Background Payment for performance (P4P) strategies, which provide financial incentives to health workers and/or facilities for reaching pre-defined performance targets, can improve healthcare utilisation ...

No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but richer voters are on average best informed. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, ...

This thesis considers whether acquiring host-country citizenship affects the labour market integration of immigrants. I conduct an empirical analysis of whether naturalisation affects occupational status using a panel of ...

Background: psoriasis, a chronic relapsing inflammatory disease affecting primarily the skin, shows multiple comorbidities including depression, cardiovascular diseases and other relevant conditions. Psoriasis patients ...

We investigate whether mining affects local corruption in Africa. Several cross-country analyses report that natural resources have adverse effects on political institutions by increasing corruption, whereas other country-level ...

In cooperative endeavors among economically heterogeneous parties, the contribution decisions can often be framed in different ways. But do such framing differences affect behavior? We report the results of a laboratory ...

Do reciprocal preferences matter for participation in international environmental agreements? Combining the two canonical models of Barrett (2003) and Rabin (1993), I find that 1) the empty coalition is always stable; 2) ...

This article maps and discusses the legal processing of rape cases in Norwegian appellate courts. Drawing on data from a multivariate regression analysis and a qualitative frame analysis, we examine the significance of ...

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 ...

I denne oppgaven studerer jeg om og hvordan innføringen av smarte strømmålere påvirker strømforbruket i norske husholdninger når dataene fra strømmåleren formidles til strømkunden gjennom en mobilapp. Jeg estimerer effekten ...

The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate which determinants that explain the length of work spells among agents in an inbound customer call center of a large insurance company in Norway. In particular, I first ...

The financial crisis of 2007-08 highlighted the vulnerability of the financial system to a liquidity shock. Uninsured creditors ran on banks after observing a significant credit shock. Unable to meet its obligations to pay ...

This thesis analyzes the effect of regional trade agreements (RTAs) on international patent collaborations, as a measure of knowledge flows. Patent collaboration generate knowledge flows between inventors through interactions ...

Following the financial crisis 2007 – 2008, financial markets and infrastructures have been receiving great amounts of attention. At the cores are payment and financial transactions, on which all economic activities are ...

I et felteksperiment hos Norges Automobil forbund (NAF) studeres effektene av å endre utformingen av en rabatt de gir sine medlemmer. Hovedformålet er å teste om rabattformen har en effekt på sannsynligheten for at medlemmer ...

This thesis presents new evidence on the effects of local property taxes on house prices. Since 2007 there has been a significant increase in the number of Norwegian municipalities that tax housing using the local property ...

Reliable estimates of housing values have been a source of considerable uncertainty in studies of wealth inequality in Norway. The tax-assessed values that before 2009 formed the basis for evaluating the housing wealth of ...

In 2015, the world community adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a United Nation Summit. One of the goals, is to end hunger and to achieve food security for the poor by 2030. This paper will review existing ...

This thesis seeks to add to the existing knowledge on the fragmentation of value chains in manufacturing firms. Using a matched set of firm-level data on key financial data and a survey on European firms I provide complementary ...

CCS is cited as a critical technology for mitigating climate change. Deployment of CCS has, in contrast, been painfully slow. This thesis analyzes the existence of lock-in in the market for CCS. The model features a one ...

In my thesis I illuminate the effects on social welfare created by the introduction of a financial activity tax (FAT) on financial services. Many financial services are exempt from value added tax (VAT). Even though it may ...

SNoW-No modellen (Statistics Norway World Model), en anvendt generell likevektsmodell for norsk økonomi som er utviklet av Statistisk Sentralbyrå. Formålet til denne modellen er å beskrive langsiktige økonomiske framskrivninger ...

In this master thesis I will study the determinants of corruption in Brazilian municipalities for the years 2006 to 2014. To perform this analysis I first build a database using data from the CGU audit of municipalities ...

This study analyses empirically the education returns for the urban workers, rural workers and migrant workers in China, using the data from CHIP2013. This study mainly aims to solve the endogeneity problem caused by ...

A model of vertical differentiation is used to examine the relationship between consumers' information about the environmental quality of a product and the environmental quality that the firm chooses to produce. I find ...

Norway has ratified the Paris Agreement, according to which the country has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030, compared to emission levels in 1990. The Norwegian commercial transport ...

This paper studies why higher economic growth cannot always enhance human development. In general, these two dimensions have a strong and positive relationship, but some countries appear unable to balance this relationship. ...

Siden midten av 1980-tallet har inntektsforskjellen i Norge økt, noe som fremgår av den vedvarende økningen i Gini-koeffisienten og andre ulikhetsmål. Selv om en viss grad av ulikhet kan øke effektiviteten ved å styrke ...

Andelen med helseforsikring har i dag vokst til nesten 10%. Samtidig som den norske stat bruker mer resurser på helse. Bruken av private helsetjenester har blitt et alternativ som både den enkelte, forsikringsselskapene ...

This thesis enquires into major changes in the measures of poverty from 1990 until 2015. Critical reviews here unveils the building blocks of past and present approaches as well as theoretical frameworks of poverty measures ...

It seems to be a never-ending debate on whether the public or the private sector should deliver services to the public. Although the political divide seems to be ideologically motivated, the arguments made are often one ...

Faced with the challenges of increasing inequality and automation, it might be time to look at new ways to organize our welfare states. Can a relatively newly proposed version of universal basic income, the universal basic ...

Do information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as internet and mobile phones facilitate female labor force participation and thereby a more gender equal labor market, especially in developing countries? I ...

The starting point of the discussion, provided in the present paper, has been the presence of size - dependent tax policy in Norway. In local settings, entrepreneurs with a turnover less than NOK 50 000 in the previous 12 ...

This thesis examines the relationship between remittances and effects on household labor supply by the left behind in Nepal by using cross- sectional analysis of the data from a household survey conducted in 2016 by the ...

Målet med denne oppgaven har vært å vurdere om regjeringens klimapolitikk for nyttetransporten samsvarer med regjeringens klimamål. Dette spørsmålet er belyst for norsk lastebiltransport, som utgjør 76 prosent av innenlands ...

This thesis is a study of the housing market in Oslo and Norway, and is a first attempt to look into the potential changes and consequences of government intervention in the Norwegian housing market, in particular the ...

I denne oppgaven tar jeg i bruk økonometrisk metode for å studere drivkreftene bak veksten i helseutgifter i OECD- landene i perioden 1970- 2015. Jeg følger metodikken til Newhouse (1992) der jeg inkluderer viktige ...

Denne oppgaven diskuterer gevinster og mulige kostnader ved at plattformselskaper fungerer som mellomledd i delingsøkonomien. Forutsetningen for diskusjonen er at husholdningene ikke han handle med hverandre uten slike ...

I investigate married women’s labor supply in Norway from 1995 to 2015, by adopting the methodological approach of Blau and Kahn (2007). We know that married females have substantially increased their labor supply over ...

I løpet av de siste tiårene har det vært en stor økning av store bokhandelkjeder i Norge. Vi har sett en endring fra mange, enkeltstående bokhandlere og små kjeder til færre, større bokhandelkjeder. I samme periode har vi ...

The growing inflow of immigrants to Western Europe and the US has increased the importance of understanding immigrants’ location decisions within their host country. While this decision is shaped by many factors, the focus ...

In this thesis, I assess the predictability of financial analysts' stock price recommendations through a case study of the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE). The foundation of this assessment is ~23 000 recommendations published ...

Nowcasting economic aggregates with the use of timely data is an important challenge faced by central banks, and forecasting in general. I address this challenge by using timely search value indices (SVIs) from Google ...

Almost every bachelor student has asked himself this question at one point while copying notes from a blackboard: Why is this not available online? Often given reasons are pedagogic ones or lack of attendance in case of ...

Billettkontroll på kollektive transportmidler er et virkemiddel for å gjøre sniking blant reisende relativt mindre attraktivt. Kostnaden transportselskapet står overfor ved tapte billettinntekter er at kollektivtilbudet ...

I investigate whether regional heterogeneity in house price growth can be explained by topographic and regulatory supply constraints. I motivate my analysis with a simple supply and demand model for the Norwegian housing ...

Diapers are sold at much lower prices in Norway than in the rest of Europe. The large price difference has led to smuggling of diapers, mainly to Eastern-European countries. The diaper smuggler gain both from the price ...

This thesis is an empirical investigation and application of the hybrid New Keynesian Phillips Curve (hybrid NKPC) on Ghanaian economy from 1993 to 2015. The paper seeks to test the ability of the hybrid NKPC in explaining ...

Er det boligboble i de regionale boligmarkedene? Avhandlingen forsøker gjennom blant annet en økonometrisk metode og finansindikatoren P/E å oppdage eventuelle boligbobler i Oslo og Rogaland i sanntid. Hovedmålet er å ...

The aim of this thesis is to assess the possible effects of Vietnam’s accession to the World Trade Organization on its bilateral trade. In order to accomplish this, I employed an augmented gravity equation and used a panel ...

Denne masteroppgaven analyserer samfunnsøkonomisk effektive kapasitetsutvidelser i statlige foretak med bindende kapasitetsbegrensninger og udelelige investeringer. Dette gjøres innenfor et dynamisk rammeverk med voksende ...

I consider a society with heterogeneous individuals who can form organizations for the production of a differentiated public good. A decentralized arrangement of organizations is said to be split‐up stable whenever there ...

By replicating earlier research in convergence theory, this thesis is seen as complement by applying updated data to different approaches. I will present the results by Baumol (1986), De Long (1988), Barro (1991) and ...

This thesis investigates how yearly occupational mobility has developed in Norway between the years 1972 and 2015. It also analyses the characteristics of workers that experienced the most occupational switches, and control ...

Exhaustible resources, like oil and gas, play an important strategic role in the world economy. Almost 30 years of oil domination, has resulted in acceptance of oil as a prime commodity in the transport sector, and has not ...

Det er 165 millioner kortvokste barn i verden i dag, og 57.2 millioner av disse lever i Afrika sør for Sahara (UNICEF, 2013). Kortvoksthet har alvorlige konsekvenser på individuelt nivå og kan svekke et lands humankapital ...

With a growing focus on macroprudential policy in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007/2008, there is a need for early warning systems. The object of the thesis is to present a toolbox for signaling systemic banking ...

Is immigration a burden or a benefit to host countries? This issue can be studied by looking at how the economic components of the receiving country’s output are affected. Based on the methods of Ortega and Peri (2009) and ...

I England ble det påvist systematisk fusk ved kvotering av den engelske interbankraten Libor. Oppgaven gjennomgår likheter og ulikheter mellom den norske og den engelske interbankraten, og drøfter problematikken som oppstår ...