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A political economy theory of the soft budget constraint
(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 ... -
A Smooth-Transition Model of the Australian Unemployment Rate
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:10, Research report, 2002)Models of the aggregate unemployment rate have traditionally been estimated from structural models of the labour market or in a linear single-equation framework. However, theory as well as evidence suggest that the ... -
A theory of civil conflict and democracy in rentier states
(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 ... -
A Wage Curve for the Interwar Labour Market: Evidence from a Panel of Norwegian Manufacturing Industries
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:18, Research report, 2002)We present an econometric analysis of wage behaviour in Norway during the interwar years. Applying GMM estimation methods to a newly constructed panel of manufacturing industry data, we Þnd that the interwar years do not ... -
Absence and Overtime Work: Empirical Evidence from Norway
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2001:26, Research report, 2002)This paper presents both theoretical and empirical analyses of the relationship between overtime work and absence. Demand for absence is analysed under the assumption that workers in a given firm can be represented by one ... -
Bedre føre var.. Psykisk helse: Helsefremmende og forebyggende tiltak og anbefalinger
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Betydningen av lønnsomhet ved valg av vegtrasé i kommunedelplanprosessen
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Carl Barks: A classical economist?
(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. -
Centralized or decentralized financing of local governments? Consequences for efficiency and inequality of service provision
(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 ... -
Conservation of Wildlife: A bio-economic model of a wildlife reserve under the pressure of habitat destruction and harvesting outside the reserve
(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 ... -
Constitutions and the resource curse
(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 ... -
Cursed by resources or institutions?
(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
(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 ... -
Designing Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs): Illegal hunting, wildlife conservation and the welfare of the local people
(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 ... -
Designing Social Security – A Portfolio Choice Approach
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:11, Research report, 2002)Public social security systems may provide diversification of risks to individuals’ life-time income. Capturing that a pay-as-you-go program (paygo) may be considered as a “quasiasset”, we study the optimal size of the ... -
Do local authorities set local fiscal variables to influence population flows?
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:16, Research report, 2006)The paper presents an empirical test of local fiscal competition in Norway based on the observation that interregional migration during the business cycle creates very different incentives for rural and urban municipalities ... -
Econometric Inflation Targeting
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:5, Research report, 2002)Inflation targeting requires inflation forecasts, yet most models in the literature are either theoretical or calibrated. The motivation for this paper is therefore threefold: We seek to test and implement an econometric ... -
Economic modeling approaches for wildlife and species conservation
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:6, Research report, 2006)This paper presents modeling approaches for wildlife and species conservation with a special emphasis on large mammals in a developing country setting. In such countries there are frequently conflicts over land use and ... -
Efficiency potential and efficiency variation in Norwegian lower secondary schools
(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 ... -
Election cycles, party ideology and incumbent popularity: Theory and evidence for OECD economies.
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2006:15, Research report, 2006)The paper presents a rational political business cycle model where voters are imperfectly informed about both incumbent competence and incumbent preferences. The model predicts that election cycles on real variables are ...