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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The thesis consists of seven essays dealing with policies to mitigate climate change. The first three essays analyze aspects of international cooperation to abate emissions. More specifically, the first essay studies the ...

In this thesis, I study the determinants of migration to Norway for the period of 2003 – 2013. I adapt the migration model developed by Clark et al. (2007) to Norway in order to explore the background factors in the source ...

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 ...

China’s high household savings rate has been continually debated in the past three decades. The wave of existing literatures has provided a considerable innovative theoretical ideas and empirical estimates. In recent years, ...

I 1947 ble handelsavtalen General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) signert. Det var 23 stater som signerte og forpliktet seg til avtalen som hadde som formål å forenkle handel på tvers av landegrenser og løse opp ...

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 ...

This thesis explores the feasibility of the Nordic model as a growth strategy for developing countries. Its empirical strategy is to use a panel of Indian states with data from the manufacturing sector to test key implications ...

Velferdsstaten vil bli satt på prøve i møtet med en voksende andel eldre i befolkningen. Utfordringen er at andelen som er i arbeid målt i forhold til de som mottar trygdeytelser – særlig alderspensjon - krymper. Det blir ...

In this thesis I set out to examine the relationships between growth, inequality and redistribution. It has been difficult to disentangle cause and effect definitively in these relationships. Still, the literature is mainly ...

A loan-to-value borrowing constraint is a significant restriction on household behavior. All policy intervention seeks to steer agents' behavior away from what individual agents would consider optimal in the absence of ...

The natural gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine in January 2009 caused severe shortages of natural gas in Europe. As a response to the supply disruption, is the EU envisaging a potential for renewable energy sources to ...

The distorting effects that lead to unintended behavioral responses in the population are an important aspect of any tax system. The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is a measure aimed at capturing all such behavioral ...

The article present a three period olg model showing how households can use housing investment to smooth consumption of housing services and consumption goods over the life cycle in the presence of borrowing constraints. ...

In this thesis I expand the results of Leamer (2007) to the rest of the OECD, to see if there is any generality to housing leading the business cycle. I find that some, but not all, recessions fit the pattern. I then move ...

This thesis considers the fact and sources of wage inequality across cities within the national boundary by investigating some essential deviations from a perfect world or a perfect economy. In general, equalized factor ...

I denne oppgaven er det gjennomført en samfunnsøkonomisk analyse av et av Norges største biogassanlegg. Anlegget ble bygd i Tønsberg høsten 2015, som et bidrag til det grønne skiftet, og har fått status som nasjonalt ...

ABSTRACT What are the determinants of R&D investments? This question is addressed by discussions and reviews of the major works in the literature of innovation. The complementing, and sometimes conflicting, conclusions and ...

Nonfarm activities in developing countries are important source of income for rural households next to agriculture. So, taking this into consideration, the thesis analyzes the determinants for rural households nonfarm ...

Lately, increased greenhouse gas emissions and the scarcity of our natural resources have been important issues on the politician’s agenda. The Municipality of Oslo decided to tackle these problems through improving the ...

Denne masterutredningen sammenligner utviklingen i norsk økonomi i kjølvannet av oljeprisfallene i henholdsvis første kvartal 1986 og tredje kvartal 2014. I tiden etter det første oljeprissjokket gikk den norske økonomien ...

In this thesis I investigate whether there can be found traces of effects predicted by the Stolper Samuelson theorem to follow from changes in the price of oil in the Norwegian economy, between 1992 and 2013. Although ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper will look at the business side of football, how clubs generate income, how income is distributed between competing clubs, and how this distribution affects the utility for the fans, who are the end consumers in ...

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 ...

The aim of this thesis is to explore a new way of estimating to what degree the conflicts in eastern Congo, more specifically the Kivu regions, have altered the risk of experiencing sexual violence. I estimate this ...

Abstract This study analysed actual determinants of small holder farmers’ crop choice based on a cross-sectional survey collected by IFPRI (2009) by taking a total of 8,885 sample farm plots. A multinomial discrete choice ...

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 ...

In this master’s thesis, I explain the concept of profit shifting within multinational enterprises and investigate whether petroleum companies on the Norwegian and British continental shelves engage in tax motivated profit ...

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was created in the early 2000s as a response to the growing concern of the natural resource curse. By using EITI s own documents and related theory, I propose a ...

Norge blir et stadig mer multikulturelt land med mennesker fra hele verden. Denne trenden ser ut til å fortsette også i årene som kommer. For at velferdstjenestene i Norge skal kunne opprettholdes på det nivået vi er vant ...

This thesis develops a structural vector autoregression model of the global crude market, motivating and extending the analysis of \cite{kilian2009not} with a novel indicator of real non-OPEC extraction cost as an exogenous ...

This thesis employs a model of household utility to formalize the following hypothesis: Households of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Colombia with higher levels of gender inequality are displaced later than those ...

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 ...

Abstract There are economic incentives in the funding system which may cause distorted outcomes in the composition of long-term care (LTC) services in Norway. Øien (2014) concludes that cost shifting has taken place by the ...