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Three Essays on the Economics of Education in Upper Secondary Schooling
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:162, Doctoral thesis, 2017)The thesis is a collection of three papers on the economics of education. All three use administrative data from Norwegian upper secondary education. The papers all take advantage of quasi-experimental variation to assess ... -
Predikering av realprisen på laks
(Master thesis, 2017)I denne oppgaven benyttes VAR-modellering for å predikere realprisen på laks. Analysen tar utgangspunkt i et unikt datasett med månedlige observasjoner fra 2000(1) til 2016(12). Johansen’s test for kointegrerte vektorer ... -
Airport consolidation and the provision of air services
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Airport policy involves decisions about not only the sizes of airports but how many airports should serve a given area. I test the arguments for airport consolidation by estimating the effect of the number of airports on ... -
Do Smaller Classes Always Improve Students' Long-run Outcomes?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)We exploit the strict class size rule in Norway and matched individual and school register information for 1982–2011 to estimate long-run causal effects on income and educational attainment. Contrary to recent evidence ... -
The profitability of the BEER in the Norwegian market
(Master thesis, 2017)The thesis sets out to examine if the properties of the Bond Equity Earnings Yield ratio (BEER), and the Norwegian economy’s relation to the oil market, in combination with a suitable econometric model, can be used to ... -
Forecast Robustness in Macroeconometric Models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper investigates potential invariance of mean forecast errors to structural breaks in the data generating process. From the general forecasting literature, such robustness is expected to be a rare occurrence. With ... -
En analyse av kraftproduksjonen i OECD-landene i perioden 1980-2014 - I hvilken grad har kraftproduksjon ved bruk av ikke-fossile kilder erstattet kraftproduksjon ved bruk av fossile kilder?
(Master thesis, 2017)I 2014 stod OECD for 45 % av verdens samlede kraftproduksjon, og store deler av produksjonen kom fra bruken av fossile kraftkilder (59%). Økt miljøfokus har de siste tiårene ført til en fremvekst i bruken av mindre ... -
Norges Bank leaning against the wind - Costs and benefits
(Master thesis, 2017)The question whether central banks should emphasize financial stability when setting their policy rate has created an ongoing debate among policy makers and economists since the Global Financial Crisis. In this thesis, I ... -
Empirical Tests of Multifactor Capital Asset Pricing Models and Business Cycles. U.S. Stock Market Evidence Before, During and After the Great Recession
(Master thesis, 2017)I estimate and perform empirical tests on the three most commonly used multifactor capital asset pricing models - Fama and French three-factor, Carhart four-factor and Fama and French four-factor models - in the U.S. stock ... -
Asylsøkere og stemmegivning ved stortings- og kommunevalg: En empirisk analyse
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Paradox Lost: The Disappearing Female Job Satisfaction Premium
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Using the original data source of Clark, we show that over the last two decades the female satisfaction gap he documented has vanished. This reflects a strong secular decline in female job satisfaction. This decline happened ... -
Does media attention affect Bitcoin return, and thus explain investor attractiveness? - A categorization- and demand analysis of Bitcoin
(Master thesis, 2018)Denne avhandlingens mål er å analysere om medieoppmerksomhet er en drivende faktor i etterspørselen etter Bitcoin, og på så måte avkastning på Bitcoin. Et nyttig verktøy i denne analysen er å kategorisere Bitcoin. De to ... -
The Effect of Seniority on the Pricing and Risk of Corporate Debt
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis looks at what effect seniority has on corporate debt. I have used a theoretical approach and expanded the model developed by Merton (1974). My analysis is based on the corporate debt being pure discount bonds. ... -
Sector Correlation as a U.S Recession Predictor
(Master thesis, 2018)Based on a notion proposed in Dagens Næringsliv 15th of May 2017 we test if low correlations between sector returns can predict an upcoming recession. Using sector returns from the S&P 500, with weekly and monthly observations ... -
Earning or Learning? How Extending Closing Time in the Retail Sector Affects Youth Employment and Education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper estimates the causal impact of increased demand for low‐skilled workers on youth employment, and short and long run education. We exploit quasi‐experimental demand shifts for retail workers due to changes in ... -
Nasjonal og regional boligprisdynamikk: Hvilke faktorer er viktige og finnes det forskjeller?
(Master thesis, 2018)Denne oppgaven undersøker nasjonal og regional boligprisdynamikk på kort og lang sikt. Det anvendes økonometriske metoder, herunder feiljusteringsmodeller for tidsseriedata og ”fixed effects”-estimering med paneldata, for ... -
Den nøytrale renten i Norge - Har den nøytrale renten i Norge falt siden 1980
(Master thesis, 2018)I denne oppgaven ønsket jeg å finne ut av om den nøytrale renten i Norge har falt siden 1980. Den nøytrale renten defineres som det realrentenivået som over en konjunktursykel vil gi lukket produksjonsgap og konstant ... -
Heterogene effekter av smågruppeundervisning på elevprestasjoner - En empirisk analyse basert på data fra norsk barneskole
(Master thesis, 2018)Prestasjonene til norske elever i barneskolen er ikke på nivå med myndighetenes målsetting. Etter skuffende resultater i internasjonale undersøkelser i senere år, har oppmerksomheten rundt norske elevers matematikkferdigheter ... -
Analyzing the difference in excess returns between senior and covered bond pairs using a factor model approach - An empirical study
(Master thesis, 2018)Covered bonds are investment grade bonds that are backed up by collateral. Senior bonds are unsecured, but have the highest seniority among creditors should the issuer default. Collateral is the main separator of covered ...