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    • Wage Bargaining and Monopsony 

      Falch, Torberg; Strøm, Bjarne (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2004:8, Research report, 2004)
      This paper identifies three possible outcomes of higher relative firm bargaining power in a unionized firm facing an upward sloping labor supply curve. The conventional regime with reduced wage and higher employment ...

    • Designing Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs): Illegal hunting, wildlife conservation and the welfare of the local people 

      Johannesen, Anne B. (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2004:2, Research report, 2004)
      This paper develops a bio-economic model to explore the effect on illegal hunting, wildlife conservation and human welfare of the most common instruments of existing ICDPs. It is demonstrated that stimulating working ...

    • Wildlife Conservation Policies and Incentives to Hunt: An empirical analysis of illegal hunting in western Serengeti, Tanzania 

      Johannesen, Anne B. (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2004:3, Research report, 2004)
      This paper investigates factors determining participation and effort in illegal hunting, using cross-section survey data from households in western Serengeti, Tanzania. One purpose of the analysis is to study the impact ...

    • Savers, Spenders and Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy 

      Matsen, Egil; Sveen, Tommy; Torvik, Ragnar (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2004:12, Research report, 2004)
      This paper analyzes the effects of fiscal policy in an open economy. We extend the savers-spenders theory of Mankiw (2000) to a small open economy with endogenous labor supply. We first show how the Dornbusch (1983) ...

    • Managing a Migratory Species that is both a Value and Pest 

      Jon Olaf,; Skonhoft, Anders (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2004:4, Research report, 2004)
      Wild animals can represent both value and nuisance. We consider the moose (Alces alces), which due to seasonal migration causes browsing damage in some areas while creating hunting value in other areas. We first explore a ...

    • Tourism, Poaching and Wildlife Conservation: What can Integrated Conservation and Development Projects accomplish? 

      Johannesen, Anne B.; Skonhoft, Anders (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2004:10, Research report, 2004)
      Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) have frequently been established in Africa to improve wildlife conservation and the welfare of local communities. However, their effectiveness so far has been hampered ...

    • Conservation of Wildlife: A bio-economic model of a wildlife reserve under the pressure of habitat destruction and harvesting outside the reserve 

      Armstrong, Claire W.; Skonhoft, Anders (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2004:9, Research report, 2004)
      Biodiversity is today threatened by many factors of which destruction and reduction of habitats are considered most important for terrestrial species. One way to counteract these threats is to establish reserves with ...

    • Teacher Turnover and Non-Pecuniary Factors 

      Falch, Torberg; Strøm, Bjarne (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2004:1, Research report, 2004)
      This paper studies teacher mobility using matched employee-employer panel data from Norwegian primary and lower secondary schools. The Norwegian institutional set-up with completely centralized wage setting for teachers ...

    • Ramsey Model of Barriers to Growth and Skill-Based Income Distribution in South Africa 

      Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn E. (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2004:11, Research report, 2004)
      The paper integrates two mechanisms of economic growth, barriers to international spillovers and skill-biased effects on the income distribution. South Africa is an interesting case study because of dramatic changes in ...

    • Modelling Inflation in the Euro Area 

      Jansen, Eilev S. (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2004:6, Research report, 2004)
      The paper presents an incomplete competition model (ICM), where inflation is determined jointly with unit labour cost growth. The ICM is estimated on data for the Euro area and evaluated against existing models, i.e. the ...

    • Budget institutions, politics and fiscal outcomes: Five essays on local government policy outcomes 

      Tovmo, Per (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2004:20, Doctoral thesis, 2004)
      This thesis contains five empirical papers on policy outcomes in local government. Four of the papers are based on Norwegian data, while one is based on data from Danish local governments. Three of the studies on Norwegian ...

    • Property Taxation as a Determinant of School District Efficiency 

      Fiva, Jon Hernes; Rønning, Marte (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:4, Research report, 2005)
      Recent theoretical contributions have emphasized the favorable incentive effects of property taxation. The object of this paper is to confront these theories with norwegian data on student performance. The institutional ...

    • Marine reserves: A bio-economic model with asymmetric density dependent migration 

      Armstrong, Claire W.; Skonhoft, Anders (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:3, Research report, 2005)
      A static bioeconomic model of a marine reserve allowing asymmetric density dependent migration between the reserve and the fishable area is introduced. This opens for habitat or ecosystem differences allowing different ...

    • Monetary policy and asset prices: To respond or not? 

      Akram, Q. Farooq; Bårdsen, Gunnar; Eitrheim, Øyvind (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:7, Research report, 2005)
      We investigate whether there is a case for asset prices in interest rates rules within a small econometric model of the Norwegian economy, modeling the interdependence of the real economy, credit and three classes of assets ...

    • The costs and benefits of animal predation: An analysis of Scandinavian wolf re-colonization 

      Skonhoft, Anders (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:8, Research report, 2005)
      After coming close to extinction, the grey wolf (Canis lupus) has re-colonized Scandinavia during the last two decades. The current population numbers some 100–120 individuals, and is distributed in small packs along the ...

    • Protected areas, wildlife conservation and local welfare 

      Johannesen, Anne B. (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:13, Research report, 2005)
      The establishment and expansion of protected areas in Africa have been motivated by the aspiration of increased wildlife abundance. During the past decades, however, this practise has been subject to a massive debate. While ...

    • Efficiency potential and efficiency variation in Norwegian lower secondary schools 

      Borge, Lars-Erik; Naper, Linn Renée (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:15, Research report, 2005)
      The paper performs an efficiency analysis of the lower secondary school sector in Norway. The efficiency potential is calculated to 14 percent based on a DEA analysis with grades in core subjects (adjusted for student ...

    • Carl Barks: A classical economist? 

      Bårdsen, Gunnar (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:5, Research report, 2005)
      The paper gives an introduction to the economic theories of Carl Barks using an interpretation of his analysis of cyclone money as an example.

    • Stylized dynamic model representations - a note 

      Bårdsen, Gunnar (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:16, Research report, 2005)

    • A theory of civil conflict and democracy in rentier states 

      Aslaksen, Silje; Torvik, Ragnar (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:11, Research report, 2005)
      The effects of resource rents on the political equilibrium have been studied in two main types of models. The first tradition employs models of conflict, and studies how resource rents affect the intensity and duration of ...