Browsing NHH Brage by Subject "economics"
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Adoption of green technology : Do temporary electricity price shocks affect the adoption of heat pumps?
(Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis, we aim to explore if temporary electricity price shocks affect adoption of heat pumps. In order to do this we construct panel data by combining sources from Enova and NordPool on number of subsidized heat ... -
After the rain : exploring the link between rainfall shocks and early childhood development
(Master thesis, 2019)This thesis studies the link between exogenous and unforeseen variations in household income and the development level of very young children in Uganda using rainfall shocks as an instrument for income variation. The ... -
Agricultural productivity and the fight against deforestation : an empirical analysis of the effect of factor-biased technical change on agricultural land use and forests in Brazil
(Master thesis, 2018)The aim of this thesis is to study the effect of two new agricultural technologies on agricultural land use and forests. To guide our empirical work, we present a simple model in which the effect on land use in agriculture ... -
The air passenger tax : an empirical analysis of the effect of the air passengers tax on air-traffic volumes for domestic routes in Norway
(Master thesis, 2020)This master’s thesis seeks to analyse the effect of the Air Passenger Tax, introduced by the Norwegian government in 2016 on all flights departing a Norwegian airport. The future of the Air Passenger Tax is of current ... -
Allocation of resources in the presence of indivisibilities : Scarf’s problem revisited
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-06)In his article “The Allocation of Resources in the Presence of Indivisibilities,” Scarf points out that the major problem presented to economic theory by the presence of indivisibilities is the impossibility of detecting ... -
An analysis of the long-term and dynamic effects of the US money market fund reform on NIBOR
(Master thesis, 2017)NIBOR, the Norwegian Interbank Offered Rate, is an important reference rate for financial products in the Norwegian market. It has also become of increasing interest as conventional monetary policy tools have become less ... -
An assessment of the claimed renminbi misalignment through the application of the Penn effect model
(Master thesis, 2014)In this thesis we explore the claimed renminbi misalignment through the application of the Penn effect model. The Penn effect model estimates equilibrium exchange rates by exploiting the empirical relation between real ... -
An empirical analysis of health effects from electrification: evidence from Norway 1900-1921
(Master thesis, 2016)Does access to electricity from hydroelectricity plants affect the health of a population? The aim of this thesis is to analyze the health effects from hydroelectricity at a time when electrification was more or less ... -
An exploratory study of economic incentives and corporate tax evasion : how can economic incentives to self-report reduce corporate tax evasion in Norway?
(Master thesis, 2019)The thesis aims to answer how economic incentives to self-report can reduce corporate tax evasion in Norway. To do so, I make a theoretical and empirical comparison, using a literature review and interviews with Skatteetaten ... -
Analysing the gender wage gap Empirical evidence from Germany and the United States
(Master thesis, 2023)The main objective of this thesis is to investigate the potential sources of the gender wage gap in Germany and the United States. For that purpose, we employ high quality microdata sets from the German Socio-Economic ... -
An Analysis of Consumer Demand in Switzerland : Estimation of a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System with Censored Alcohol Consumption
(Master thesis, 2021)In this thesis, I estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System using Swiss household expenditure data from 2006-2017. To control for the censored budget share variable of alcohol, I implemented a two-step Heckman-type ... -
The Arab spring : economic causes and consequences of the Arab spring : an empirical socio-economic analysis
(Master thesis, 2021)The purpose of this thesis is to elaborate on the prelude and postlude of widespread protests across the Middle East and North Africa in 2010 and subsequent years. These series of events became known as the Arab Spring. ... -
Are boys still short? : a study on sex differences in stunting prevalence over socio-economic status among children in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Master thesis, 2018)Background: Over 150 million children worldwide are stunted. In Sub-Saharan Africa alone more than 1 in every 3 children is stunted due to insufficient food intake, boys being the most vulnerable according to prior ... -
Assessing the effect of moves in the key policy rate : a narrative approach for Norway
(Master thesis, 2016)This thesis estimates the effect of the key policy rate on inflation and output for the Norwegian economy. It applies the narrative identification strategy, pioneered by Romer and Romer, to identify monetary policy shocks ... -
Behavioral Responses to Tax Salience : Evidence from Tanzania : An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Tax Salience on Mobile Money Transactions
(Master thesis, 2023)A central assumption in public economics is that individuals optimize fully to tax policies, meaning they respond to tax changes similarly to price changes. However, a growing body of evidence in the field of tax salience ... -
Betydningen av rekkeviddeangst på elbilsalget : Norge 2010-2016
(Master thesis, 2017)Vi undersøker hvor viktig reduksjon av rekkeviddeangst har vært for salget av elbiler i de fire mest folkerike kommunene i Norge i perioden 2010-2016. Dette gjør vi ved å studere hvilken effekt bedre ladeinfrastruktur ... -
Blinded by the choice : an experimental study on luck, choice and distributive justice
(Master thesis, 2012)This thesis aims to study moral motivation in economic decision making and to increase understanding of how we treat the element of choice when it comes to economic inequality and distribution of income. Most people agree ... -
Bridging the Atlantic : The Integration of European and North American Natural Gas Markets
(Master thesis, 2021)The purpose of this thesis is to answer the question whether the transatlantic market for natural gas is integrated or not. The driving forces that are presently influencing the market and which forces might influence the ... -
Can entrepreneurial skills be taught? : experimental evidence from young Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2014)In this paper we are interested in measuring the impact of a business training program held in Dar es Salaam as a partnership between the Norwegian School of Economics and the University of Dar es Salaam Entrepreneurship ... -
Children in the beauty contest game : behaviour and determinants of game performance
(Master thesis, 2019)This study investigates the behaviour of children aged 8-11 in a beauty contest game with ten repetitions. We observe that choices convergence towards the unique Nash equilibrium over time. Using data on children’s ...