Blar i Department of Economics på utgivelsesdato
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Some implications and tests of the permanent-income hypothesis and rational consumer behaviour
(Doctoral thesis, 1997) -
Industrial agglomeration and capital taxation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-07)Models with imperfect competition and intra-industry trade have become widely accepted as appropriate frameworks within which to analyze the impact of trade liberalization on industrial agglomeration. This paper makes ... -
International competition for multinational investment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-08)We examine the economic justification for providing investment subsidies to foreign-owned multinationals. These provide employment opportunities and generate demand for domestic intermediate inputs, produced by domestic ... -
Sources of earnings dispersion in a linked employer-employee dataset : evidence from Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-09)We estimate a standard human capital earnings model, augmented to allow for different firmspecific wage premia. The earnings of an individual depend on her human capital bundle and the earnings mark-up of the firm she ... -
Collude, compete, or both? : deregulation in the Norwegian airline industry
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-10)The purpose of this paper is to test the nature of competition concerning price and capacity setting in the Norwegian airline industry after the deregulation in 1994. Did the two airlines, SAS and Braathens, compete on ... -
Trade and development : is south-south co-operation a feasible strategy?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-10)The first part of this article gives a brief overview of the main problems facing the developing countries in the present international trading system, and reviews the debate on import substitution vs. export promotion. ... -
What determines the economic geography of Europe?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-10)This paper focuses on what the driving forces behind industry localisation in Europe are. Based on traditional as well as new trade theory and new economic geography our cross-sectoral empirical analysis seeks to explain ... -
Poverty measurement : the critical comparison value
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-11)The basic problem in poverty measurement is how to weigh the income of different groups. This is a normative problem on which people differ in opinion, and hence we should seek a way of dealing with the issue that takes ... -
The indexing impasse : is "the intersection approach" a solution?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-11)Rawls (1971,1993) suggests that interpersonal comparisons of well-being should be based on a primary goods index, but it is well-known that in general this approach is not compatible with the Pareto principle. This is ... -
Firm exit, vintage effect and the business cycle in Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-12)In spite of the large and growing literature on producer heterogeneity and firm exit behavior, little attention has been paid to the vintage capital theory of firm exits as an alternative hypothesis to learning/selection. ... -
Work requirements and long term poverty
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999)We study how work requirements can be used to target transfers to the long term poor. Without commitment, time consistency requires all screening measures to be concentrated in the first phase of the program. We show ... -
Asymmetric Information and Public Economics: The Mirrlees-Vickrey Nobel Prize
(Journal article, 1999) -
Employment policies at the plant level : job and worker flows for heterogeneous labour in Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-03)Despite the large degree of plant-specific heterogeneity in turnover patterns recently found in the gross job and worker literature, very little is known about the sources of the heterogeneity in plant level employment policies. ... -
Towards a competitive society? : the promotion of competition as a goal of economic policy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-04)This paper discusses the problems involved in considering competition policy as a separate area of economic policy. Two problems are given special attention. The first is the doubtful efficiency gain from enforcing ... -
Competing for capital in a "lumpy" world
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-04) -
Integration and transition : scenarios for location of production and trade in Europe
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-05)Applying a newly developed CGE-model, we present scenarios for the future economic geography of Europe. The model divides the world into ten regions, of which five are European, and there are 14 industries, of which 12 ... -
A U-shaped Europe? : a simulation study of industrial location
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-09)This paper uses a full-scale CGE-model - calibrated on 1992 data - to investigate the effects of European integration on the location of industrial production. Our results reveal large differences among individual ... -
Redistribution in a divided world
(Doctoral thesis, 2000) -
EU integration and outsiders : a simulation study of industrial location
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-02)This paper focuses on the location effects of preferential trade areas (PTA) on non-members. More specifically, using a CGE model calibrated to real data, it focuses on the impact of tighter European integration on ...