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Some reflections on the role of moral reasoning in economics
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-11)People seem to be motivated by moral ideas and in this paper I discuss how we should take this into account in positive and normative economics. I review alternative ways of modelling moral motivation and reasoning in ... -
Some reflections on the role of moral reasoning in economics
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003)People seem to be motivated by moral ideas and in this paper I discuss how we should take this into account in positive and normative economics. I review alternative ways of modelling moral motivation and reasoning in ... -
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 ... -
Sources of measurement errors in earnings data : new estimates of intergenerational elasticities
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)Using Norwegian intergenerational data with a substantial part of the life-cycle earnings of children and almost the entire life-cycle earnings for their fathers, we present new estimates of intergenerational mobility. ... -
Spatial Data Analysis with R-INLA with Some Extensions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-01)The integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) provides an interesting way of approximating the posterior marginals of a wide range of Bayesian hierarchical models. This approximation is based on conducting a Laplace ... -
Spatial diffusion and spatial statistics: revisting Hägerstrand’s study of innovation diffusion.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Torsten Hägerstrand’s 1953 study of innovation diffusion [1] was pathbreaking in many ways. It was based on an explicit micro-model of information spread, and on Monte Carlo simulation of the hypothesised spatial process. ... -
Spatial management of a fishery under parameter uncertainty
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-06)Spatial management of a fishery under parameter uncertainty is analyzed. The habitat is divided into two areas, and the effort level in the two areas may be different. The migration of biomass between the areas follows a ... -
Spillovers from household production to wage and profit formation
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Spillovers from US monetary policy: evidence from a time varying parameter global vector auto-regressive model
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The paper develops a global vector auto-regressive model with time varying parameters and stochastic volatility to analyse whether international spillovers of US monetary policy have changed over time. The model proposed ... -
Spillovers from US monetary policy: Evidence from a time-varying parameter GVAR model
(DP SAM;31/2018, Working paper, 2018-12-21)This paper develops a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility to analyze whether international spillovers of US monetary policy have changed over time. The proposed ... -
Sticks and carrots for the alleviation of long-term poverty
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)Work requirements can make it easier to screen the poor from the nonpoor. They can also affect future poverty by changing the poors’ incentive to invest in their income capacity. The novelty of our study is the focus ... -
Strategic bank monitoring and firms’ debt structure
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-10)Firms choose debt structure and competing banks choose monitoring intensity. Monitoring improves credit allocation, but creates informational lock-in effects in bank-borrower relationships. In a competitive credit market, ... -
Strategic investments with spillovers, vertical integration and foreclosure in the broadband access market
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-06)We analyse competition between two firms (ISPs) in the retail market for broadband access. One of the firms is vertically integrated and controls the input market for local access. The vertically integrated firm undertakes ... -
Strategy and hegemony in chemical tanker shipping, 1960-1985
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)The article analyses the emergence of chemical shipping as a specialized shipping segment. In the 1950s and 1960s seaborne transport of chemicals was characterized by rapid technological development. This was based on ... -
Strictly for the birds? On ecosystem services of forage fish
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Small pelagic fish like sardine, anchovy and herring feed on zooplankton and are in turn prey for fish higher up in the food chain. They are therefore expected to play a vital role in transfer of energy between levels ... -
Striking the balance : economics and the environment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-10)The environment has many of the properties that economists associate with the concept of a public good. It has long been realized that, if left to itself, the market economy is likely to lead to an undersupply of public ... -
Studier i konkurranse- og energipolitikk
(Book, 2017-05)I denne antologien har jeg samlet et utvalg skriftlige arbeider, blant i alt i overkant av hundre med smått og stort, som jeg har forfattet i perioden 2004 – 2016; noen sammen med andre. I utvalget har jeg lagt vekt på ... -
Sunk export costs. How they influence firms’ export decisions and international trade
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Sustainable recursive social welfare functions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)What ethical criterion for intergenerational justice should be adopted, e.g., when faced with the task of managing the global environment? Koopmans’ axiomatization of discounted utilitarianism is based on seemingly compelling ... -
Sustainable recursive social welfare functions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)What ethical criterion for intergenerational justice should be adopted, e.g., when faced with the task of managing the global environment? Koopmans’ axiomatization of discounted utilitarianism is based on seemingly compelling ...