• Estimating the Elasticity of Labour Supply to an Enterprise Utilizing a Quasi-Natural Experiment 

      Falch, Torberg (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2003:7, Research report, 2003)
      This paper utilizes institutional features to identify the supply of labour directed towards individual enterprises. The labour market for Norwegian teachers is characterized by a high degree of central regulations. In the ...
    • Evaluation of macroeconomic models for financial stability analysis 

      Bårdsen, Gunnar; Lindquist, Kjersti-Gro; Tsomocos, Dimitrios P. (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:4, Research report, 2006)
      As financial stability has gained focus in economic policymaking, the demand for analyses of financial stability and the consequences of economic policy has increased. Alternative macroeconomic models are available for ...
    • Evaluering av Oslo kommnes kriteriesystem 

      Halvorsen, Thomas; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Haraldsvik, Marianne; Dyrstad, Karin; Mandal, Roland; Borge, Lars-Erik (SINTEF Rapport;, Research report, 2015)
    • Financial Integration and Consumption Comovements in the Nordic Countries 

      Matsen, Egil; Thøgersen, Øystein (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:15, Research report, 2002)
      The cross-country correlations between annual per capita consumption growth in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) during the period 1973-1996 are much lower than predicted by the basic theory of ...
    • 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 ...
    • Growth, Development and Land-Use in a Simple Agrarian Economy with Endogeneous Population 

      Skonhoft, Anders; Solstad, Jan Tore (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2003:4, Research report, 2003)
      The paper analyses the relation between demographic transformation, agricultural transformation and land-use pressure within a simple agrarian economy where population is treated both as a cause and consequence of economic ...
    • Habit Persistence and Welfare Gains from International Asset Trade 

      Matsen, Egil (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:1, Research report, 2002)
      We introduce habit formation in a model that studies the link between international trade in financial assets, economic growth, and welfare. As with time separable preferences asset trade increases the mean growth rate, ...
    • Hysteresis in Unemployment: Evidence from Norwegian Counties 

      Johansen, Kåre (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:6, Research report, 2002)
      The paper tests hysteresis effects in unemployment using aggregate and panel data for Norway. While tests using aggregate or county—specific time series do not reject the null of unit root hysteresis, the panel tests firmly ...
    • Inntektssystemet for kommunene : Lokale skatteinntekter 

      Borge, Lars-Erik; Krehic, Lana; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Rattsø, Jørn; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen; Leyen, Kaja von der (Research report, 2022)
      Denne rapporten er skrevet på oppdrag fra Kommunal- og moderniseringsdepartementet som et underlag for Inntektssystemutvalgets vurderinger av lokal beskatning, beskatningsfrihet og utforming av skatteutjevningen ved ...
    • Interest Rate Decisions in an Asymmetric Monetary Union 

      Matsen, Egil; Røisland, Øistein (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2003:2, Research report, 2003)
      Growth models of the Dutch disease, such as those of Krugman (1987), Matsuyama (1992), Sachs and Warner (1995) and Gylfason et al. (1999), explain why resource abundance may reduce growth. However, the literature also ...
    • International Diversification, Growth, and Welfare with Non-Traded Income Risk and Incomplete Markets 

      Matsen, Egil (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:17, Research report, 2002)
      We ask how the potential benefits from cross-border asset trade are affected by the presence of non-traded income risk in incomplete markets. We show that the mean consumption growth may be lower with full integration than ...
    • International Spillovers, Productivity Growth and Openness in Thailand: An Intertemporal General Equilibrium Analysis 

      Diao, Xinshen (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:22, Research report, 2002)
      Thailand has experienced economic growth well above world averages for about 40 years. It is a challenge to understand the sources of this high growth path, and in particular why growth has not slowed down with assumed ...
    • 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 ...
    • Kostnadskontroll i statlige prosjekter med og uten ekstern kvalitetssikring 

      Berg, Helene; Bukkestein, Ingri; Nyhus, Ole Henning (Research report, 2022)
    • Learning by Exporting and Productivity-Investment Interaction: An Intertemporal General Equilibrium Analysis of the Growth Process in Thailand 

      Diao, Xinshen; Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn E. (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:24, Research report, 2002)
      While the discussion of Thailand and East Asian growth has been a controversy between capital accumulation and productivity stories, we analyze the general equilibrium interaction between productivity and investment in an ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Merkostnader til ivaretagelse av tospråklighet i forvaltningsområdet for samisk språk 

      Wold, Mads Fjeld; von der Leyen, Kaja; Tovmo, Per; Johansen, Kevin (Research report, 2024)
      Denne rapporten presenterer resultatene fra undersøkelsen vi i Senter for økonomisk forskning har gjort av kostnader og finansieringskilder knyttet til tospråklighet og ivaretagelse av samisk språk og kultur i samiske ...
    • Model Specification and Inflation Forecast Uncertainty 

      Bårdsen, Gunnar; Jansen, Eilev S.; Nymoen, Ragnar (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:13, Research report, 2002)
      Three classes of inflation models are discussed: Standard Phillips curves, New Keynesian Phillips curves and Incomplete Competition models. Their relative merits in explaining and forecasting inflation are investigated ...
    • 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 ...