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Fordelingspreferanser : en internasjonal sammenligning basert på diktatorspill med produksjonsfase
(Master thesis, 2007)Fra 28. februar til 2. mars 2007 ble det gjennomført økonomiske eksperimenter som omfattet fire land; Norge, Uganda, Tanzania og Tyskland. Eksperimentet var ledet av professor Alexander Cappelen, professor Kalle Moane, ... -
Fordelingsvirkninger av merverdiavgiften over livsløpet
(Rapport, Research report, 2002-07)Fordelingsanalyser av inntekt, skatter, overføringer og offentlige tjenester i et livsløpsperspektiv viser at store deler av omfordelingen en finner i tverrsnittsanalyser ikke er overføring av livsinntekt mellom individer, ... -
Forecast behavior in business cycles and periods of different monetary policy regimes: a case study of private sector forecasts in Japan from 1989 to 2010
(Master thesis, 2011)Does forecast behavior differ in business cycles and periods of different monetary policy regimes? This paper explores private sector expert forecasts in Japan from 1989 to 2010 to answer this question. The case study ... -
Forecasting and trading in the crude tanker FFA market : forecasting and applying trading strategies on crude tanker forward freight agreements using neural networks and AIS-data
(Master thesis, 2020)The objective of this thesis is to forecast derivative prices of Forward Freight Agreements (FFAs) using machine learning techniques and investigate the profitability of implementing quantitative trading strategies. The ... -
Forecasting commodity prices with switching regimes : a MS-VAR approach for fish meal price
(Working paper, Working paper, 2003-07)The objective of this paper is to present a parsimonious forecasting model of the fish meal price. The focus is on the soybean meal market’s impact on the fish meal price together with the stocks-to-use as an indicator of ... -
Forecasting GDP growth : a comprehensive comparison of employing machine learning algorithms and time series regression models
(Master thesis, 2019)In this paper, we do a comprehensive comparison of forecasting Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth using Machine Learning algorithms and traditional time series regression models on the following economies: Australia, ... -
Forecasting German day-ahead electricity prices using multivariate time series models
(Master thesis, 2012)Using a newly available dataset about the unavailability of power plants and the in-feed of renewable energies to forecast day-ahead electricity prices at the German Power Exchange, this work shows that the predictive ... -
Forecasting Norwegian GDP : an empirical analysis of categorized macroeconomic data
(Master thesis, 2019)The topic of this master thesis is forecasting of Norwegian quarterly GDP growth. We aim to research whether a dataset of many variables can forecast Norwegian GDP growth accurate in the period 2014q2 to 2018q1, with ... -
Forecasting Norwegian inflation with deep neural networks : the application and comparison of different feedforward architectures
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis investigates the feasibility of applying deep neural networks to macroeconomic forecastingintheNorwegianeconomy. Thethesisisintendedformacroforecasterscuriousaboutthe possibility of utilizing these approaches ... -
Forecasting price spikes in day-ahead electricity markets: techniques, challenges, and the road ahead
(Discussion paper;1/24, Working paper, 2024-01-17)Due to the increase in renewable energy production and global socioeconomic turmoil, the volatility in electricity prices has considerably increased in recent years, leading to extreme positive and negative price spikes ... -
Forecasting the Fish Pool Index : Can tree-based models produce accurate and reliable forecasts of the salmon spot price?
(Master thesis, 2023)Industrial salmon farming is becoming an increasingly important industry, both globally and in Norway. One of the main risk factors in salmon production is the highly volatile spot price, so access to high-quality price ... -
Forecasting the Price of Aluminium Using Machine Learning : Empirical comparison of machine learning and statistical methods.
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis challenges statistical methods for forecasting aluminium's 3-month futures contract price with a machine learning technique. The goal is to find the superior model with a one-month horizon. The first model ... -
Foreclosure in contests
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-12)We consider a contest in which one firm is a favourite as it initially has a cost advantage over rivals. Instead of taking the set of rivals as given, we consider the possibility that the favourite transfers the source ... -
Foreign aid and domestic politics : implications for aid selectivity
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-06)The links between foreign aid and policies in developing countries have been at the forefront of the policy debate for decades. An emerging consensus touts aid selectivity as the solution to the failures of conditionality. ... -
Foreign aid and international public goods : incentives and strategic behavior
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-08)This paper considers a stylized model where a donor and a recipient government derive utility from a public good (for example consumption among the poor or defense capacity in the recipient country), in addition to a private ... -
Foreign aid and international public goods : incentives and strategic behavior
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-08)This paper considers a stylized model where a donor and a recipient government derive utility from a public good (for example consumption among the poor or defense capacity in the recipient country), in addition to a ... -
Foreign aid and social sector spending in developing countries
(Report, Research report, 2002)Foreign aid is of critical importance to achieving the international goal of providing basic social services to all mankind by 2015. If strategies for funding health and education are to be successful, understanding the ... -
Foreign aid and sovereign credit worthiness
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-12)International financial markets are far from perfect. Because of problems related to contract enforcement borrowers often end up being rationed; the lenders tend to constrain the amount lent ex ante in order to motivate ... -
Foreign direct investment : assessing the need for a multilateral agreement
(Report, Research report, 2002-06)Do we need a multilateral agreement for policies towards international investments similar to the trade agreements that exist? Foreign direct investments (FDI) play an important role in the international economy, and in ... -
Foreign direct investment and host-country effects
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-09)