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Tidligere memoranda

2022

Bård Harstad

A theory of pledge-and-review bargaining

Memo 05/24


Michael Graber, Magne Mogstad, Gaute Torsvik and Ola Vestad

Behavioural responses to income taxation in Norway

Memo 04/24


Eskil Heinesen, Christian Hvid, Lars Kirkebøen, Edwin Leuven and Magne Mogstad

Instrumental variables with unordered treatments: Theory and evidence from returns to fields of study

Memo 03/2022


Mikkel Gandil and Edwin Leuven

College admission as a screening and sorting device

Memo 02/2022


Askill H. Halse, Karen E. Hauge, Elisabeth T. Isaksen, Bjørn G. Johansen and Oddbjørn Raaum

Local Incentives and Electric Vehicle Adoption

Memo 01/2022

2021

Lars Kirkebøen

School value-added and long-term student outcomes

Memo 04/2021


Mikkel Høst Gandil

Substitution Effects in College Admissions

Memo 03/2021


Karine Nyborg

A perfectly competitive economy is an economy without welfare relevant endogenous learning

Memo 02/2021


Elisabeth T. Isaksen & Bjørn G. Johansen

Congestion pricing, air pollution, and individual-level behavioral responses

Memo 01/2021

 

2020

Manudeep Bhuller, Tarjei Havnes, Jeremy McCauley & Magne Mogstad

V1: November 2020: How the Internet Changed the Market for Print Media

V2: October 2021: How the Internet Changed the Market for Print Media

Memo 02/2020


Anders Kjelsrud and Kristin Vikan Sjurgard

Public work and private violence

Memo 01/2020

 

2019

Manudeep Bhuller, Andreas R. Kostøl & Trond C. Vigtel

How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching

Memo 10/2019


Finn R. Førsund

Environmental Performance Measurement: The Rise and Fall of Shephard-inspired Measures

Memo 09/2019


Inés Hardoy and Tao Zhang

The long and winding road - Labour market integration of refugees in Norway

Memo 08/2019


Karine Nyborg 

No Man is an Island - Social coordination and the Environment

Memo 07/2019


Kristine Wika Haraldsen, Ragnar Nymoen, Victoria Sparrman

Labour market institutions, shocks and the employment rate

Memo 06/2019


Ragnhild C. Schreiner

Unemployed or Disabled? Disability Screening and Labor Market Outcomes of Youths

Memo 05/2019


Vegard Sjurseike Wiborg, Kjell Arne Brekke, Karine Nyborg

Collaboration, Alphabetical Order and Gender Discrimination. Evidence from the Lab

Memo 04/2019


Steinar Holden

A new model for wage formation in Iceland

Memo 03/2019


Karine Nyborg

Humans in the perfectly competitive market

Memo 02/2019


Bjorn Dapi, Ragnar Nymoen, Victoria Sparrman

Robustness of the Norwegian wage formation system and free EU labour movement. Evidence from wage data for natives

Memo 01/2019

 

2018

Olav Bjerkholt

Ragnar Frisch (1895-1973)

Memo 08/2018


Geir B. Asheim, Stéphane Zuber

Rank-discounting as a resolution to a dilemma in population ethics

Memo 07/2018


Finn R. Førsund, Almas Heshmati, Ke Wang

Dynamic Industry Productivity Measures: The case of thermal electricity generation by South Korean plants 2001-2008 and in Chinese regions 2000-2004*

Memo 06/2018


Ragnar Nymoen, Kari Pedersen, Jon Ivar Sjåberg

Estimation of effects of recent macroprudential policies in a sample of advanced open economies

Memo 05/2018


Jo Thori Lind, Karine Nyborg, Anna Pauls

Save the planet or close your eyes? Testing strategic ignorance in a charity context

Memo 04/2018


Diderik Lund

Increasing resource rent taxation when the corporate income tax is reduced?

Memo 03/2018


Derek J. Clark and Tore Nilssen

Beating the Matthew Effect: Head Starts and Catching Up in a Dynamic All-Pay Auction*

Memo 02/2018


Anders Akerman, Edwin Leuven & Magne Mogstad

V1: 02/2018: Information Frictions, Internet and the Relationship between Distance and Trade*

V2:11/2018: Information Frictions, Internet and the Relationship between Distance and Trade*

V3: 09/2019: Information Frictions, Internet and the Relationship between Distance and Trade*

V4: 09/2020: Information Frictions, Internet and the Relationship between Distance and Trade*

Memo 01/2018

2017

Erik Biørn

Identification, Instruments, Omitted Variables, and Rudimentary Models: Fallacies in the ‘Experimental Approach’ to Econometrics

Memo 13/2017


Tapas Kundu and Tore Nilssen

Delegation of Regulation*

Memo 12/2017


Pedro Brinca, Miguel H. Ferreira, Francesco Franco, Hans A. Holter & Laurence Malafry

Fiscal Consolidation Programs and Income Inequality*

Memo 11/2017


Geir B. Asheim & Andrés Perea

V1: 10/2017: Algorithms for cautious reasoning in games*

V2: 11/2018: Algorithms for cautious reasoning in games*

Memo 10/2017

2016

Erik Biørn

Panel data estimators and aggregation

Memo 19/2016


Olav Bjerkholt

Wassily Leontief and the discovery of the input-output approach

Memo 18/2016


Øystein Kravdal

New evidence about effects of reproductive variables on child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa

Memo 17/2016


Moti Michaeli and Daniel Spiro

The dynamics of revolutions

Memo 16/2016


Geir B. Asheim, Mark Voorneveld, and Jörgen W. Weibull

V2: 15/11/16: Epistemically robust strategy subsets

V1: 03/11/16: Epistemically robust strategy subsets

Memo 15/2016


Torbjørn Hanson

Estimating output mix effectiveness: A scenario approach

Memo 14/2016


Halvor Mehlum and Kalle Moene

Unequal power and the dynamics of rivalry

Memo 13/2016


Halvor Mehlum

Another model of sales. Price discrimination in a differentiated duopoly market

Memo 12/2016


Vladimir W. Krivonozhko, Finn R. Førsund, and Andrey V. Lychev

Smoothing the frontier in the DEA models

Memo 11/2016


Finn R. Førsund Pollution

Modelling and Multiple-Output Production*

Memo 10/2016


Frikk Nesje and Geir B. Asheim

V2: 05/2017: Intergenerational altruism: A solution to the climate problem?

V1: 09/2016: Intergenerational altruism: A solution to the climate problem?

Memo 09/2016


Michael Hoel

Optimal control theory with applications to resource and environmental economics

Memo 08/2016


Geir B. Asheim

Sustainable growth

Memo 07/2016


Arnaldur Sölvi Kristjánsson

V2: 08/2017: Optimal Taxation with Endogenous Return to Capital

V1: 05/2016: Optimal Taxation with Endogenous Return to Capital

Memo 06/2016


Øystein Kravdal

Expected and unexpected consequences of childbearing – a methodologically and politically important distinction that is overlooked

Memo 05/2016


Dag Fjeld Edvardsen, Finn R. Førsund, and Sverre A. C. Kittelsen

V2: 09/2016: Productivity Development of Norwegian Institutions of Higher Education 2004 – 2013

V1: 04/2016: Productivity Development of Norwegian Institutions of Higher Education 2004 – 2013

Memo 04/2016


Finn R. Førsund

V2: 09/2016: Multi-equation modelling of Desirable and Undesirable Outputs Satisfying the Material Balance

V1: 01/2016: Multi-equation modelling of Desirable and Undesirable Outputs Satisfying the Material Balance

Memo 03/2016


Ingrid Hjort 

Potential Climate Risks in Financial Markets: Report from a workshop, January 20, 2016

Memo 02/2016


Ingrid Hjort

Potential Climate Risks in Financial Markets: A Literature Overview

Memo 01/2016

2015

Geir B. Asheim and Frikk Nesje

Destructive intergenerational altruism

Memo 22/2015


Rolf Golombek, Alfonso A. Irarrazabal, Lin Ma

OPEC's market power: An Empirical Dominant Firm Model for the Oil Market

Memo 21/2015


Moritz A. Drupp, Mark C. Freeman, Ben Groom, and Frikk Nesje

V2: 06/2017: Discounting Disentangled

V1: 11/2015: Discounting Disentangled

Memo 20/2015


Simen Markussen and Marte Strøm

The Effects of Motherhood

Memo 19/2015


Marit Linnea Gjelsvik, Ragnar Nymoen and Victoria Sparrman

Have Inflation Targeting and EU Labour Immigration Changed the System of Wage Formation in Norway?

Memo 18/2015


Geir B. Asheim and Ivar Ekeland

Resource Conservation across Generations in a Ramsey-Chichilnisky Model

Memo 17/2015


Nina Drange, Tarjei Havnes and Astrid M. J. Sandsør

Kindergarten for All: Long-run Effects of a Universal Intention

Memo 16/2015


Paolo G. Piacquadio

The Ethics of Intergenerational Risk

Memo 15/2015


Finn R. Førsund

Productivity Interpretations of the Farrell Efficiency Measures and the Malmquist Index and its Decomposition

Memo 14/2015


Christian N. Brinch, Erik Hernæs and Zhiyang Jia

Salience and Social Security Benefits

Memo 13/2015


Florian K. Diekert

Threatening Thresholds? The Effect of Disastrous Regime Shifts on the Cooperative and Non-cooperative Use of Environmental Goods and Services

Memo 12/2015


Andre K. Anundsen and Ragnar Nymoen

Did US Consumers 'Save for a Rainy Day' before the Great Recession?

Memo 11/2015


Finn Førsund

Economic Perspectives on DEA

Memo 10/2015


Andreas Kotsadam, Eivind Hammersmark Olsen, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Tore Wig

Mining and Local Corruption in Africa

Memo 9/2015


Eric Nævdal

Catastrophes and Expected Marginal Utility - How The Value Of The Last Fish In A Lake Is Infinity And Why We Shouldn't Care (Much)

Memo 8/2015


Niklas Jakobsson and Andreas Kotsadam

The Economics of Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation

Memo 7/2015


Geir B. Asheim and Stéphane Zuber

Evaluating Intergenerational Risks: Probabillity Adjusted Rank-Discounted Utilitarianism Memo 6/2015


Fridrik Mar Baldursson and Nils-Henrik von der Fehr

Natural Resources and Sovereign Expropriation

Memo 5/2015


Erik Biørn and Xuehui Han

Persistence, Signal-Noise Pattern and Heterogeneity in Panel Data: With an Application to the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on GDP

Memo 4/2015


Alice Ciccone

Environmental Effects of a Vehicle Tax Reform: Empirical Evidence from Norway

Memo 3/2015


Katinka Holtsmark and Kristoffer Midttømme

The Dynamics of Linking Permit Markets

Memo 2/2015


Francesco Lancia and Alessia Russo

Public Education and Pensions in Democracy: A Political Economy Theory

Memo 1/2015

 

2014

Lars Kirkebøen, Edwin Leuven and Magne Mogstad.

Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection

Memo 29/2014


Erik Biørn

Serially Correlated Measurement Errors in Time Series Regression: The Potential of Instrumental Variable Estimators

Memo 28/2014


Erik Biørn

The Price-Quantity Decomposition of Capital Values Revisited: Framework and Examples

Memo 27/2014


Olav Bjerkholt

Econometric Society 1930: How It Got Founded

Memo 26/2014


Nils Chr. Framstad

The Effect of Small Intervention Costs on the Optimal Extraction of Dividends and Renewable Resources in a Jump-Diffusion Model

Memo 25/2014


Leif Andreassen, Maria Laura Di Tommaso and Steinar Strøm

Wages Anatomy: Labor Supply of Nurses and a Comparison with Physicians

Memo 24/2014


Derek J. Clark, Tore Nilssen and Jan Yngve Sand

V2: 06/2015: Keep on Fighting: Dynamic Win Effects in an All-Pay Auction

V1: 10/2014: Keep on Fighting: Dynamic Win Effects in an All-Pay Auction

Memo 23/2014


John K. Dagsvik and Zhiyang Jia

Labor Supply as a Choice among Latent Jobs: Unobserved Heterogeneity and Identification

Memo 22/2014


Simen Gaure

Practical Correlation Bias Correction in Two-way Fixed Effects Linear Regression

Memo 21/2014


Rolf Aaberge, Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad

A Theory for Ranking Distribution Functions

Memo 20/2014


Alice Ciccone

Is it all about CO2 emissions? The environmental effects of a tax reform for new vehicles in Norway

Memo 19/2014


Mikolaj Czajkowski, Nick Hanley and Karine Nyborg

Social norms, Morals and Self-interest as Determinants of Pro-environment Behaviours

Memo 18/2014


Karine Nyborg

Reciprocal Climate Negotiators: Balancing Anger against Even More Anger

Memo 17/2014


Karen Evelyn Hauge and Ole Røgeberg

Contributing to Public Goods as Individuals versus Group Representatives: Evidence of Gender Differences

Memo 16/2014


Moti Michaeli and Daniel Spiro

Skewed Norms under Peer Pressure: Formation and Collapse

Memo 15/2014


Daniel Spiro

Resource Prices and Planning Horizons

Memo 14/2014


Johan Gars and Daniel Spiro

Uninsurance through Trade

Memo 13/2014


Moti Michaeli and Daniel Spiro

The Distribution of Individual Conformity under Social Pressure across Societies

Memo 12/2014


Ingvild Almås, Åshild Auglænd Johnsen and Andreas Kotsadam

Poverty in China Seen from Outer Space

Memo 11/2014


Nico Keilman and Coen van Duin

Stochastic Household Forecasts by Coherent Random Shares Predictions

Memo 10/2014


Mads Greaker, Michael Hoel and Knut Einar Rosendahl

Does a Renewable Fuel Standard for Biofuels Reduce Climate Costs?

Memo 9/2014


Karine Nyborg

Project Evaluation with Democratic Decision-making: What Does Cost-benefit Analysis Really Measure?

Memo 8/2014


Florian Diekert, Kristen Lund and Tore Schweder

From Open-Access to Individual Quotas: Disentangling the Effects of Policy Reform and Environmental Changes in the Norwegian Coastal Cod Fishery

Memo 7/2014


Edwin Leuven, Erik Plug and Marte Rønning

Education and Cancer Risk

Memo 6/2014


Edwin Leuven, Erik Plug and Marte Rønning

The Relative Contribution of Genetic and Environmental Factors to Cancer Risk and Cancer Mortality in Norway

Memo 5/2014


Tone Ognedal

Morale in the Market

Memo 4/2014


Paolo Giovanni Piacquadio

Intergenerational Egalitarianism

Memo 3/2014


Martin Flatø and Andreas Kotsadam

Droughts and Gender Bias in Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Memo 2/2014


Yngve Willassen

Optimal Migration and Consumption Policies over an Individual's Random Lifetime

Memo 1/2014

2013

Olav Bjerkholt

V2: 02/2014: Promoting Econometrics through econometrica 1933-39

V1: 12/2015: Promoting Econometrics through econometrica 1933-39

Memo 28/2013


Trygve Haavelmo

Variations on a Theme by Gossen

Memo 27/2013


Olav Bjerkholt

Trygve Haavelmo at the Cowles Commission

Memo 26/2013


Halvor Mehlum

Economics at the Faculty of Law in Oslo - The First Hundred Years

Memo 25/2013


Eric Nævdal and Jon Vislie

Resource Depletion and Capital Accumulation under Catastrophic Risk: Policy Actions against Stochastic Thresholds and Stock Pollution

Memo 24/2013


Steinar Holden and Nina Larsson Midthjell

Successful Fiscal Adjustments - Does choice of fiscal instrument matter?

Memo 23/2013


Ragnar Nymoen and Victoria Sparrman

Equilibrium Unemployment Dynamics in a Panel of OECD Countries

Memo 22/2013


Nils Chr. Framstad

Ross-type Dynamic Portfolio Separation (almost) without Ito Stochastic Calculus

Memo 21/2013


John K. Dagsvik, Steinar Strøm and Marilena Locatelli

Compensated Discrete Choice with Particular Reference to Labor Supply

Memo 20/2013


Erik Biørn

Age-Cohort-Time Effects in Sickness Absence: Exploring a Large Data Set by Polynomial Regression

Memo 19/2013


Halvor Mehlum and Gry Østenstad

The Political Economy of Migration Policies in Oil-rich Gulf Countries

Memo 18/2013


Halvor Mehlum, Ragnar Torvik and Simone Valente

China's Savings Multiplier

Memo 17/2013


Finn R. Førsund

Measuring Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Public Sector

Memo 16/2013


Mads Greaker and Kristoffer Midttømme

Optimal Environmental Policy with Network Effects: Is Lock-in in Dirty Technologies Possible?

Memo 15/2013


Diderik Lund and Ragnar Nymoen

Comparative statics for real options on oil: What stylized facts to use?

Memo 14/2013


Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr

Transparency in Electricity Markets

Memo 13/2013


Nils Chr. Framstad

When can environmental profile and emissions reductions be optimized independently of the pollutant level?

Memo 12/2013


Nils Chr. Framstad and Jon Strand

Energy Intensive Infrastructure Investments with Retrofits in Continuous Time: Effects of Uncertainty on Energy Use and Carbon Emissions

Memo 11/2013


Øystein Kravdal

Reflections on the Search for Fertility Effects on Happiness

Memo 10/2013


Erik Biørn and Hild-Marte Bjørnsen

What Motivates Farm Couples to Seek Off-farm Labour? A Logit Analysis of Job Transitions

Memo 9/2013


Erik Biørn

Identifying Age-Cohort-Time Effects, Their Curvature and Interactions from Polynomials: Examples Related to Sickness Absence

Memo 8/2013


Alessandro Corsi and Steinar Strøm

The Price Premium for Organic Wines: Estimating a Hedonic Farm-gate Price Equation

Memo 7/2013


Ingvild Almås and Åshild Auglænd Johnsen

The Cost of Living in China: Implications for Inequality and Poverty

Memo 6/2013


André Kallåk Anundsen

Economic Regime Shifts and the US Subprime Bubble

Memo 5/2013


André Kallåk Anundsen and Christian Heebøll

Supply Restrictions, Subprime Lending and Regional US Housing Prices

Memo 4/2013


Michael Hoel

Supply Side Climate Policy and the Green Paradox

Memo 3/2013


Michael Hoel and Aart de Zeeuw

Technology Agreements with Heterogeneous Countries

Memo 2/2013


Steinar Holden, Gisle James Natvik and Adrien Vigier

An Equilibrium Model of Credit Rating Agencies

Memo 1/2013

2012

Leif Andreassen, Maria Laura Di Tomasso, and Steinar Strøm

Do Medical Doctors Respond to Economic Incentives?

Memo 32/2012


Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad

Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field?

Memo 31/2012


Vladimir E. Krivonozhko, Finn R. Førsund, and Andrey V. Lychev

Identifying Suspicious Efficient Units in DEA Models

Memo 30/2012


Vladimir E. Krivonozhko, Finn R. Førsund, and Andrey V. Lychev

Measurement of Returns to Scale Using Non-Radial DEA Models

Memo 29/2012


Derek J. Clark, Tore Nilssen, and Jan Yngve Sand

V2: 08/2013: Motivating over Time: Dynamic Win Effects in Sequential Contests

V1: 09/2012: Motivating over Time: Dynamic Win Effects in Sequential Contests

Memo 28/2012


Erik Biørn and Xuehui Han

Panel Data Dynamics and Measurement Errors: GMM Bias, IV Validity and Model Fit – A Monte Carlo Study

Memo 27/2012


Michael Hoel, Bjart Holtsmark, and Katinka Holtsmark

V2: 04/2014: Faustmann and the Climate

V1: 09/2012: Faustmann and the Climate

Memo 26/2012


Steinar Holden

Implications of Insights from Behavioral Economics for Macroeconomic Models

Memo 25/2012


Eric Nævdal and Jon Vislie

Resource Depletion and Capital Accumulation under Catastrophic Risk: The Role of Stochastic Thresholds and Stock Pollution

Memo 24/2012


Geir B. Asheim and Stephane Zuber

Escaping the Repugnant Conclusion: Rank-discounted Utilitarianism with Variable Population

Memo 23/2012


Erik Biørn

Estimating SUR Systems with Random Coefficients: The Unbalanced Panel Data Case

Memo 22/2012


Olav Bjerkholt

Ragnar Frisch’s Axiomatic Approach to Econometrics

Memo 21/2012


Ragnar Nymoen and Victoria Sparrman

Panel Data Evidence on the Role of Institutions and Shocks for Unemployment Dynamics and Equilibrium

Memo 20/2012


Erik Hernaes, Simen Markussen, John Piggott, and Ola Vestad

Does Retirement Age Impact Mortality?

Memo 19/2012


Olav Bjerkholt

Økonomi og økonomer i UiOs historie: Fra Knut Wicksells dissens i 1910 til framstøtet mot Thorstein Veblen I 1920

Memo 18/2012


John K. Dagsvik

Behavioral Multistate Duration Models: What should they look like?

Memo 17/2012


Kjell Arne Brekke, James Konow, and Karine Nyborg

Cooperation Is Relative: Income and Framing Effects with Public Goods

Memo 16/2012


Finn R. Førsund

Phasing in Large-scale Expansion of Wind-Power in the Nordic-Countries

Memo 15/2012


Berhe Mekonnen Beyene

The Link between International Remittances and Private Interhousehold Transfers

Memo 14/2012


Berhe Mekonnen Beyene

The Effects of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Ethiopia

Memo 13/2012


Olav Bjerkholt

Økonomi og økonomer i UiOs historie: Professorkonkurransen 1876-77

Memo 12/2012


Erik Biørn

An Econometric Market Model of Capital and Investment Inspired by Haavelmo

Memo 11/2012


Jens Fredrik Baumgarten Skogstrøm

V2: 08/2012: Entrepreneurial School Dropouts: A Model on Signalling, Education and Entrepreneurship

V1: 03/2012: Entrepreneurial School Dropouts: A Model on Signalling, Education and Entrepreneurship

Memo 10/2012


Finn R. Førsund

V2: 08/2012: Measuring Efficiency in the Public Sector

V1: 03/2012: Measuring Efficiency in the Public Sector

Memo 9/2012


Tapan Mitra, Geir B. Asheim, Wolfgang Buchholz, and Cees Withagen

Characterizing the Sustainability Problem in an Exhaustible Resource Model

Memo 8/2012


Leif Andreassen, Maria Laura Di Tomasso, and Steinar Strøm

Do Medical Doctors Respond to Economic Incentives?

CESIFO Working Paper no. 3802


Torbjørn Hanson

Efficiency and Productivity in the Operational Units of the Armed Forces

Memo 7/2012


Sheetal K. Chand 

The Relevance of Haavelmo’s Macroeconomic Theorizing for Contemporary Policy Making

Memo 6/2012


Tone Ognedal

In the Shadow of the Labour Market

Memo 5/2012


Michael Hoel

Second-best Climate Policy

Memo 4/2012


Tom Kornstad, Ragnar Nymoen, and Terje Skjerpen

Macroeconomic Shocks and the Probability of Being Employed

Memo 3/2012


Erik Biørn

The Measurement Error Problem in Dynamic Panel Data Analysis: Modeling and GMM Estimation

Memo 2/2012


Erik Hernæs and Zhiyang Jia

Earning Distribution and Labour Supply after a Retirement Earnings Test Reform

Memo 1/2012

2011

Jørgen Heibø Modalsli

Polarization, Risk and Welfare in General Equilibrium

Memo 27/2011


Jo Thori Lind and Dominic Rhoner

Knowledge is Power: A Theory of Information, Income, and Welfare Spending

Memo 26/2011


Kjell Arne Brekke and Tore Nilssen

The Market for Fake Observations

Memo 25/2011


Berhe Mekonnen Beyene

Determinants of Internal and International Migration in Ethiopia

Memo 24/2011


Ragnar Nymoen, Anders Rygh Swensen, and Eivind Tveter

Interpreting the evidence for New Keynesian models of inflation dynamics

Memo 23/2011


Finn R. Førsund and Jon Vislie

From Macro Growth to Disaggregated Production Studies

Memo 22/2011


Jørgen Heibø Modalsli

Solow meets Marx: Economic growth and the emergence of social class

Memo 21/2011


Nils Chr. Framstad

On free lunches in random walk markets with short-sale constraints and small transaction costs, and weak convergence to Gaussian continuous-time processes

Memo 20/2011


Atle Seierstad

Pareto improvements of Nash equilibria in differential games

Memo 19/2011


Erik Biørn and Knut R. Wangen

Models of Truncation, Sample Selection, and Limited Dependent Variables: Suggestions for a Common Language

Memo 18/2011


Steinar Holden and Victoria Sparrman

Do Government Purchases Affect Unemployment?

Memo 17/2011


Ola Lotherington Vestad

Who pays for occupational pensions?

Memo 16/2011


Mads Greaker and Michael Hoel

Incentives for environmental R&D

Memo 15/2011


Halvor Mehlum, Karl Moene, and Ragnar Torvik

Mineral Rents and Social Development in Norway

Memo 14/2011


André K. Anundsen and Eilev S. Jansen

Self-reinforcing effects between housing prices and credit: Evidence from Norway

Memo 13/2011


Nils Chr. Framstad

V1 February 2011: Portfolio Separation with α-symmetric and Pseudo-isotropic Distributions

V2 February 2013: Portfolio Separation with α-symmetric and Pseudo-isotropic Distributions

Memo 12/2011


Jørgen Modalsli

Inequality and growth in the very long run: inferring inequality from data on social groups

Memo 11/2011


Eilev S. Jansen and Tord S. H. Krogh

Credit conditions indices: Controlling for regime shifts in the Norwegian credit market

Memo 10/2011


Karin Jacobsen, Kari H. Eika, Leif Helland, Jo Thori Lind, and Karine Nyborg

Are nurses more altruistic than real estate brokers?

Memo 09/2011


Michael Hoel

The supply side of CO2 with country heterogeneity

Memo 08/2011


Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen, Erik Biørn, and Randi Selmer

Quitting behaviour of cigarette smokers. Are there direct effects of a screening program?

Memo 07/2011


Kari H. Eika

Near and Generous? Gift Propensity and Chosen Emotional Distance

Memo 06/2011


Finn R. Førsund

Weight Restrictions in DEA: Misplaced Emphasis?

Memo 05/2011


Vladimir Krivonozhko, Finn R. Førsund, and Andrey V. Lychev

Terminal units in DEA: Definition and Determination

Memo 04/2011


André K. Anundsen, Tord S. H. Krogh, Ragnar Nymoen, and Jon Vislie

Overdeterminacy and endogenous cycles:Trygve Haavelmo’s business cycle model and its implications for monetary policy

Memo 03/2011


Nils Chr. Framstad

Portfolio Separation Properties of the Skew-Elliptical Distributions

Memo 02/2011


Karine Nyborg and Tao Zhang

Is corporate social responsibility associated with lower wages?

Memo 01/2011

2010

Rebecca Graziani and Nico Keilman

The sensitivity of the Scaled Model of Error with respect to the choice of the correlation parameters: A Simulation Study

Memo 22/2010


Jennifer L. Castle, Jurgen A. Doornik, David F. Hendry and Ragnar Nymoen

Testing the Invariance of Expectations Models of Inflation

Memo 21/2010


Erik Biørn

Identifying Trend and Age Effects in Sickness Absence from Individual Data: Some Econometric Problems

Memo 20/2010


Michael Hoel and Svenn Jensen

Cutting Costs of Catching Carbon - Intertemporal effects under imperfect climate policy

Memo 19/2010


Hans Jarle Kind, Tore Nilssen, and Lars Sørgard

Price Coordination in Two-Sided Markets: Competition in the TV Industry

Memo 18/2010


Vladimir Krivonozhko, Finn R. Førsund, and Andrey V. Lychev

A Note on Imposing Strong Complementary Slackness Conditions in DEA

Memo 17/2010


Halvor Mehlum and Karl Moene

Aggressive elites and vulnerable entrepreneurs - trust and cooperation in the shadow of conflict

Memo 16/2010


Nils-Henrik M von der Fehr

Leader, Or Just Dominant? The Dominant-Firm Model Revisited

Memo 15/2010


Simen Gaure

OLS with Multiple High Dimensional Category Dummies

Memo 14/2010


Michael Hoel

Is there a green paradox?

Memo 13/2010


Michael Hoel

Environmental R&D

Memo 12/2010


Øystein Børsum

Employee Stock Options

Memo 11/2010


Øystein Børsum

Contagious Mortgage Default

Memo 10/2010


Derek J. Clark and Tore Nilssen

Learning by Doing in Contests

Memo 09/2010


Jo Thori Lind

The Number of Organizations in Heterogeneous Societies

Memo 08/2010


Olav Bjerkholt

The “Meteorological” and the “Engineering” Type of Econometric Inference: a 1943 Exchange between Trygve Haavelmo and Jakob Marschak

Memo 07/2010


Dag Kolsrud and Ragnar Nymoen

Macroeconomic Stability or Cycles? The Role of the Wage-price Spiral

Memo 06/2010


Olav Bjerkholt and Duo Qin

Teaching Economics as a Science: the 1930 Yale Lectures of Ragnar Frisch

Memo 05/2010


Michael Hoel

Climate Change and Carbon Tax Expectations

Memo 04/2010


Geir B. Asheim

Comparing the Welfare of Growing Economies

Memo 03/2010


Rolf Golombek, Mads Greaker and Michael Hoel

Climate Policy without Commitment

Memo 02/2010


Geir B. Asheim, Max Voorneveld and Jörgen W. Weibull

Epistemically Stable Strategy Sets

Memo 01/2010

2009

Diderik Lund

Rent Taxation for Nonrenewable Resources

Memo 01/2009


Nils-Henik M. von der Fehr and Petter Vegard Hansen

Electricity Retailing in Norway

Memo 02/2009


Steinar Holden and Fredrik Wulfsberg

Wage Rigidity, Institutions, and Inflation

Memo 03/2009


Jo Thori Lind and Karl O. Moene

Miserly Developments

Memo 04/2009


Jo Thori Lind, Karl Ove Moene and Fredrik Willumsen

Opium for the Masses? Conflict-induced Narcotics Production in Afghanistan

Memo 05/2009


Alessandro Corsi and Steinar Strøm

The Premium for Organic Wines: Estimating a Hedonic Price Equation from the Producer Side

Memo 06/2009


Benedicte Carlsen and Karine Nyborg

The Gate is Open: Primary Care Physicians as Social Security Gatekeepers

Memo 07/2009


Kjell Arne Brekke, Karen Evelyn Hauge, Jo Thori Lind and Karine Nyborg

Playing with the Good Guys: A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation

Memo 08/2009


Ugo Colombino, Erik Hernæs, Marilena Locatelli and Steinar Strøm

Towards an Actuarially Fair Pension System in Norway

Memo 09/2009


Dag Morten Dalen, Enrico Sorisio and Steinar Strøm

Choosing among Competing Blockbusters: Does the Identity of the Third-party Payer Matter for Prescribing Doctors?

Memo 10/2009


Fridrik M. Baldursson and Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr

Price Volatility and Risk Exposure: on the Interaction of Quota and Product Markets

Memo 11/2009


Diderik Lund

Marginal versus Average Beta of Equity under Corporate Taxation

Memo 12/2009


Johan Eyckmans and Snorre Kverndokk

Moral Concerns on Tradable Pollution Permits in International Environmental Agreements

Memo 13/2009


Finn R. Forsund, Dag Fjeld Edvardsen, Sverre A. C. Kittelsen and Frode Lindseth

Productivity of Tax Offices in Norway

Memo 14/2009


Vladimir Krivonozhko and Finn R. Førsund

Returns-to-scale Properties in DEA Models: The Fundamental Role of Interior Points

Memo 15/2009


Jon H. Fiva and Gisle James Natvik

Do Re-election Probabilities Influence Public Investment?

Memo 16/2009


Finn R. Førsund

Energy in a Bathtub: Electricity Trade between Countries with Different Generation Technologies

Memo 17/2009


Steinar Holden

How Prevalent is Post-Decision Dissonance? Some Doubts and New Evidence

Memo 18/2009


Simen Markussen

Closing the Gates? Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Physicians' Sickness Certification

Memo 19/2009


Simen Markussen

The Effects of Sick-Leaves on Earnings

Memo 20/2009


Geir B. Asheim

Strategic Use of Environmental Information

Memo 21/2009


Steinar Holden and Åsa Rosén

Discrimination and Employment Protection

Memo 22/2009


Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad

No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes

Memo 23/2009


Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad

Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment

Memo 24/2009


Erik Hernæs and Zhiyang Jia

Labour Supply Response of a Retirement Earnings Test Reform

Memo 25/2009


2008

Finn F. Førsund

Good Modelling of Bad Outputs: Pollution and Multiple-Output Production

Memo 30/2008


Michael Hoel

Bush Meets Hotelling: Effects of Improved Renewable Energy Techology on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Memo 29/2008


Eric Nævdal and Jon Vislie

Climate Change, Catastrophic Risk and the Relative Unimportance of Discounting

Memo 28/2008


Finn R. Førsund and Lennart Hjalmarsson

Dynamic Analysis of Structural Change and Productivity Measurement

Memo 27/2008


Geir B. Asheim, Leif Helland, Jon Hovi and Bjorn Hoyland

Self-serving Dictators

Memo 26/2008


Lars Westlie

The Long-term Impacts of Vocational Rehabilitation

Memo 25/2008


Lars Westlie

Norwegian Vocational Rehabilitation Programs: Improving Employability and Preventing Disability?

Memo 24/2008


Geir B. Asheim and Bjart Holtsmark

Pareto-Efficient Climate Agreements Can Always Be Renegotiation-Proof

Memo 23/2008


Simen Gaure, Knut Røed and Lars Westlie

The Impact of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Job Quality

Memo 22/2008


Snorre Kverndokk and Adam Rose

Equity and Justice in Global Warming Policy

Memo 21/2008


Halvor Mehlum

Samfunnsøkonomen Schweigaard

Memo 20/2008


Dag S. Holen

It Ain't Necessarily So

Memo 19/2008


Dag S. Holen

Pension Incentives, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Pension Systems

Memo 18/2008


Dag S. Holen

Disability Pension Motivated Income Adjustment

Memo 17/2008


Florian K. Diekert, Dag Ø. Hjermann, Eric Nævdal and Nils Chr. Stenseth

Optimal Age- and Gear-specific Harvesting Policies for North-East Arctic Cod

Memo 16/2008


Karine Nyborg

I don't Want to Hear About it: Rational Ignorance among Duty-Oriented Consumers

Memo 15/2008


Fedor Iskhakov

Pension Reform in Norway: evidence from a structural dynamic model

Memo 14/2008


Eileen Fumagalli and Tore Nilssen

Waiting To Merge

Memo 13/2008


Pedro P. Barros, Steffen Hoernig and Tore Nilssen

Keeping both eyes wide open: The life of a competitive authority among sectoral regulators

Memo 12/2008


Kari Furu, Dag Morten Dalen, Marilena Locatelli and Steinar Strøm

Generic substitution

Memo 11/2008


Reyer Gerlagh, Snorre Kverndokk and Knut Einar Rosendahl

Linking Environmental and Innovation Policy

Memo 10/2008


Steinar Strøm and Jon Vislie

A Discrete Choice-Model Approach to Optimal Congestion Charge

Memo 09/2008


M. L. Di Tommaso and Steinar Strøm and Erik Magnus Sæther

Nurses wanted: Is the Job Too Harsh or is the Wage Too Low?

Memo 08/2008


Halvor Mehlum and Karl Moene

Existence of optimal nonanticipating controls in piecewise deterministic control problems

Memo 07/2008


Halvor Mehlum and Karl Moene

King of the Hill: Positional Dynamics in Contests

Memo 06/2008


Zheng Song, Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti

V1 November 2007: Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children: A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt

V2 July 2012: Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children: A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt

Memo 05/2008


Michael Hoel

Environmental taxes in an economy with distorting taxes and a heterogeneous population

Memo 04/2008


Fedor Iskhakov

Dynamic programming model of health and retirement

Memo 03/2008


Atle Seierstad and Sigve D. Stabrun

Discontinuous control systems

Memo 02/2008


Kjell Arne Brekke, Rolf Golombek and Sverre A. C. Kittelsen

Is electricity more important than natural gas? Partial liberalization of the Western European energy markets

Memo 01/2008

2007

Geir B. Asheim and Taoyuan Wei

Sectoral income

Memo 23/2007


Geir B. Asheim and Seung Han Yoo

Coordinating under incomplete information

Memo 22/2007


Jo Thori Lind and Halvor Mehlum

With or Without U? The appropriate test for a U shaped relationship

Memo 21/2007


Ching-to Albert Ma

A Journey for Your Beautiful Mind: Economics Graduate Study and Research

Memo 20/2007


Simen Markussen

Trade-offs between health and absenteeism in welfare states: striking the balance

Memo 19/2007


Torbjørn Hægeland, Oddbjørn Raaum and Kjell Gunnar Salvanes

Pennies from heaven - Using exogenous tax variation to identify effects of school resources on pupil achievement

Memo 18/2007


O. Raaum, B. Bratsberg, K. Røed, E. Österbacka, T. Eriksson, M. Jäntti and R. Naylor

Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries

Memo 17/2007


Kjell Arne Brekke, Gorm Kipperberg and Karine Nyborg

Reluctant Recyclers: Social Interaction in Responsibility Ascription

Memo 16/2007


Finn R. Førsund, Sverre A. C. Kittelsen and Vladimir E. Krivonozhko

Farrell Revisited: Visualising the DEA Production Frontier

Memo 15/2007


Q. Farooq Akram and Ragnar Nymoen

Model selection for monetary policy analysis - How important is empirical validity?

Memo 14/2007


Knut Røed and Lars Westlie

Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: Soft Constraints and Mild Sanctions

Memo 13/2007


Erik Hernæs and Weizhen Zhu

Pension Entitlements and Wealth Accumulation

Memo 12/2007


Øystein Kravdal and Ronald R. Rindfuss

Changing relationships between education and fertility - a study of women and men born 1940-64

Memo 11/2007


Tyra Ekhaugen

Long-term Outcomes of Vocational Rehabilitation Programs: Labor Market Transitions and Job Durations for Immigrants

Memo 10/2007


F. Bettio, M. L. Di Tommaso, I. Shima and S. Strøm

As bad as it gets: Well being deprivation of sexually exploited trafficked women

Memo 09/2007


Olav Bjerkholt

Ragnar Frisch's contribution to business cycle analysis

Memo 08/2007


Steinar Holden and Fredrik Wulfsberg

Are real wages rigid downwards?

Memo 07/2007


Morten Nordberg

Employment behaviour of marginal workers

Memo 06/2007


Morten Nordberg

Total tax on Labour Income

Memo 05/2007


B. Gabriela Mundaca

Monitoring, liquidity provision and financial crisis risk

Memo 04/2007


B. Gabriela Mundaca and Kjell Bjørn Nordal

Corporate investment, cash flow level and market imperfections: The case of Norway

Memo 03/2007


Geir B. Asheim

Procrastination, partial naivete, and behavioral welfare analysis

Memo 02/2007


Fridrik M. Baldursson and Nils-Henrik von der Fehr

Vertical Integration and Long-Term Contracts in Risky Markets

Memo 01/2007

2006

Reyer Gerlagh, Snorre Kverndokk and Knut Einar Rosendahl

Optimal Timing of Environmental Policy; Interaction Between Environmental Taxes and Innovation Externalities

Memo 26/2006


Tiziano Razzolini

Study on labour supply when tax evasion is an option with Box-Cox functional forms and random parameters

Memo 25/2006


Kjell Arne Brekke and Mari Rege

Advertising as Distortion of Learning in Markets with Network Externalities

Memo 24/2006


Kjell Arne Brekke and Mari Rege

Advertising as a Distortion of Social Learning

Memo 23/2006


Line Smart Bakken

The Golden Age of Retirement

Memo 22/2006


Rolf Golombek and Michael Hoel

Climate agreements: emission quotas versus technology policies

Memo 21/2006


John K. Dagsvik, Marilena Locatelli and Steinar Strøm

Simulating labor supply behavior when workers have preferences for job opportunities and face nonlinear budget constraints

Memo 20/2006


Cathrine Hagem

Clean development mechanism (CDM) vs. international permit trading – the impact on technological change.

Memo 19/2006


Geir B. Asheim, Tapan Mitra and Bertil Tungodden

Sustainable recursive social welfare functions.

Memo 18/2006


Geir B. Asheim, Walter Bossert, Yves Sprumont and Kotaro Suzumura

Infinite-horizon choice functions

Memo 17/2006


Erik Hernæs, Fedor Iskhakov and Steinar Strøm

Early Retirement and Company Characteristics

Memo 16/2006


Erik Hernæs, Zhiyang Jia and Steinar Strøm

Retirement in Non-Cooperative and Cooperative Families

Memo 15/2006


Hilde Bojer

Income Capability and Child Care

Memo 14/2006


Gunnar Bårdsen and Ragnar Nymoen

U.S. Natural Rate Dynamics Reconsidered

Memo 13/2006


Enrico Sorisio and Steinar Strøm

Innovation and Market Dynamics in the EPO Market

Memo 12/2006


Hilde C. Bjørnland, Leif Brubakk and Anne Sofie Jore

Forecasting inflation with an uncertain output gap

Memo 11/2006


Marina Della Giusta, Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Isilda Shima and Steinar Strøm

What money buys: clients of street sex workers in the US

Memo 10/2006


Cathrine Hagem and Hege Westskog

Distributional constraints and efficiency in a tradable permit market

Memo 09/2006


Hilde Bojer

Resources versus capabilities: a critical discussion

Memo 08/2006


Erling Barth, Alexander W. Cappelen and Tone Ognedal

Fair Tax Evasion

Memo 07/2006


John K. Dagsvik

Justifying Functional Forms in Models for Transitions between Discrete States, with Particular Reference to Employment-Unemployment Dynamics

Memo 06/2006


Hild-Marte Bjørnsen and Erik Biørn

The Joint Labour Decisions of Farm Couples: A Censored Response Analysis of On-farm and Off-farm Work

Memo 05/2006


Morten Henningsen

Moving between Welfare Payments. The Case of Sickness Insurance for the Unemployed

Memo 04/2006


Rolf Golombek and Michael Hoel

Endogenous technology and tradable emission quotas

Memo 03/2006


Jo Thori Lind

Do the rich vote Conservative because they are rich?

Memo 02/2006


Erik Hernæs, John Piggott, Tao Zhang and Steinar Strøm

The Determinants of Occupational Pensions

Memo 01/2006

 

2005

Tor Eriksson, Bernt Bratsberg and Oddbjørn Raaum

Earnings persistence across generations: Transmission through health?

Memo 35/2005


Markus Jäntti, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Oddbjørn Raaum, Robin Naylor, Eva Österbacka, Anders Björklund and Tor Eriksson

American exceptionalism in a new light: a comparison of intergenerational earnings mobility in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and the United States

Memo 34/2005


Dag Morten Dalen, Tonje Haabeth and Steinar Strøm

Price regulation and generic competition in the pharmaceutical market.

Memo 33/2005


Hilde C. Bjørnland and Håvard Hungnes

The commodity currency puzzle

Memo 32/2005


Hilde C. Bjørnland

Monetary policy and exchange rate interactions in a small open economy

Memo 31/2005


Finn R. Førsund

Hydropower Economics

Memo 30/2005


Finn R. Førsund , Sverre A.C. Kittelsen and Frode Lindseth

Efficiency and Productivity of Norwegian tax Offices

Memo 29/2005


Erling Barth and Tone Ognedal

Unreported labour

Memo 28/2005


Marina Della Giusta, Maria Laura Di Tommaso and Steinar Strøm

Who's watching? The market for prostitution services

Memo 27/2005


Hilde C. Bjørnland

Monetary Policy and the Illusionary Exchange Rate Puzzle

Memo 26/2005


Geir B. Asheim

Welfare comparisons between societies with different population sizes and environmental characteristics

Memo 25/2005


Geir B. Asheim

Can NNP be used for welfare comparisons?

Memo 24/2005


Geir B. Asheim, Wolfgang Buchholz, John M. Hartwick, Tapan Mitra and Cees Withagen

Constant savings rates and quasi-arithmetic population growth under exhaustible resource constraints

Memo 23/2005


Ragnar Nymoen

Evaluating a Central Bank’s Recent Forecast Failure

Memo 22/2005


Tyra Ekhaugen

Extracting the causal component from the intergenerational correlation in unemployment

Memo 21/2005


Knut Røed and Elisabeth Fevang

Organisational Change, Absenteeism and Welfare Dependency

Memo 20/2005


Simen Gaure, Knut Røed and Tao Zhang

Time and Causality: A Monte Carlo Assessment of the Timing-of-Events Approach

Memo 19/2005


Tyra Ekhaugen

Immigrants on Welfare: Assimilation and Benefit Substitution

Memo 18/2005


Oddbjørn Raaum, Jon Rogstad, Knut Røed and Lars Westlie

Young and Out: An Application of a Prospects-Based Concept of Social Exclusion

Memo 17/2005


Michael Hoel

Prioritizing public health expenditures when there is a private alternative

Memo 16/2005


Hans Jarle Kind, Tore Nilssen and Lars Sørgard

Advertising on TV: Under- or Overprovision?

Memo 15/2005


Olav Bjerkholt

Markets, models and planning: the Norwegian experience

Memo 14/2005


Diderik Lund

An analytical model of required returns to equity under taxation with imperfect loss offset

Memo 13/2005


Hilde C. Bjørnland and Kai Leitemo

Identifying the Interdependence between US Monetary Policy and the Stock Market

Memo 12/2005


Kari Due-Andresen

Tax evasion and labour supply in Norway in 2003: Structural modelsversus flexible functional form models

Memo 11/2005


Steinar Holden and Fredrik Wulfsberg

Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in the OECD

Memo 10/2005


Kjell Arne Brekke, Karine Nyborg and Mari Rege

The Fear of Exclusion: Individual Effort when Group Formation is Endogenous

Memo 09/2005


Geir B. Asheim and Bertil Tungodden

A new equity condition for infinite utility streams and the possibility of being Paretian

Memo 08/2005


Hilde Bojer

Income inequality and the economic position of women in Norway 1970-2002

Memo 07/2005


Øystein Jørgensen, Tone Ognedal and Steinar Strøm

Labor supply when tax evasion is an option

Memo 06/2005


Rolf Golombek and Michael Hoel

The Kyoto agreement and Technology Spillovers

Memo 05/2005


Cathrine Hagem and Hege Westskog

Dominant Agent and Intertemporal Emissions Trading

Memo 04/2005


Halvor Mehlum and Karl Moene

Fighting against the odds

Memo 03/2005


Geir B. Asheim, Carl Andreas Claussen and Tore Nilssen

Majority voting leads to unanimity

Memo 02/2005


Hans Jarle Kind, Tore Nilssen and Lars Sørgard

Financing of Media Firms: Does Competition Matter?

Memo 01/2005

 

2004

Fridrik M Baldursson and Nils-Henrik M von der Fehr

A Whiter Shade of Pale on the Political Economy of Regulatory Instruments

Memo 29/2004


Michael Hoel

Electricity prices in a mixed thermal and hydropower system

Memo 28/2004


Solveig Erlandsen and Ragnar Nymoen

Consumption and population age structure

Memo 27/2004


Taran Fæhn, Antonio G. Gómez-Plana and Snorre Kverndokk

Can a carbon permit system reduce Spanish unemployment?

Memo 26/2004


Kjell Arne Brekke and Karine Nyborg

Moral hazard and moral motivation Corporate social responsibility as labor market screening

Memo 25/2004


Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden

Local autonomy and interregional equality

Memo 24/2004


Jo Thori Lind

Does permanent income determine the vote?

Memo 23/2004


Erik Biørn, Terje Skjerpen and Knut R. Wangen

Can Random Coefficient Cobb-Douglas Production Functions Be Aggregated to Similar Macro Functions?

Memo 22/2004


Atle Seierstad

Open mapping theorems for directionally differentiable functions

Memo 21/2004


Helge Holden, Lars Holden, and Steinar Holden

Contract Renewal

Memo 20/2004


Jo Thori Lind

Repeated surveys and the Kalman filter

Memo 19/2004


Kari Eika

When quality today affects service needs Tomorrow

Memo 18/2004


Rolf Golombek and Michael Hoel

Unilateral emission reductions when there are cross -country technology spillovers

Memo 17/2004


Kjetil Bjorvatn and Alexander W. Cappelen

Globalization, inequality and redistribution

Memo 16/2004


Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden

Rewarding effort

Memo 15/2004


Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden

The liberal egalitarian paradox

Memo 14/2004


John K. Dagsvik and Steinar Strøm

Sectoral labor supply, choice restrictions and functional form

Memo 13/2004


Tiziano Razzolini

The Norwegian market for pharmaceuticals and the non-mandatory substitution reform of 2001: the case of enalapril

Memo 12/2004


Rolf Golombek and Michael Hoel

Climate Agreements and Technology Policy

Memo 11/2004


Isilda Shima

The shadow economy in Norway: Demand for currency approach

Memo 10/2004


Steinar Holden

Wage formation under low inflation

Memo 09/2004


Steinar Holden and Fredrik Wulfsberg

Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Europe

Memo 08/2004


Finn R. Førsund and Michael Hoel

Properties of a non-competitive electricity market dominated by hydroelectric power

Memo 07/2004


Svenn-Erik Mamelund

An egalitarian disease? Socioeconomic status and individual survival of the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 in the Norwegian capital of Kristiania

Memo 06/2004


Snorre Kverndokk, Knut Einar Rosendahl and Thomas F. Rutherford

Climate policies and induced technological change: Impacts and timing of technology subsidies

Memo 05/2004


Halvor Mehlum, Edward Miguel and Ragnar Torvik

Rainfall, Poverty and Crime in 19th Century Germany Memo

Memo 04/2004


Halvor Mehlum

Exact Small Sample Properties of the Instrumental Variable Estimator. A View From a Different Angle

Memo 03/2004


Karine Nyborg and Kjetil Telle

A dissolving paradox: Firms' compliance to environmental regulation.

Memo 02/2004


Taryn Ann Galloway

To What Extent Is a Transition into Employment Associated with an Exit from Poverty?

Memo 01/2004

 

2003

Atle Seierstad

Piecewise deterministic optimal control problems.

Memo 39/2003


Sheetal K. Chand

Risk, Return, and the Optimal Design of a Pension System.

Memo 38/2003


Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino and Steinar Strøm

Do More Equal Slices Shrink the Cake? An Empirical Investigation of Tax-Transfer Reform Proposals in Italy.

Memo 37/2003


Kari Eika

Low Quality-Effective Demand.

Memo 36/2003


Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein

Social Democracy as a Development Strategy.

Memo 35/2003


Finn Roar Aune, Rolf Golombek and Sverre A. C. Kittelsen

Does Increased Extraction of Natural Gas Reduce Carbon Emissions?

Memo 34/2003


Christoph Schwierz

The Effects of Taxes and Socioeconomic Variables on Market Work and Home Production in Norway in the Years 1970 to 2000.

Memo 33/2003


John K. Dagsvik, Steinar Strøm and Zhiyang Jia

A Stochastic Model for the Utility of Income.

Memo 32/2003


Karine Nyborg, Richard B. Howarth, and Kjell Arne Brekke

Green consumers and public policy: On socially contingent moral motivation.

Memo 31/2003


Halvor Mehlum

A Finer Point in Forensic Identification.

Memo 30/2003


Svenn-Erik Mamelund

Effects of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 on Later Life Mortality of Norwegian Cohorts Born About 1900.

Memo 29/2003


Fedor Iskhakov

Quasi-dynamic forward-looking model for joint household retirement decision under AFP scheme.

Memo 28/2003


Henrik Wiig

The Productivity of Social Capital - An Econometric Analysis of 49 Peruvian Highland Communities.

Memo 27/2003


Tao Zhang

Identifying treatment effects of active labour market programmes for Norwegian adults.

Memo 26/2003


Tao Zhang

A Monte Carlo study on non-parametric estimation of duration models with unobserved heterogeneity.

Memo 25/2003


Karine Nyborg and Kjetil Telle

The Role of Warnings in Regulation: Keeping Control with Less Punishment.

Memo 24/2003


Maria Kalvarskaia

Savings behaviour when households havean access to occupational pensions.

Memo 23/2003


Rolf Golombek and Michael Hoel

Climate Policy under Technology Spillovers.

Memo 22/2003


Jo Thori Lind

Fractionalization and the size of government.

Memo 21/2003


Michael Hoel, Tor Iversen, Tore Nilssen and Jon Vislie

Genetic testing and repulsion from chance.

Memo 20/2003


Jon Vislie

Domestic Environmental Policy under Asymmetric Information: The role of foreign ownership, outside options and market power.

Memo 19/2003


Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein

Income Inequality and Welfare spending: A disaggregated Analysis.

Memo 18/2003


Siwan Anderson, Jean-Marie Baland and Karl Ove Moene

Sustainability and organizational design in informal groups, with some evidence from Kenyan Roscas.

Memo 17/2003


Halvor Mehlum, Karl Ove Moene and Ragnat Torvik

Parasites

Memo 16/2003


Michael Wallerstein and Karl Ove Moene

Does the Logic of Collective Action Explain the Logic of Corporatism?

Memo 15/2003


Sheetal K. Chand

Stabilizing Poverty In The Context Of The IMF's Monetary Model

Memo 14/2003


Knut Røed and Oddbjørn Raaum

The Effect of Programme Participation on the Transition Rate from Unemployment to Employment

Memo 13/2003


Hilde C. Bjørnland

A stable demand for money despite financial crisis: The case of Venezuela

Memo 12/2003


John K. Dagsvik and Steinar Strøm

Analyzing labor supply behavior with latent job opportunity sets and institutional choice constraints

Memo 11/2003


Ugo Colombino, Erik Hernæs, Zhyiang Jia and Steinar Strøm

Retirement in Italy and Norway

Memo 10/2003


Simen Gaure and Knut Røed

How Tight is the Labour Market? A Micro-Based Macro Indicator

Memo 09/2003


Finn R. Førsund and Nikias Sarafoglou

The Tale of two Research Communities: The Diffusion of Research on Productive Efficiency

Memo 08/2003


Taryn Ann Galloway and Rolf Aaberge

Assimilation Effects on Poverty Among Immigrants in Norway

Memo 07/2003


Geir B. Asheim

Green national accounting with a changing population

Memo 06/2003


Geir B. Asheim and Ylva Søvik

The semantics of preference-based belief operators

Memo 05/2003


Zhiyang Jia

A Mixture Model of Household Retirement Choice

Memo 04/2003


Erling Eide

Optimal Provision of Public Goods with Rank Dependent Expected Utility

Memo 03/2003


Hilde C. Bjørnland

Estimating the equilibrium real exchange rate in Venezuela

Memo 02/2003


Svenn-Erik Mamelund

Can the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918 explain the baby-boom of 1920 in neutral Norway?

Memo 01/2003

 

2002

Elin Halvorsen

A Cohort Analysis of Household Saving in Norway

Memo 36/2002


V. Bhaskar and Steinar Holden

Wage Differentiation via Subsidised General Training

Memo 35/2002


Cathrine Hagem and Ottar Mæstad

Market power in the market for greenhouse gas emissions permits - the interplay with the fossil fuel markets

Memo 34/2002


Cees Withagen, Geir B. Asheim and Wolfgang Buchholz

On the sustainable program in Solow's model

Memo 33/2002


Geir B. Asheim and Wolfgang Buchholz

A General Approach to Welfare Measurement through National Income Accounting

Memo 32/2002


Geir B. Asheim

Green national accounting for welfare and sustainability: A taxonomy of assumptions and results

Memo 31/2002


Tor Jakob Klette and Arvid Raknerud

How and why do firms differ?

Memo 30/2002


Halvor Mehlum, Kalle Moene and Ragnar Torvik

Institutions and the resource curse

Memo 29/2002


Jon Strand

Public-good valuation and intrafamily allocation

Memo 28/2002


Gabriela Mundaca

Optimal bailout during currency and financial crises: A sequential game analysis

Memo 27/2002


Halvor Mehlum

At Last! An Explicit Solution for the Ramsey Saddle Path

Memo 26/2002


Steinar Holden and John C. Driscoll

Coordination, Fair Treatment and Inflation Persistence

Memo 25/2002


Atle Seierstad

Maximum principle for stochastic control in continuous time with hard end constraints

Memo 24/2002


Hilde C. Bjørnland and Håvard Hungnes

Fundamental determinants of the long run real exchange rate: The case of Norway

Memo 23/2002


Atle Seierstad

Conditions implying the vanishing of the Hamiltonian at the infinite horizon in optimal control problems

Memo 22/2002


Morten Søberg

The Duhem-Quine thesis and experimental economics: A reinterpretation

Memo 21/2002


Erling Barth Bernt Bratsberg and Oddbjørn Raaum

Local Unemployment and the Relative Wages of Immigrants: Evidence from the Current Population Surveys

Memo 20/2002


Erling Barth, Bernt Bratsberg and Oddbjørn Raaum

Local Unemployment and the Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants in Norway.

Memo 19/2002


Gunnar Bårdsen, Eilev S. Jansen and Ragnar Nymoen

Testing the New Keynesian Phillips curve

Memo 18/2002


Morten Søberg

Voting rules and endogenous trading institutions: An experimental study.

Memo 17/2002


Gabriela Mundaca

A Drift of the "Drift Adjustment Method".

Memo 16/2002


Oddbjørn Raaum, Hege Torp and Tao Zhang

Do individual programme effects exceed the costs? Norwegian evidence on long run effects of labour market training.

Memo 15/2002


Oddbjørn Raaum, Hege Torp and Tao Zhang

Business cycles and the impact of labour market programmes.

Memo 14/2002


Geir B. Asheim, Anne Wenche Emblem and Tore Nilssen

Deductibles in Health Insurances: Pay or Pain

Memo 13/2002


Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed

Do Business Cycle Conditions at the Time of Labour Market Entry Affect Future Unemployment?

Memo 12/2002


Halvor Mehlum and Karl Ove Moene

Battlefields and Marketplaces.

Memo 11/2002


Halvor Mehlum, Kalle Moene and Ragnar Torvik

Plunder & Protections Inc.

Memo 10/2002


Knut Røed, Peter Jensen and Anna Thoursie

Unemployment Duration, Incentives and Institutions - A Micro-Econometric Analysis Based on Scandinavian Data

Memo 09/2002


Hilde Bojer

The Time Cost of Children and Equivalent Full Incomes

Memo 08/2002


Rolf Aaberge

Characterization and Measurement of Duration Dependence in Hazard Rates Models.

Memo 07/2002


Knut Røed and Tao Zhang

The Duration and Outcome of Unemployment Spells- The role of Economic Incentives.

Memo 06/2002


Morten Søberg

A laboratory stress-test of bid, double and offer auctions.

Memo 05/2002


Jon Strand Environmental

Kuzents curves:Empirical relationships between environmental quality and economic development.

Memo 04/2002


Erling Barth, Bernt Bratsberg, Robin A. Naylor, and Oddbjørn Raaum

Explaining Variations in Wage Curves: Theory and Evidence.

Memo 03/2002


Tor Jakob Klette and Samuel Kortum

Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation.

Memo 02/2002


Fridrik M. Baldursson and Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr

Prices vs quantities: the case of risk averse agents.

Memo 01/2002

 

2001

Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G. Salvanes and Erik Ø. Sørensen

The neighbourhood is not what it used to be has there been equalisation of opportunity across families and communities in Norway?

Memo 36/2001


Finn R. Førsund and Dag Fjeld Edvardsen

International Benchmarking of Electricity Distribution Utilities.

Memo 35/2001


Finn R. Førsund and Ove Wolfgang

The Compensation Mechanism in the RAINS Model The Norwegian Targets for Acidification.

Memo 34/2001


Christian Brinch, Erik Hernæs, and Steinar Strøm

Labour Supply Effects of an Early Retirement Programme.

Memo 33/2001


Tone Ognedal

Should the standard of evidence be lowered to reduce crime?

Memo 32/2001


Jon Strand

Public- and private-good values of statistical lives Results from a combined choice-experiment and contingent-valuation survey.

Memo 31/2001


Ove Wolfgang

Cost-effective Abatement of Ground-level Ozone in Cities and for Larger Regions Implications of Non-monotonicity.

Memo 30/2001


Svenn-Erik Mamelund

The Spanish Influenza among Norwegian ethnic minorities 1918-1919.

Memo 29/2001


Erik Biørn

The Efficiency of Panel Data Estimators GLS Versus Estimators Which Do Not Depend on Variance Components.

Memo 28/2001


Qaisar Farooq Akram and Ragnar Nymoen

Employment behaviour in slack and tight labour markets.

Memo 27/2001


Snorre Kverndokk, Knut Einar Rosendahl and Thomas F. Rutherford

Climate policies and induced technological change Which to choose the carrot or the stick?

Memo 26/2001


Olav Bjerkholt

Tracing Haavelmo's steps from Confluence Analysis to the Probability Approach.

Memo 25/2001


Sverre A.C. Kittelsen, Guri Galtung Kjæserud and Odd Jarle Kvamme

Errors in Survey Based Quality Evaluation Variables in Efficiency Models of Primary Care Physicians.

Memo 24/2001


Ove Wolfgang

Eco-Correlation in Acidification Scenarios.

Memo 23/2001


Øystein Kravdal

The High Fertility of College Educated Women in Norway An Artefact of the 'Piecemeal Approach'.

Memo 22/2001


Yngve Willassen

On the Economics of the Optimal Fallow-Cultivation Cycle.

Memo 21/2001


Michael Hoel

Allocating greenhouse gas emissions among countries with mobile populations

Memo 20/2001


Tore Nilssen and Lars Sørgard

Who Are the Advertisers?

Memo 19/2001


Tore Nilssen and Lars Sørgard

The TV Industry: Advertising and Programming

Memo 18/2001


Michael Hoel

Domestic inefficiencies caused by transboundary pollution problems when there is no international coordination of environmental policies

Memo 17/2001


Steinar Holden

Monetary policy and nominal rigidities under low inflation

Memo 16/2001


Sheetal K. Chand

POVERTY ALLEVIATION AS A CENTRAL OBJECTIVE OF DEVELOPING COUNTRY MACROECONOMIC POLICY

Memo 15/2001


Finn Roar Aune, Rolf Golombek, Sverre A. C. Kittelsen and Knut Einar Rosendahl

Liberalising the Energy Markets of Western Europe- A Computable Equilibrium Model Approach

Memo 14/2001


Diderik Lund

Taxation, uncertainty, and the cost of equity for a multinational firm

Memo 13/2001


Knut Røed and Morten Nordberg

Temporary Layoffs and the Duration of Unemployment

Memo 12/2001


Bergljot Bjørnson Barkbu, Ragnar Nymoen and Knut Røed

Wage coordination and unemployment dynamics in Norway and Sweden

Memo 11/2001


Steinar Holden

Does price stability exacerbate labour market rigidities in the EMU?

Memo 10/2001


Steinar Holden and John C. Driscoll

A Note on Inflation Persistence

Memo 09/2001


Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen and Erik Biørn

ESTIMATING ADDICTS' PRICE RESPONSE OF HEROIN: A PANEL DATA APPROACH BASED ON A RE-INTERVIEWED SAMPLE

Memo 08/2001


Jon Vislie

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION, ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION AND FOREIGN OWNERSHIP

Memo 07/2001


Erik Biørn

HOW IS GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARES RELATED TO WITHIN AND BETWEEN ESTIMATORS IN UNBALANCED PANEL DATA?

Memo 06/2001


Atle Seierstad

NECESSARY CONDITIONS AND SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS FOR OPTIMAL CONTROL OF PIECEWISE DETERMINISTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS

Memo 05/2001


Pål Longva

Out-Migration of Immigrants: Implications for Assimilation Analysis

Memo 04/2001


Øystein Kravdal

The Importance of Education for Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa is Substantially Underestimated When Community Effects are Ignored

Memo 03/2001


Geir B. Asheim and Martin L. Weitzman

DOES NNP GROWTH INDICATE WELFARE IMPROVEMENT?

Memo 02/2001


Tore Schweder and Nils Lid Hjort

Confidence and Likelihood

Memo 01/2001

 

2000

Mads Greaker

Strategic Environmental Policy when the Governments are Threatened by Relocation

Memo 43/2000


Øystein Kravdal

The Impact of Individual and Aggregate Unemployment on Fertility in Norway

Memo 42/2000


Michael Hoel and Erik Magnus Sæther

Private health care as a supplement to a public health system with waiting time for treatment

Memo 41/2000


Geir B. Asheim, Anne Wenche Emblem and Tore Nilssen

Health Insurance: Treatment vs. Compensation Memo

Memo 40/2000


Diderik Lund and Tore Nilssen

Cream Skimming, Dregs Skimming, and Pooling: On the Dynamics of Competitive Screening

Memo 39/2000


Geir B. Asheim and Andrés Perea

LEXICOGRAPHIC PROBABILITIES AND RATIONALIZABILITY IN EXTENSIVE GAMES

Memo 38/2000


Geir B. Asheim and Wolfgang Buchholz

THE MALLEABILITY OF UNDISCOUNTED UTILITARIANISM AS A CRITERION OF INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE

Memo 37/2000


Olav Bjerkholt

A turning point in the development of Norwegian economics - the establishment of the University Institute of Economics in 1932

Memo 36/2000


Jon Strand

Tax distortions, household production and black-market work

Memo 35/2000


Snorre Kverndokk and Knut Einar Rosendahl

CO2 mitigation costs and ancillary benefits in the Nordic countries, the UK and Ireland: A survey

Memo 34/2000


Jon Strand

Competitive effort and employment determination with team production

Memo 33/2000


Øyvind Eitrheim, Eilev S. Jansen and Ragnar Nymoen

Progress from forecast failure - The Norwegian consumption function

Memo 32/2000


Michael Hoel and Tor Iversen

Genetic testing when there is a mix of public and private health insurance

Memo 31/2000


Geir Høidal Bjønnes and Dagfinn Rime

Customer Trading and Information in Foreign Exchange Markets

Memo 30/2000


Geir Høidal Bjønnes and Dagfinn Rime

FX Trading… LIVE! Dealer Behavior and Trading Systems in Foreign Exchange Markets

Memo 29/2000


Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund and Johan Heldal

Educational Homogamy in Norway - trends and patterns

Memo 28/2000


Halvor Mehlum, Karl Moene and Ragnar Torvik

Predator or Prey? Parasitic enterprises in economic development

Memo 27/2000


Atle Seierstad

Sharpened nonsmooth maximum principle for control problems in finite dimensional state space

Memo 26/2000


Geir B. Asheim

Deriving Belief Operators from Preferences

Memo 25/2000


Finn R. Førsund and Nikias Sarafoglou

On The Origins of Data Envelopment Analysis

Memo 24/2000


Knut Røed and Tao Zhang

A Note on the Weibull Distribution and Time Aggregation Bias

Memo 23/2000


Atle Seierstad

Nonsmooth maximum principle for control problems in Banach state space

Memo 22/2000


Diderik Lund

Imperfect loss offset and the after-tax expected rate of return to equity, with an application to rent taxation

Memo 21/2000


Christian Brinch

Identification of Structural Duration Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity with Time-varying Covariates

Memo 20/2000


Knut Røed and Morten Nordberg

Have the Relative Employment Prospects for the Low-Skilled Deteriorated After All?

Memo 19/2000


Jon Vislie

Environmental Regulation under Asymmetric Information with Type-dependent outside Option.

Memo 18/2000


Tore Nilssen and Lars Sørgard

Strategic Informative Advertising in a TV-Advertising Duopoly.

Memo 17/2000


Michael Hoel and Perry Shapiro

Transboundary Environmental Problems with a Mobile Population: Is There a Need for Central Policy?

Memo 16/2000


Knut Røed and Tao Zhang

Labour Market Transitions and Economic Incentives.

Memo 15/2000


Dagfinn Rime

Private or Public Information in Foreign Exchange Markets? An Empirical Analysis.

Memo 14/2000


Erik Hernæs and Steinar Strøm

Family Labour Supply when the Husband is Eligible for Early Retirement.

Memo 13/2000


Erik Biørn

The rate of capital retirement: How is it related to the form of the survival function and the investment growth path?

Memo 12/2000


Geir B. Asheim and Wolfgang Buchholz

The Hartwick rule: Myths and facts.

Memo 11/2000


Tore Nilssen

Risk Externalities in A Payments Oligopoly.

Memo 10/2000


Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr and Lone Semmingsen

Influencing Bureaucratic Decisions.

Memo 09/2000


Geir B. Asheim and Martin Dufwenberg

Deductive Reasoning in Extensive Games.

Memo 08/2000


Geir B. Asheim and Martin Dufwenberg

Admissibility and Common Belief.

Memo 07/2000


Nico Keilman

Demographic Translation: From Period to Cohort Perspective and Back.

Memo 06/2000


Pål Longva and Oddbjørn Raaum

Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants in Norway - A Reappraisal.

Memo 05/2000


Jia Zhiyang

Family Labor Supply when the Husband is Eligible for Early Retirement: Some Empirical Evidences.

Memo 04/2000


Mads Greaker

Strategic Environmental Policy; Eco-dumping or a Green Strategy?

ISSN: 0801-1117

Memo 03/2000


Ole J. Røgeberg

Married Men and Early Retirement Under the AFP Scheme.

Memo 02/2000


Steinar Holden

Monetary regime and the co-ordination of wage setting.

Memo 01/2000

 

1999

Knut Røed

Relative Unemployment Rates and Skill-Biased Technological Change

Memo 38/1999


Finn R. Førsund

Modelling Transboundary Air Pollution: The Rains Model Approach

Memo 37/1999


Christian Brinch

Statistical Discrimination and the Returns to Human Capital and Credentials

Memo 36/1999


Halvor Mehlum, Karl Ove Moene and Ragnar Torvik

Crime Induced Poverty Traps

Memo 35/1999


Ove Wolfgang

Reflections on Abatement Modelling

Memo 34/1999


Jon Strand

Effects of Progressive Taxes under Decentralized Bargaining and Heterogeneous Labor

Memo 33/1999


Espen Erlandsen and Finn R. Førsund

Efficiency in the Provision of Municipal Nursing- and Home-Care Services: The Norwegian Experience

Memo 32/1999


Geir B. Asheim

Proper Consistency

Memo 31/1999


Geir B. Asheim

On the Epistemic Foundation for Backward Induction

Memo 30/1999


Jon Strand

Labor unions versus individualized bargaining with heterogeneous labor

ISSN: 0801-1117

Memo 29/1999


Jon Vislie

The role of foreign ownership in domestic environmental regulation under asymmetric information

Memo 28/1999


Erik Biørn

Random Coefficients in Regression Equation Systems: The case with unbalanced panel data

Memo 27/1999


Gunnar Bårdsen, Eilev S. Jansen and Ragnar Nymoen

Econometric inflation targeting

ISSN: 0801-1117

Memo 26/1999


Sheetal K. Chand and Karl Ove Moene

Rent Grabbing and Russia's Economic Collapse

Memo 25/1999


Rolf Golombek and Espen R. Moen

Do Voluntary Agreements Lead to Cost Efficiency?

ISSN: 0801-1117

Memo 24/1999


Atle Seierstad

Necessary conditions involving generalized directional derivatives for optimal control of nonsmooth retarded Volterra integral equations in Banach space

Memo 23/1999


Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein

Inequality, Social Insurance and Redistribution

ISSN: 0801-1117

Memo 22/1999


Kai Leitemo

Inflation Targeting Strategies in Small Open Economies

Memo 21/1999


Erik Biørn

Estimating Regression Systems from Unbalanced Panel Data: A Stepwise Maximum Likelihood Procedure

Memo 20/1999


Knut Røed and Steinar Strøm

Progressive Taxes and the Labour Market - Is the Trade-Off between Equality and Efficiency Inevitable?

Memo 19/1999


Erik Hernæs

Fewer in Number but Harder to Employ: Incidence and Duration of Unemployment in an Economic Upswing

Memo 18/1999


Erik Hernæs, Marte Sollie and Steinar Strøm

Early Retirement and Economic Incentives

Memo 17/1999


Oddbjørn Raaum and Tom Erik Aabø

The effect of schooling on earnings: The role of family background studied by a large sample of Norwegian twins

Memo 16/1999


T. Hægeland, T.J. Klette and K.G. Salvanes

Declining returns to education in Norway? Comparing estimates across cohorts, sectors, and over time

ISSN 0801-1117

Memo 15/1999


Knut Røed and Tao Zhang

Unemployment Duration in a Non-Stationary Macroeconomic Environment Memo

14/1999


Tor Jakob Klette, Jarle Møen and Zvi Griliches

Do subsidies to commercial R&D reduce market failures? Microeconometric evaluation studies

ISSN 0801-1117

Memo 13/1999


Steinar Holden

Wage setting under different Monetary regimes

Memo 12/1999


F.R. Førsund and Kjell Ove Kalhagen

Efficiency and Productivity of Norwegian Colleges

Memo 11/1999


Asbjørn Rødseth and Ragnar Nymoen

Nordic Wage Formation and Unemployment seven years later

Memo 10/1999


Sverre A.C. Kittelsen

Monte Carlo Simulations of DEA Efficiency Measures and Hypothesis Tests

Memo 09/1999


Geir B. Asheim

Wolfgang Buchholz and Bertil Tungodden: Justifying Sustainability

Memo 08/1999


Knut Røed and Tao Zhang

What hides behind the rate of unemployment? Micro evidence from Norway

Memo 07/1999


Tone Ognedal

Should the standard of evidence be reduced for white collar crimes?

Memo 06/1999


Eivind Bjøntegård

The Composite Mean Regression as a Tool in Production Studies

Memo 05/1999


Kai Leitemo and Øistein Røisland

Effects on the Traded and Non-Traded Sectors

Memo 04/1999


Steinar Strøm

The Economics of Screening Programs

Memo 03/1999


Pedro P. Barros and Tore Nilssen

Industrial Policy and Firm Heterogeneity

Memo 02/1999


B. Gabriela Mundaca and Jon Strand

Speculative attacks in the exchange market with a band policy: A sequential game analysis

Memo 01/1999

 

1998

Øyvind Eitrheim, Tore Anders Husebø and Ragnar Nymoen

Error-correction versus Differencing in Macroeconometric Forecasting

Memo 01/1998


Pål Longva and Oddbjørn Raaum

Unemployment and Relative Earnings of Immigrants

ISBN 82-570-9163-4

Memo 02/1998


Øystein Kravdal

Social Inequalities in Cancer Survival

Memo 03/1998


Steinar Holden Wage

Drift and the Relevance of Centralised Wage Setting

Memo 04/1998


Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord

Competition in Electricity Spot Markets Economic Theory and International Experience

Memo 05/1998


Yngve Willassen

Deriving Bounds on the Structural Vector when the Measurement Errors are Correlated An elaboration of the Frisch/Reiersøl Approach

Memo 06/1998


Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr and Christian Riis

Option Values in Sequential Markets

Memo 07/1998


Geir B. Asheim

Green National Accounting Why and How?

Memo 08/1998


Fridrik M. Baldursson and Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr

Prices vs Quantities: The Irrelevance of Irreversibility

ISBN 82-570-9170-7

Memo 09/1998


Kåre N. Edvardsen

Ragnar Frisch: An annotated bibliography

ISBN 82-570-9171-5

Memo 10/1998


John K. Dagsvik

On the Structure of Behavioral Multistate Duration Models

Memo 11/1998


Torben M. Andersen and Steinar Holden

Business Cycles and Fiscal Policy in an Open Economy

Memo 12/1998


Dag Morten Dalen, Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr and Espen R. Moen

Regulation and Wage Bargaining

Memo 13/1998


Jon Wage Strand

Bargaining and Turnover Costs with Heterogeneous Labor: The no-screening Case

Memo 14/1998


Tor Jakob Klette

Market Power, Scale Economies and Productivity: Estimates from a Panel of Establishment Data

Memo 15/1998


Tor Jakob Klette and Jarle Møen

From Growth Theory to Technology Policy - Coordination Problems in Theory and Practice

Memo 16/1998


Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino, Steinar Strøm and Tom Wennemo

Evaluating Alternative Tax Reforms in Italy with a Model of Joint Labor Supply of Married Couples

Memo 17/1998


Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino and Steinar Strøm

Labor Supply Responses and Welfare Effects from Replacing Current Tax Rules by a Flat Tax Empirical Evidence from Italy, Norway and Sweden

Memo 18/1998


Erik Biørn

Panel Data with Measurement Errors Instrumental Variables and GMM Procedures Combining Levels and Differences

ISBN 82-570-9181-2

Memo 19/1998


Hilde E. Halvorsen and Diderik Lund

Rent Taxation when Cost Transfers are Possible, but Costly

Memo 20/1998


Jon Strand

Water Pricing in Honduras A Political Economy Analysis

Memo 21/1998


Jon Strand

Bargaining Versus Efficiency Wages in A Dynamic Labor Market A Synthesis

Memo 22/1998


Tor Jakob Klette and Zvi Griliches

Empirical Patterns of Firm Growth and R&D Investment A Quality Ladder Model Interpretation

Memo 23/1998


Torbjoern Haegeland and Tor Jakob Klette

Do Higher Wages Reflect Higher Productivity? Education, Gender and Experience Premiums in a Matched Plant-Worker Data Set

ISBN 82-570-9186-3z

Memo 24/1998


Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein

Inequality and Redistribution

ISBN 82-570-9187-1

Memo 25/1998


Steinar Holden and Karl Ove Moene

Measures to improve Wage Formation in Sweden

ISBN 82-570-9189-8

Memo 26/1998


Frode Johansen and Tor Jakob Klette Wage

Employment Effects of Payroll Taxes and Investment Subsidies

ISBN 82-570-9190-1

Memo 27/1998


Hilde Bojer

Equivalence Scales and Intra-household Distribution

ISBN 82-570-9192-8

Memo 28/1998

1997

Derek J. Clark and Christian Riis

The Role of Asymmetry in a Competitive Bribery Game

Memo 01/1997

ISBN 82-570-9131-6


B. Gabriela Mundaca and Jon Strand

Optimal Exchange Rate Fluctuations under Risk Aversion and Short-Run Wage Rigidity

Memo 02/1997

ISBN 82-570-9132-4


Rolf Golombek

Export Performance of Small and Large Firms: Evidence from Norway

Memo 03/1997

ISBN 82-570-9133-2


Derek J. Clark and Christian Riis

Influence and the Discretionary Allocation of Several Prizes

Memo 04/1997

ISBN 82-570-9134-0


Kåre Bævre, Christian Riis and Tore Thonstad

Norwegian Cohort Emigration

Memo 05/1997

ISBN 82-570-9135-9


Karl Ove Moene, Ragnar Nymoen and Michael Wallerstein

The Persistence of Slack and Tight Labor Markets

Memo 06/1997

ISBN 82-570-9136-7


Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein

Social Democratic Labor Market Institutions: A Retrospective Analysis

Memo 07/1997

ISBN 82-570-9137-5


Øystein Kravdal

Does Marriage Require a Stronger Economic Platform than Informal Cohabitation?

Memo 08/1997

ISBN 82-570-9138-3


Øystein Kravdal

Wanting a Child but not a Firm Commitment to the Partner: Interpretations and Implications of a Common Behaviour among Norwegian Cohabitors

Memo 10/1997

ISBN 82-570-9140-5


Jon Strand and Mette Vågnes

The Relationship Between Property Values and Railroad Proximity: A Study Based on Hedsonic Prices and Real Estate Brokers' Appraisals

Memo 11/1997

ISBN 82-570-9141-3


Preben Munthe

KRISE-ØKONOMI

Memo 12/1997

ISBN 82-570-9142-1


Michael Hoel

Emission Taxes versus other Environmental Policies

Memo 13/1997

ISBN 82-570-9144-8


Steinar Strøm and Chen Wei

Labour Market Transitions in the Elderly Population in Norway

Memo 14/1997

ISBN 82-570-9145-6


Atle Seierstad

Dynamic Programming Approach to infinite Horizon Deterministic Continuous Time Control Problems

Memo 15/1997

ISBN 82-570-9146-4


Erik Biørn and Tor Jakob Klette

Variable Differencing and GMM Estimation with Panel Data with Errors-In-Variables

Memo 16/1997

ISBN 82-570-9147-2


Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein

Political Support for Targeted versus Universalistic Welfare Policies

Memo 17/1997

ISBN 82-570-9148-0


Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino and Steinar Strøm

Joint Labor Supply Decisions of Married Females and Males: An Empirical Analysis Based on Italian Household Data

Memo 18/1997

ISBN 82-570-9149-9


Finn R. Førsund and Eric Nævdal

Trading sulphur emissions under the Second Sulphur Protocol

Memo 19/1997

ISBN 82-570-9150-2


Tore Nilssen

Consumer Lock-in with Asymmetric Information

Memo 20/1997

ISBN 82-570-9151-0


Tore Nilssen and Lars Sørgard

Time Schedule and Programme Profile: TV News in Norway and Denmark

Memo 21/1997

ISBN 82-570-9152-9


John K. Dagsvik and Steinar Strøm

A Framework for Labor Supply Analysis in the Presence of Complicated Budget Restrictions and Qualitative Opportunity Aspects

Memo 22/1997

ISBN 82-570-9153-7


Johan Heldal

Backwards Canonical Regression

Memo 23/1997

ISBN 82-570-9154-5


Hilde Bojer

The Effect on Inequality of Changes in an Income Component

Memo 24/1997

ISBN 82-570-9155-3


Tore Ellingsen and Steinar Holden

Indebtedness and Unemployment: A Durable Relationship

Memo 25/1997

ISBN 82-570-9156-1


Sheetal K. Chand and Karl Ove Moene

Controlling Fiscal Corruption

Memo 26/1997

ISBN 82-570-9158-8


Nils-Henrik M. Von der Fehr and David Cameron Harbord

Capacity Investment and Competition in Decentralised Electricity Markets

Memo 27/1997

ISBN 82-570-9159-6


Erik Biørn

Panel Data, Heterogeneity, and Aggregation: A General Moment Estimator with Applications

Memo 28/1997

ISBN 82-570-9161

1996

Nils-Henrik Mørch von der Fehr and Kristin Stevik

Persuasive Advertising and Product Differentiation

Memo 01/1996

ISBN 82-570-9089-1


Espen R. Moen

Strategic Bargaining in Search Equilibrium

Memo 02/1996

ISBN 82-570-9090-5


Michael Hoel

Coordination of Environmental Policy for Transboundary Environmental Problems?

Memo 03/1996

ISBN 82-570-9091-3


Geir B. Asheim and Martin Dufwenberg

Admissibility and Common Knowledge

Memo 04/1996

ISBN 82-570-9092-1


Derek J. Clark and Christian Riis

On the Win Probability in Rent-Seeking Games

Memo 05/1996

ISBN 82-570-9094-8


Rolf Golombek

The Impact of a Unilateral Carbon Tax on Carbon-Intensive Industries: Evidence from Norway

Memo 06/1997

ISBN 82-570-9095-6


Asbjørn Rødseth

Exchange Rate Versus Price Level Targets

Memo 07/1996

ISBN 82-570-9096-4


Espen R. Moen

Human Capital Investments and Market Imperfections

Memo 08/1996

ISBN 82-570-9097-2


Øistein Røisland

The Dynamic Effects of Exchange Rate and Price Stabilization Targets

Memo 09/1996

ISBN 82-570-9098-0


Jan Bråten and Rolf Golombek

OPEC's Response to International Climate Agreements

Memo 10/1996

ISBN 82-570-9099-9


Rolf Golombek, Eystein Gjelsvik and Knut Einar Rosendahl

Increased Competition on the Supply Side of the Western European Natural Gas Market

Memo 11/1996

ISBN 82-570-9100-6


Tore Schweder

Sampling with Overlapping Questionnaires; and Analysis with Regression Imputation

Memo 12/1996

ISBN 82-570-9101-4


Tore Schweder

Bayesian Synthesis or Likelihood Synthesis - what does the Borel Paradox say?

Memo 13/1996

ISBN 82-570-9102-2


Erik Biørn and Tor Jakob Klette

The Labour Input Response to Permanent Changes in Output: Errors in Variables Econometrics based on Panel Data

Memo 14/1996

ISBN 82-570-9103-0


Jon Strand

Firing Costs and Average Employment with Efficient Labor Contracts

Memo 15/1996

ISBN 82-570-9104-9


Jon Strand

Pollution Taxation and Revenue Recycling under Monopoly Unions

Memo 16/1996

ISBN 82-570-9105-7


Liansheng Wang

Protection as Promotion of Foreign Direct Investment

Memo 17/1996

ISBN 82-570-9106-5


Liansheng Wang

The Political Economy of Protection and Foreign Direct Investment

Memo 18/1996

ISBN 82-570-9107-3


Pål Longva and Steinar Strøm

The Gender Wage Gap: An Inter-Industry Approach

Memo 19/1996

ISBN 82-570-9108-1


Geir B. Asheim

Individual and Collective Time-Consistency

Memo 20/1996

ISBN 82-570-9110-3


Espen R. Moen

Efficient Ways to Finance Human Capital Investments

Memo 21/1996

ISBN 82-570-9111-1


Tone Ognedal

Deep Pocket Punishment of Corporate Crime

Memo 22/1996

ISBN 82-570-9113-8


Frederik Wulfsberg

Adjustment Costs and Dynamic Labour Demand in Norwegian Manufacturing Firms

Memo 23/1996

ISBN 82-570-9114-6


Karl Ove Moene

Addiction and Social Interaction

Memo 24/1996

ISBN 82-570-9115-4


Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein

Redistribution of Assets versus Redistribution of Income: Comments on Efficient Redistribution by Bowles and Gintis

Memo 25/1996

ISBN 82-570-9116-2


Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein

Pay Inequality and Job Creation

Memo 26/1996

ISBN 82-570-9117-0


Derek J. Clark and Christian Riis

Rank-Order Tournaments and Selection

Memo 27/1996

ISBN 82-570-9118-9


Liansheng Wang

Growth with Foreign Investment, Learning and Spillovers

Memo 28/1996

ISBN 82-570-9119-7


Liansheng Wang

Growth and Wage Inequality with Foreign Investment

Memo 29/1996

ISBN 82-570-9120-0


Tor Jakob Klette and Yngve Willassen

Correlated Errors-in-variables, too few Instrumental Variables, and Bounds on Parameters

Memo 30/1996

ISBN 82-570-9121-9


Yngve Willassen

The Stochastic Rotation Problem - A Generalization of Faustmann's Formula to Stochastic Forest Growth

Memo 31/1996

ISBN 82-570-9122-7


Kari H. Eika, Neil R. Ericsson and Ragnar Nymoen

Hazards in Implementing a Monetary Conditions Index

Memo 32/1996

ISBN 82-570-9123-5


Atle Seierstad

Nonsmooth infinite horizon control problems

Memo 33/1996

ISBN 82-570-9124-3


Steinar Holden

The Unemployment Problem - a Norwegian Perspective

Memo 34/1996

ISBN 82-570-9125-1


Tore Nilssen and Lars Sørgard

Strategic Location with Asymmetric Transportation Costs

Memo 35/1996

ISBN 82-570-9127-8


Tore Nilssen

Sequential Location when Transportation Costs are Asymmetric

Memo 36/1996

ISBN 82-570-9128-6


Bente Halvorsen, Jon Strand, Kjartan Sælensminde and Fred Wenstøp

Comparing Contingent Valuation, Conjoint Analysis and Decision Panels: An Application to the Valuation of reduced Damages from Air Pollution in Norway

Memo 37/1996

ISBN 82-570-9129-4


Frederik Wulfsberg

Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Wage Pressure? Panel Data Evidence from Norway

Memo 38/1996

ISBN 82-570-9130-8

 

1995

O. Raaum and F.Wulfsberg,

Unemployment, Labour Market, Programmes and Wages in Norway

Memo 24/1995

 

1990

Finn R. Førsund

The Malmquist Productivity Index

Memo 28/1990

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