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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Økonomisk atferd i en verden i forandring
Norsk økonomi opplever av og til store forstyrrelser eller skift som kan påvirke økonomisk atferd. Et av hovedfunnene i avhandlingen er at konsumatferden i Norge, med inntekt og ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This paper uses detailed register information on students in lower secondary school in Norway to study the importance of the second moment of individual grade distribution: grade variance. Students receive discrete-value ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne oppgaven drøfter hvorvidt Norge bør redusere sin oljeutvinning fram mot 2030 av hensyn til klimaet. Oppgaven gjennomgår relevant litteratur på tilbudssidepolitikk, redegjør for norsk oljevirksomhet i dag og diskuterer ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Using a random judge design and panel data from Norway, we estimate that imprisonment discourages further criminal behavior, with reoffense probabilities falling by 29 percentage points and criminal charges dropping by 11 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We show how the condition of stationarity may contradict intergenerational equity. By formalizing the intuition that less sensitivity remains for the continuation of the stream if sensitivity for the interests of the present ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Parisavtalens klimamål er å holde global oppvarming under 2°C, aller helst 1,5°C. For å nå dette målet har man hovedsakelig fokusert på klimatiltak som retter seg mot å redusere etterspørselen etter fossilt brensel. Global ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Implementeringen av trinn 1 i Oslopakke 3 den 1. oktober 2017 innebar en generell prisøkning av bomtakstene i Osloringen, men også en innføring av miljø- og tidsdifferensierte takster for første gang. I denne oppgaven ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The sick leave level in Norway is known to be high compared to other countries with similar welfare systems. One of the most important indicators for sick leave is socio-economic standing, and education is an essential ...
Britain’s accession to the EU - An empirical analysis applying the gravity equation Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The Causal Long Run Effect of Extreme Weather Events on State Capacity Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
In this thesis I investigate the inequality in opportunity for income in Norway. In contrast to studies utilizing Roemer's (1993) identifying monotonicity assumption, I propose a direct measure of effort that does not ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Intimate partner violence affects one out of three women globally. In India, the numbers are even higher. This is not just a major health issue; the economic implications are also an important aspect of it. Actions that ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This paper examines leisure complementarities in the joint retirement decisions of couples by quantifying the effect of the 2011 Norwegian pension reform. The reform abolished an earnings test on early retirement benefits ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
I denne oppgaven kvantifiseres etterspørselseffektene av tiltaket som går under navnet «Oslos nye grunnrute». Tiltaket hadde som hensikt å øke frekvensen i togtrafikken gjennom Oslo og gi et mer punktlig og oversiktlig ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
An online survey with 115 participants, conducted between February and May 2020, delivered results on second-mover behavior and motivations in sequential games. The survey games were based on games from an experiment by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
I Norge er det politisk enighet om å overføre gods, fra veitransport og over på mer miljøvennlige transportmidler, blant annet jernbane. Et mulig virkemiddel for å få til en slik godsoverføring, kan være å investere i ny ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
I use the model KONSUM-G to simulate reforms in the duty-free arrangement on alcohol and tobacco in Norway. The model consists of a complete demand system for private consumption in Norway, and was originally developed to ...
Norsk elbilpolitikk: Subsidier og nettverkseffekter Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne oppgaven diskuterer hvorvidt elbilsubsidiene er for høye hvis man tar hensyn til at det er nettverkseksternaliteter. I den norske debatten om elbilsubsidier har det blitt hevdet at subsidiene er for høye hvis formålet ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Significant amounts of public spending are allocated towards research on climate change, but considerable uncertainties remain. We analyze the strategic role of information acquisition and the determinants of investments ...
Heterogeneous Responses in Investment to Monetary Policy Shocks Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Humans are fundamentally social. Social activities require coordination, possibly leading to multiple equilibria in the form of self-reinforcing patterns of herd behavior. When alternative equilibria differ substantially ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne masteroppgaven undersøker effekten av “Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act” (MGNREGA) på spedbarnsdødelighet i rurale India. MGNREGA er et offentlig sysselsettingsprogram som gir husholdninger ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
I investigate the impact of assignment to copayment on demand for consultations with general practitioners, for Norwegian individuals at age 16. In addition to study the overall change in demand, I study how the estimated ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Future trends in population size, age structure, regional distribution, and other demographic variables are important for a wide range of planning situations. Hence, many statistical agencies and independent researchers ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Several studies have shown that women and men with two children have lower mortality than the childless, but there is less certainty about mortality, including CVD mortality, at higher parities and meagre knowledge about ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This paper addresses the evaluation of intergenerational allocations in an uncertain world. It axiomatically characterizes a class of criteria, named reference-dependent utilitarian, that assess allocations relative to a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
I use the implementation of the BASEL III accord in Norway to study the behaviour of foreign branches when host countries domestic banks face higher capital requirements. Using a government database containing banks financial ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
In this article, I explore how to identify zone pricing, highlighting its place in understanding the structure of grocery markets. Different definitions of price zones are discussed in terms of theory, assumptions, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Many countries offer state credit guarantees to support credit-constrained exporters. The policy instrument is commonly justified by governments as a means to mitigating adverse outcomes of financial market frictions for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In social insurance systems that grant workers paid sick leave, physicians act as gatekeepers, supposedly granting sickness certificates to the sick and not to shirkers. Previous research has emphasized the physician's ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The interest in mitigating environmental concerns substantially increased over the past years and more governments propose the introduction of additional environmental taxation. This development raises the important question ...
The Household Cash-Flow Channel of Monetary Policy in Norway Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Household consumption is affected by monetary policy through different channels. This thesis aims to identify the cash-flow channel of monetary policy and how household consumption is affected by a change in the policy ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We consider a principal who faces many identical competitors, and who can distribute a prize fund over two consecutive contests. The winner of contest one gains an advantage in contest two where his effort is more productive ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne oppgaven tar for seg allmenngjorte tariffavtaler i Norge i perioden 2004-2019. Det er gjort forsøk på å kartlegge virkeområdet til hver enkelt avtale, for å kunne gi et anslag av hvor mange arbeidere som er berørt. ...
(Master thesis, Group thesis / Masteroppgave, Gruppeoppgave, 2020)
In this paper, I analyze the question of whether European socially responsible mutual funds outperform or underperform conventional funds between 2010 and 2020. Further, I investigate whether the funds have different ...
Virkemidler for å redusere køkjøring - en kost-nytte-analyse av rushtidsavgift og fleksible arbeidsordninger Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne oppgaven ser på eksterne kostnader av køkjøring og ulike virkemidler for å redusere dette. Ved hjelp av en teoretisk modell av trafikkvolum og tilgjengelige estimater fra litteraturen gjør jeg en kost-nytte-analyse ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis has revisited the role of union membership, collective agreements and establishment union density for wage levels and dispersion in the period 2004-2011. To investigate the wage effect from these three covariates, ...
Competition in the Norwegian Non-Life Insurance Market Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Many statistical agencies routinely produce population forecasts, and revise these forecasts when new data become available, or when current demographic trends indicate that an update is necessary. When the forecaster ...
The environmental flattening of the New-Keynesian Phillips-curve Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2020)
Violence against women is persisting in many parts of the world. At the same time, there is a global trend of increased female labour force participation. In this paper we study the effect on intimate partner violence of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The literature within development economics generally assumes the hypothesis of an inverse size-productivity relationship of agriculture. Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), this thesis provides an empirical analysis ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis is aimed at studying how income uncertainty shocks can affect household consumption and saving. By using an extended life cycle model combined with proxies of uncertainty the paper attempts to describe the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis investigates the welfare effects of using the real exchange rate as a deciding factor in the conduction of monetary policy in a small open economy. A New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
De siste 15 årene har andelen unge mottakere av uføretrygd doblet seg. Dette medfører store samfunnsøkonomiske kostnader, både for det offentlige og for personene det gjelder. I 2019 ble folketrygdens totale utgifter for ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
While redistribution and the need for government revenue typically make up the arguments for the taxation of net wealth, the distortion of savings and the adverse effect on entrepreneurship is by many held up as the gloomy ...
Exchange Rate Movements and Manufacturing Employment Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Using detailed Norwegian firm level tax data together with trade data, I exploit a natural experiment to isolate the employment effects stemming from a currency depreciation. By comparing manufacturing firms with differential ...
The Effect of Hukou on Capital-Intensity in Chinese Textile Industry: An Empirical Analysis Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Ved hjelp av aktsomhetskart og skadeberegninger analyseres flomrisiko som følge klimaendringer for Trondheim Spektrum i et hydrologisk og samfunnsøkonomisk perspektiv. Trondheim Spektrum er en arena for sport, næringsliv ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The Norwegian labor union density rate has been falling over the last decades, even though the country's labor unions play a crucial role in tariff agreement negotiations. To understand the drivers of dwindling union density ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Standard economic theory teaches us that it is efficient for firms to maximize profits, motivated by the traditional Friedman argument that firms social responsibility is to maximize profits and increase the value for their ...
Har tilskudd til lokale lag og foreninger (LAM) effekt på deltakelse i organisert idrett i Oslo kommune? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Kan strategisk politikk forklare endring i offentlig gjeld? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne oppgaven undersøker konkurranseforhold i den norske verdikjeden for dagligvarer. Oppgaven tar sikte på å undersøke hvordan prisdiskriminering og importvern virker inn på konkurransen i verdikjeden. Formålet er å ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Does central bank shocks impact foreign countries? This thesis investigates the transmission of a Euro-region monetary policy shock to foreign countries using a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model. This is accomplished ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Background: Several studies of how reproductive factors affect child mortality or other child outcomes have been based on sibling comparisons. With such models one controls for unobserved determinants of the outcome that ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Økonomisk teori tilsier at usikkerhet knyttet til fremtidig inntekt fører til at fremadskuende individer venter med å få barn. I denne oppgaven tester jeg denne hypotesen empirisk, ved å ta utgangspunkt i det norske ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg effektene av innstrammingene i boliglånsforskriften 1. januar 2017. Oppgaven forsøker å belyse om innstrammingen har hatt effekt i form av lavere kreditt- og boligprisvekst, med hovedfokus ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis explores the possibility of government intervention, in the presence of poverty traps, resulting from indivisibilities in human capital formation and capital market imperfections. Generally, capital markets are ...
Leftover Women in China: A theoretical study of the impact of the One-Child Policy on the Chinese marriage market Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis will focus on developing a dynamic two-sided search model to describe the marriage market in contemporary China. The situation of the marriage market in China is unique, given the sex ratio imbalance, where it ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We examine the investment rule that must be satisfied by an efficient and egalitarian path in a discrete-time version of the Dasgupta–Heal–Solow model of capital accumulation and resource depletion. In the discrete-time ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Resilience has become an important topic in many social sciences. Numerous individual choices and economic and demographic outcomes are likely to be influenced by people's resilience. School performance, work absenteeism ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We study the consequences of age-dependent preferences for economic growth and structural change in a two-sector model with overlapping generations and non-dimishing returns to capital. Savings and accumulation rates depend ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We consider incentives for organizing competitions in multiple rounds, focusing on situations where there is heterogeneity among the contestants ex ante, which discourages effort in a single contest. Heterogeneity evolves ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The recent article ‘Satellite conjunction analysis and the false confidence theorem’ (Balch et al. 2019, Satellite conjunction analysis and the false confidence theorem. Proc. R. Soc. A475, 20180565) points to certain ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We demonstrate how a probabilistic population forecast can be evaluated, when observations for the predicted variables become available. Statisticians have developed various scoring rules for that purpose, but there are ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Our aim in this study was to analyze the importance of childbearing for risk of inflammatory bowel disease. Using data from the Norwegian Population Register and the Norwegian Patient Register, we fitted discrete-time ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
We provide a new estimate of household-level housing wealth in Norway between 1993 and 2015 using an ensemble machine learning method on housing transaction data. The new housing wealth measure is an improvement over ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In contest settings, heterogeneity between contestants generally leads to low effort provision, and many instruments have been suggested to restore competitive balance. We suggest that heterogeneity may evolve depending ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Merger policy is a permission-granting activity by government in which there may be disincentives to seek permission because of the benefit from having other firms merge. We set up a sequential merger game with endogenized ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Do people try to avoid unpleasant information about the environmental consequences of their actions? If so, do they react with hostility towards others who provide the unwanted information? Fearing such hostility, do others ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This paper analyzes a game in which countries repeatedly make emission and technology investment decisions. We derive the best equilibrium, that is, the Pareto-optimal subgame-perfect equilibrium, when countries are ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
We construct a dynamic theory of sovereign debt and structural reforms with limited enforcement and moral hazard. A sovereign country in recession wishes to smooth consumption. It can also undertake costly reforms to speed ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Klimaavtalene Norge har inngått, samt nasjonale målsetninger knyttet til klimagassutslipp og forbruk tyder på at norsk jordbruk må gjennom en omstilling frem mot 2030. For det første har Norge inngått en fleksibel klimaavtale ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
In "The Theory of Wages" John Hicks presents the situation known as the Hicks Paradox. He argues that strikes were not pareto optimal since a strike will shrink the pie as the employer and the worker pleads over it (Hicks, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
I denne oppgaven studerer jeg det norske arbeidsmarkedet i perioden 2004-2013 og undersøker hvorvidt endrede arbeidsvilkår (deltidsarbeid, midlertidige ansettelser, bruk av bemanningsbyrå) er et aspekt ved jobbpolarisering. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
I denne oppgaven ser jeg på effektene av dereguleringen i offentlig sektor i 1990. Jeg ser nærmere på effektene dereguleringen av lønnsfastsettelsen har hatt på avkastning av erfaring, sannsynligheten for å jobbe i offentlig ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
We investigate the effect of Head Start on education and wage income for individuals in their 30s in the NLSY79. We contribute to the existing literature by examining effects across the outcome distributions, using an ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis analyzes whether development of technology for renewable energy is affected by knowledge flows between firms worldwide. The innovation in renewables are compared to all other inventions in order to see if the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
It is commonly acknowledged that historically high levels of house prices and household debt pose risks for macroeconomic and financial stability in Norway. This thesis is aimed at understanding what are the driving forces ...
Effekten av økonomiske insentiver på elbilsalget En empirisk analyse av elbilinsentiver i Norge på 2000-tallet Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)