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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Chichilnisky criterion is an explicit social welfare function that satisfies compelling conditions of intergenerational equity. However, it is time inconsistent and has no optimal solution in the Ramsey model. By ...

This paper explores the view that a criterion of intergenerational equity serves to make choices according to ethical intuitions on a domain of relevant technological environments. In line with this view I first calibrate ...

Are the probable future negative effects of climate change an argument for decreasing the discount rate to promote the interests of future generations? The analysis of the present paper suggests that such stronger ...

Climate policies have stochastic consequences that involve a great number of generations. This calls for evaluating social risk (what kind of societies will future people be born into) rather than individual risk (what ...

Abstract World markets are highly interconnected, and the actions and statements of the central bank in one country may influence other countries as well. In this thesis I show that monetary policy shocks of the European ...

With a fall in real GDP growth in recent years, China is about to enter the next stage of its structural transformation. The existence of a dominating state sector impede the transformation. This thesis highlights the two ...

We explore if the geographic variation in excess body-mass in Norway can be explained by socioeconomic status, as this has consequences for public policy. The analysis was based on individual height and weight for 198,311 ...

We define a concept of epistemic robustness in the context of an epistemic model of a finite normal-form game where a player type corresponds to a belief over the profiles of opponent strategies and types. A Cartesian ...

A central question in political economy is whether decision-making in representative democracies is biased towards local public investments or other types of policies which have locally concentrated benefits. The model by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 late 2008 and early 2009, the G8 and the G20 pressured remaining non-cooperative jurisdictions with sanctions if they failed to commit to the OECD standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes ...

Human Trafficking is a worldwide problem where humans are trapped in coercion and exploitation. An estimated 21 million humans are victims to this crime, and even though there is a general agreement of its undesirability, ...

Fremveksten av digitale plattformer hvor brukere kan handle med hverandre er i ferd med å endre økonomien i store deler av verden. Tjenester i den såkalte «delingsøkonomien» reduserer transaksjonskostnader nok til å ...

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 ...

This thesis addresses the effect of fertility on female empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa. Estimating the impact of fertility on female empowerment is difficult because of endogeneity and omitted variables bias. I use ...

Jeg prøver å kaste lys over fenomenet teknologisk arbeidsledighet. Dette er særlig relevant i lys av potensielle fremskritt innen robotteknologi. På tross av gjentatte advarsler fra økonomer og andre, har vi ennå ikke ...

During the last twenty years, developing economies have attempted to attract as much foreign direct investments (FDI) as possible into their countries. Stories about glorious scenarios of improved economic growth, as well ...

We analyze intergenerational redistribution in emerging economies with the aid of an overlapping generations model with endogenous labor supply. Growth is initially high but declines over time. A version of the model ...

In order to stabilize the climate, environmentally friendly energy sources must be developed and improved. The theory of technological change and endogenous growth are crucial when it comes to dealing with the climate ...

Andelen av Norges befolkning med innvandrerbakgrunn har de siste årene økt kraftig. Det er forventet en fortsatt økning i årene som kommer (Tønnesen, Cappelen & Skjerpen, 2014). Økningen i innvandrerbefolkningen de siste ...

Bruk av biodrivstoff som delvis substitutt for fossilt drivstoff antas å kunne redusere klimagassutslipp fra karbondioksid, CO2. Inntil nylig har det vært antatt at bruk av biodrivstoff har vært klimanøytralt, hvilket vil ...

Many world regions are rapidly being exposed to water scarcity and will face challenges of water shortages in the future. A crude approach suggests that one way of dealing with the regional scarcity is through freshwater ...

The effects of the wealth tax have been an endless source of debate in Norway. Those in favor of it claim that it has important distributional properties, while those who want to abolish it usually make their claim on ...

This thesis presents and discusses the theoretical and empirical literature that analyses the effects of monetary policy on financial stability. As a means to clarifi- cation and structure, the thesis will build on the IMF ...

This study is motivated by the effort of the Norwegian Government and the Norwegian Armed Forces to reduce the female flight from Army ranks and looks into peer effects among conscripts in gender mixed rooms in the Norwegian ...

Disability Insurance (DI) programs have long been criticized for their apparent work disincentives. As such, there has been a large debate of whether individuals on DI receipt are capable of work. In this thesis, I provide ...

This thesis investigates the impact of macroeconomics indicators, especially the firm factor on house price index. By using the panel datasets of 35 large cities in China over the year of 2000 to 2009, I empirically test ...

Finansielle institusjoners hovedoppgave er å effektivt allokere kapital i samfunnet. To faktorer er avgjørende for at denne prosessen skal maksimere sosialt overskudd; konkurranse og informasjonsinnsamling. Begge disse ...

In this thesis, I explain the concept of bunching around kink points in the tax schedule, and investigate whether such bunching may be occurring at the kink point created by the Norwegian wealth tax. I conclude that there ...

Denne oppgåva tek føre seg å studere effekten av byråkratisk korrupsjon på utanlandske verksemder i Vietnam. Tre hypotesar vert undersøkte ved å nytte ein instrumentvariabelstrategi. Denne instrumentvariabelstrategien går ...

EØS-avtalens fire friheter endret rammevilkårene for norsk økonomi, men etterfølgende utspilte seg først i etterkant av EU-utvidelsen i 2004. Denne oppgaven tar for seg veksten i arbeidskraftstilbudet til Norge som følge ...

En stadig eldre befolkning trekkes ofte frem som en av de viktigste utfordringene for offentlige finanser de neste tiårene (Holmøy, Kjelvik og Strøm, 2014). Mens økningen i antall eldre i dag i stor grad kommer av variasjoner ...

In this thesis, I study the inflow of remittances into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The flow of remittances has increased massively during the recent decades and is expected to continue growing as ...

Utdanningens effekt på fruktbarhet er et tema som er grundig kartlagt, men variasjoner mellom og innad i land er dårlig forstått. Med bekymringer knyttet til befolkningsvekst og dens konsekvenser for mennesker og miljø, ...

This thesis investigates the impact of exchange rate volatility and exchange rate regimes within a generalized gravity equation and an error correction model using aggregate Nor- wegian data for exports to the UK and US ...