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 ...

Currently, the price of oil is approaching its highest point since 2015. Based on the hypothesis that oil prices are cycling into a bull market, it is a natural deduction that the Norwegian Krone (NOK) will appreciate since ...

The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the development of wealth and income inequality in Norway from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 until around 1930, with a particular emphasis on the distributional effects ...

Many macroeconomic variables are first available when they have already become part of the past. At the same time, there is a large set of figures that is indeed available without the same delay. This thesis use machine ...

Recent increases in housing prices in Norway, especially in the capital, Oslo, has once again raised discussions on how long the prices in the housing market can continue to rise before a major correction might take place. ...

I denne oppgaven analyseres en dynamisk økonomi som står overfor muligheten for å nå to stokastiske terskler. Ved produksjon akkumuleres klimagassutslipp i atmosfæren, og ved et ukjent nivå akkumulert utslipp, vil en ...

Is it possible to examine the evolution of the tax burden in Norway over time? I address this question using data on direct and indirect tax revenue both for the state and municipalities from 1936 to 2015. Following the ...

Oppgavens hensikt er å analysere ulike aspekter ved den aggregerte matchingfunksjonen som tidligere ikke har vært gjennomført i Norge og således bidra med ny innsikt på fagområdet. Vi estimerer funksjonen med minste ...

Increasing the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix is essential for achieving the goal of the Paris Agreement and for ensuring universal access to energy. Hitherto, governments have not managed to establish ...

Inflation expectations are essential for understanding inflation dynamics. However, there is little knowledge regarding how these expectations are formed. Survey data observe different inflation expectations among groups, ...

In this thesis, I investigate the relationship between two different water monitoring options, and their impact on optimal water treatment and health. To see whether one monitoring option has an advantage compared to the ...

The thesis analyzes how the oil price drop impacted employment, wages and job mobility for petroleum workers in Rogaland and Hordaland counties during 2014 – 2016 years. I compare these oil workers to the comparable non-oil ...

In this thesis, I empirically examine how political ideology and the occurrence of parliamentary elections affect the demand for defense spending in Norway in the context of the domestic economy and the external security ...

The threat of automation got enormous attention after Frey and Osborne published their seminal paper in 2013, which examined how susceptible jobs were to computerisation. Their finding that almost half of the jobs were at ...

På midten av 1800-tallet var spedbarnsdødeligheten i Norge på nivå med mange av nåtidens utviklingsland, men fra slutten av 1800-tallet til midten av 1900- tallet skjedde en dramatisk reduksjon. Ved å bruke nylig digitaliserte ...

Ifølge Verdens helserapport (OECD) underkonsumerer vi grønnsaker, frukt, fisk og fiberrik mat, og overkonsumerer prosessert mat og mat rik på fett, sukker og salt. Konsekvensene av dette er blant annet at antall mennesker ...

Nyere adferdsøkonomisk forskning tyder på at tilrettelegging av valgsituasjoner kan ha en effekt på hva slags mat man velger å konsumere (Wilson, Buckley, Buckley, og Bogomolova, 2016). En slik tilrettelegging kalles gjerne ...

Bilateral flows of both people (via migration) and goods (via trade) between countries are imperative in the field of international economics and share many common characteristics. This thesis attempts to examine the ...

I denne oppgaven ønsker jeg å analysere og identifisere effekter på boligprisene av den innstrammede boliglånsforskriften som trådte i kraft 1.januar 2017. Både nasjonale og regionale boligpriser vil bli analysert. ...

In this thesis I deal with the relation between economic growth and income inequality to study how a long period with substantial economic growth affect income inequality. I investigate what effect economic growth has had ...

Within the in European Union there exists a bundle of different policies promoting renewable energy deployment and punishing CO2-emissions in energy production. These policies exist simultaneously in the domestic and ...

The high degree of concentration in the Norwegian grocery industry has lately been a much debated topic, and relative differences in purchasing prices among the grocery retail chains have been given part of the blame. This ...

This paper develops a multicountry model of international trade that provides a simple microfoundation for buyer-seller relationships in trade. We explore a rich data set that identifies buyers and sellers in trade and ...

The aim of this thesis was to examine to what extent Norwegian export to China was affected by the sanctions China imposed on Norway following the Nobel Peace Prize award to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in 2010. The thesis ...

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the implications of cash-for-care eligibility on maternal labor supply and to find out if these effects are persistent over time. The cash-for-care benefit in Norway studied in ...

This paper investigates the effects of changes in public investment on industrial output, nominal industry wages and household consumption, to identify the channel through which public spending affects aggregate demand and ...

This thesis investigates the real compensation- labor productivity gap in the United States, using annual time series data from 1947 to 2017 for the manufacturing and non-farm business sector. The thesis estimates a Wage ...

This thesis analyzes whether inflation rates, government bonds and corruption levels have an impact on the difference between local prices of bitcoin and prices on the most liquid exchanges globally. Bitcoin may act as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a fish stock shifts from one nation to another nation, e.g., due to climate change, the nation that loses the resource has incentives to deplete it, while the other nation, receiving the resource, has incentives to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...