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Local Paradox of Plenty? Recent empirical evidence from Africa Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This paper considers the role which selfish, moral and social incentives and pressures play in explaining the extent to which stated choices over pro-environment behaviours vary across individuals. The empirical context ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
It is often argued that projects involving public good changes should be chosen on the basis of monetary valuation and cost–benefit analysis (CBA). However, CBA is not value-free. When used to measure welfare, it is based ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
We construct a detailed bioeconomic model of the Norwegian coastal cod fishery. This fishery has been open access up to the policy change during the “cod crisis” of 1989/1990. To answer to what extent the subsequent increase ...
(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 ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2004)
It has often been claimed that firms’ compliance to environmental regulations is higher than predicted by standard theory, a result labeled the “Harrington paradox” in the literature. Enforcement data from Norway presented ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2002)
This paper presents both theoretical analysis and econometric evidence for the United States, Great Britain and Norway on the extent to which hourly wages of different groups of workers are sensitive to ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2002)
We explore the efficacy of price and quantity controls as environmental policy instruments in a stochastic setting in which agents are risk averse. We demonstrate that the assumption of risk aversion may improve the ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2002)
The dynamic properties of the The New Keynesian Phillips curve (NPC) is analysed within the framework of a small system of linear difference equations.
We evaluate the empirical results of existing studies which uses ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2001)