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    • Modelling Wages and Prices in Australia 

      Bårdsen, Gunnar; Hurn, Stan; McHugh, Zoë (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:12, Research report, 2002)
      This paper estimates a simultaneous-equation model of wages and prices for Australia, underpinned by a competing claims framework of imperfect competition. Two separate cointegrating relationships for wages and prices are ...

    • 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 ...

    • Non-linear Unemployment Effects in Sickness Absence: Discipline or Composition Effects? 

      Dyrstad, Jan Morten; Ose, Solveig Osborg (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:25, Research report, 2002)
      By applying Smooth Transition Regressions (Teräsvirta, 1998) we test whether effects on short (STA) and long term (LTA) sickness absence depend on the level of unemployment. The main question is to what extent unemployment ...

    • Nonlinear Wage Responses to Internal and External Factors 

      Johansen, Kåre (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:9, Research report, 2002)
      The paper tests whether or not the effects on sectoral wages of internal and external factors depend upon the sector’s relative wage position. The key hypothesis is that workers in low—wage sectors are more concerned with ...

    • On Asymmetric Information across Countries and the Home-Bias Puzzel 

      Matsen, Egil (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:2, Research report, 2002)
      This paper investigates the allocation decision of an investor who owns two projects, a domestic and a foreign one. A manager governs the expected return from each project, and the investor has less information on the ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Optimal Dutch Disease 

      Matsen, Egil; Torvik, Ragnar (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2003:1, 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 ...

    • Plastkraft - gullgruve eller miljøbombe? 

      Olaussen, Jon Olaf (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:7, Research report, 2002)

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Property Rights and Natural Resource Conservation: A Bio-Economic Model with Numerical Illustrations from the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem 

      Johannesen, Anne B.; Skonhoft, Anders (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2003:10, Research report, 2003)
      This study develops a model for wildlife migrating seasonally between a conservation area and a neighbouring area. When being outside the conservation area, harvesting takes place by a group of small-scale farmers. The ...

    • 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 ...

    • Property taxation as incentive for cost control: Empirical evidence for utility services in Norway. 

      Borge, Lars-Erik; Rattsø, Jørn (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:12, Research report, 2006)
      Recent theoretical research suggests that property taxation has incentive effects that can help control cost problems in the public sector. The institutional setting in Norway allows this first empirical investigation of ...

    • 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 ...

    • Public Employment and Regional Risk Sharing: Norway 1977-90 

      Borge, Lars-Erik; Matsen, Egil (Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:8, Research report, 2002)
      We provide an empirical analysis of regional risk sharing in Norway over the period 1977-90. The approach of Asdrubali, Sørensen and Yosha (1996) is extended to take account of public employment as a possible shock absorber. ...

    • 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 ...