstly, some growth ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)The world endured exceedingly high prices on food commodities in the period leading up to May 2008. Grain prices, in particular, experienced rapid growth, with grain commodities selling at well over double the price received ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)I denne oppgaven vurderer jeg samfunnsøkonomiske aspekter av alkoholpolitikken. Første del av oppgaven er en oversikt over ulike temaer som er sentrale for alkoholpolitikk, og en oversikt over hvilke økonomiske instrumenter ...
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Alkoholpolitikk og det duale selvet : En adferdsøkonomisk analyse av alkoholpolitiske tiltak i Norge (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Denne oppgaven har som hovedmål å belyse effekten av en endring i særavgiften på alkohol. Dette gjøres utelukkende analytisk ved hjelp av en atferdsøkonomisk modell, der antakelsen om komplett viljestyrke hos den økonomiske ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Norge har vært en del av et felles arbeidsmarked i Norden siden 1954, og hatt fri bevegelse av varer, kapital, tjenesteyting og arbeidskraft innenfor EU/EØS-området siden 1994. Erfaringer med økt arbeidsinnvandring oppsummeres ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Denne oppgaven tar for seg allmenngjøring av tariffavtaler i byggebransjen. Allmenngjøring av tariffavtaler oppfattes som et kontroversielt politisk virkemiddel både av arbeidsgiver- og arbeidstakerorganisasjoner, fordi ...