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    • Cursed by resources or institutions? 

      Mehlum, Halvor; Moene, Karl Ove; Torvik, Ragnar (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:10, Research report, 2005)
      Natural resource abundant countries constitute both growth losers and growth winners, and the main difference between the success cases and the cases of failure lays in the quality of institutions. With grabber friendly ...

    • Decentralization with property taxation to improve incentives: Evidence from local governments’ discrete choice 

      Fiva, Jon Hernes; Rattsø, Jørn (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:6, Research report, 2005)
      Decentralization of government with property tax financing is the standard recipe for public sector reform. Fiscal competition is assumed to stimulate efficiency and hold down the tax level. Property taxation offers ...

    • A political economy theory of the soft budget constraint 

      Robinson, James A.; Torvik, Ragnar (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:9, Research report, 2005)
      Why do soft budget constraints exist and persist? In this paper we argue that the prevalence of soft budget constraints can be best explained by the political desirability of softness. We develop a political economy model ...

    • The economics of a stage-structured wildlife population model 

      Olaussen, Jon Olaf; Skonhoft, Anders (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:17, Research report, 2005)
      A simple three-stage model of the Scandinavian moose (Alces alces) (young, adult female and adult male) is formulated. Fecundity is density dependent while mortality is density independent. Two different harvesting regimes ...

    • The Barrier Model of Productivity Growth: South Africa. 

      Harding, Torfinn; Rattsø, Jørn (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:1, Research report, 2005)
      The barrier model of productivity growth suggests that individual country productivity is related to the world technology frontier disturbed by national barriers. We offer a country study of the barrier model exploiting ...

    • Productivity Growth in Backward Economies and the Role of Barriers to Technology Adoption. 

      Stokke, Hildegunn E. (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:2, Research report, 2005)
      We offer a barrier model of growth with a broader understanding of the sources of productivity growth. Organizational change is suggested as an alternative to innovation and technology adoption. Domestic and international ...

    • On the economics of biological invasion: An application to recreational fishing 

      Olaussen, Jon Olaf (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:12, Research report, 2005)
      The paper demonstrates four general mechanisms that may affect economically valuable species when exposed to biological invasion. We distinguish between an ecological level effect and an ecological growth effect. In addition ...

    • The bioeconomics of a wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) recreational fishery 

      Olaussen, Jon Olaf; Skonhoft, Anders (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2005:14, Research report; Peer reviewed, 2005)
      A biomass model of a wild salmon (Salmo salar) river recreational fishery is formulated, and the ways in which economic and biological conditions influence harvesting, stock size, profitability, and the benefit of the ...

    • Primary Physicians’ Response to Changes in Fees. 

      Grytten, Jostein; Carlsen, Fredrik; Skau, Irene (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:18, Research report, 2006)
      The study examines how the service production of primary physicians in Norway is influenced by changes in fees. The data represent about 2 650 fee-for-service physicians for the years 1995-2000. We constructed a variable ...

    • Portfolio Choice when Managers Control Returns. 

      Matsen, Egil (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:2, Research report, 2006)
      This paper investigates the allocation decision of an investor with two projects. Separate managers control the mean return from each project, and the investor may or may not observe the managers’ actions. We show that the ...

    • An Empirical Analysis of Decentralization, Fiscal Competition and Welfare Policy 

      Fiva, Jon H (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2006:124, Doctoral thesis, 2006)
      While competition among companies tends to be beneficial for the general public, this is not necessarily the case for competition among governments. Key in the fiscal competition theory is that the mobility of firms and ...

    • Gaussian IV estimator of cointegrating relations 

      Bårdsen, Gunnar; Haldrup, Niels (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:3, Research report, 2006)
      In static single equation cointegration regression models the OLS estimator will have a non-standard distribution unless regressors are strictly exogenous. In the literature a number of estimators have been suggested to ...

    • Resource Boom, Productivity Growth and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics - A dynamic general equilibrium analysis of South Africa 

      Stokke, Hildegunn E (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:8, Research report, 2006)
      We study the impact of a natural resource boom on structural change and real exchange rate dynamics, taking into account the indirect effect via relative sectoral productivity changes. Our contribution relative to the Dutch ...

    • Politics in Wage setting: Does government colour matter? 

      Johansen, Kåre; Mydland, Ørjan; Strøm, Bjarne (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:1, Research report, 2006)
      This paper studies the relationship between wage formation and the political colour of the government in an economy with centralized wage bargaining. Ideological, organizational and personal ties between the central trade ...

    • Centralized or decentralized financing of local governments? Consequences for efficiency and inequality of service provision 

      Borge, Lars-Erik (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:14, Research report, 2006)
      Compared with most countries the Norwegian system of financing local governments is highly centralized. Grants make up a substantial part of revenues and local taxes are highly regulated by the center. The development of ...

    • Joker: Choice in a simple game with large stakes. 

      Matsen, Egil; Strøm, Bjarne (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:19, Research report, 2006)
      This paper examines data from the Norwegian television game show Joker, where contestants make well-specified choices under risk. The game involves very large stakes, randomly drawn contestants, and ample opportunities for ...

    • The silence of the lambs 

      Skonhoft, Anders (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:13, Research report, 2006)
      A model analyzing the economics of sheep farming is formulated. The basic idea is simple. Sheep are capital and they are held by farmers as long as their capital value exceeds their slaughter, or meat, value. The farmers ...

    • Constitutions and the resource curse 

      Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Aslaksen, Silja (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:11, Research report, 2006)
      Recent advances in the political economy literature suggests that constitutional arrangements determine a wide range of economic pol icy outcomes. In particular, it is argued that different forms of government (presidential ...

    • Operating costs in Norwegian toll companies: A panel data analysis 

      Amdal, Erik; Bårdsen, Gunnar; Johansen, Kåre; Welde, Morten (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:5, Research report, 2006)
      The objective of this paper is to ease the planning of new toll projects by providing estimates of operating costs, and to help us make better informed decisions about the design of the toll collection system. To do so we ...

    • Playing Chicken with Salmon 

      Olaussen, Jon Olaf (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:10, Research report, 2006)
      Wild Atlantic salmon are traditionally harvested from both the sea and spawning rivers during spawning runs. From an economic point of view, the return from sport fishing in rivers is several times higher than marine ‘for ...