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On the importance of openness for industrial policy design in developing countries
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)How should industrial policy be designed in developing countries? Should industrial policy be targeted to a few sectors or be more broad based and therefore more neutral? Our theoretical analysis demonstrates that access ... -
On the importance of sequencing decisions in production planning and scheduling
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-06)We discuss the traditional hierarchical approach to production planning and scheduling, emphasizing the fact that scheduling constraints are often either ignored or considered in a very crude way. In particular, we point ... -
On the location of economic and academic activity
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On the micro-foundations of money : the Capitol Hill baby-sitting co-op
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-10)This paper contributes to the micro-foundation of money in centralized markets with idiosyncratic uncertainty. It shows existence of stationary monetary equilibria and ensures that there is an optimum quantity of money. ... -
On the modelling of the public sector in a Walrasian general equilibrium
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On the nature and sources of normativity: Normativity as grounded in affective human nature
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-06)The overall aim of this project is to explore the foundations of human morality, or what is often referred to more formally as “ethics”. Consistent with widely accepted terminology in philosophy, I deploy the notion of ... -
On the perils of stabilizing prices when agents are learning
(Discussion paper;01/15, Working paper, 2015-01)We show that price level stabilization is not optimal in an economy where agents have incomplete knowledge about the policy implemented and try to learn it. A systematically more accommodative policy than what agents expect ... -
On the perils of stabilizing prices when agents are learning
(DP SAM;22/2018, Working paper, 2018)The main advantage of price level stabilization compared with in ation stabilization rests on the central bank's ability to shape expectations. We show that stabilizing prices is no longer optimal when the central bank ... -
On the political economy of resource rents in polarized societies
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)The present paper analyses how resource rents may affect political outcomes in a polarized society, where groups hold conflicting views on economic policy. A politically dominant group decides whether or not to include ... -
On the possibility of Paretian egalitarianism
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-07)Paretian egalitarianism holds that equality should be promoted, but only when this does not conflict with certain (Pareto) efficiency considerations. Like leximin, it has the attractive feature of never favoring leveling ... -
On the pricing of performance sensitive debt
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On the profitability of cross-border mergers
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)A horizontal merger is unlikely to be profitable unless it involves the large majority of firms in an industry. This well established result was developed by Salant et al (1983) in a closed economy setting. The present ... -
On the relationship between aquaculture and reduction fisheries
(Working paper, Working paper; Working paper, 2000-09)Traditional aquaculture has to a large extent used herbivore species with limited requirements for additional feeding. However, in intensive aquaculture production one farm carnivore species like salmon and also feeds ... -
On the relevance of jumps for the pricing of S&P 500 options : with particular emphasis on the adjustment for systematic risk in jump-diffusion models
(Master thesis, 2013)Jump-diffusions are a class of models that is used to model the price dynamics of assets whose value exhibit jumps. The first part of this thesis discusses the implications of such models for the pricing of derivatives. ... -
On the significance of pre-existing distortions for the costs of environmental regulation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-05)Recently, several papers have shown that environmental taxes are more costly in an economy with preexisting distortions than in an undistorted economy. This result applies for equal percent reductions from different ... -
On the verge of re-entry: readjustment of labour and the optimal policy towards a postpetroleum Norwegian economy
(Master thesis, 2015)Abstract This thesis examines the petroleum effect in the Norwegian sectoral composition of labour and the consequential effect for a forthcoming re-entry process to a post-petroleum economy. The objective of the thesis ... -
On the workings of a cartel : evidence from the Norwegian cement industry
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-06)Using the institutional set-up of the Norwegian cement industry, in particular its sharing rule, we are able to identify the workings of a cartel in some detail. We focus on the two problems that any cartel faces: deciding ... -
On the workings of a cartel : evidence from the Norwegian cement industry
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2005)Using the institutional set-up of the Norwegian cement industry, in particular its sharing rule, we are able to identify the workings of a cartel in some detail. Given data on prices, production, and exports, we are able ... -
On the workings of a cartel : evidence from the Norwegian cement industry
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003)Using the institutional set-up of the Norwegian cement industry, in particular its sharing rule, we are able to identify the workings of a cartel in some detail. Given data on prices, production, and exports, we are able ... -
On uncertainty and investment rates : with empirical analysis of developed economies
(Master thesis, 2009)This thesis investigates the impact of uncertainty on investment rates. The theoretical and empirical literature on the subject is surveyed before I do an empirical analysis on investment data for 14 developed economies ...