Articles (SAM): Recent submissions
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Trade crisis? What trade crisis?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)We investigate the 2008–2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. Belgian exports and imports mostly fell because of smaller quantities sold and unit prices charged rather than fewer firms, ... -
Comparing Implementations of Estimation Methods for Spatial Econometrics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-01)Recent advances in the implementation of spatial econometrics model estimation tech- niques have made it desirable to compare results, which should correspond between im- plementations across software applications for ... -
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 ... -
Software for Spatial Statistics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)We give an overview of the papers published in this special issue on spatial statistics, of the Journal of Statistical Software. 21 papers address issues covering visualization (micromaps, links to Google Maps or Google ... -
An evasive topic: theorizing about the hidden economy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)This paper reviews some central issues that arise in theorizing about tax evasion decisions and the hidden economy. It starts from the Allingham-Sandmo (1972) modelling of the tax evasion decision as a choice under ... -
Sequential exporting
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Many new exporters give up exporting very shortly, despite substantial entry costs; others shoot up foreign sales and expand to new destinations. We develop a model based on experimentation to rationalize these and other ... -
Hvordan påvirker redusert skjenketid omsetningen i utelivsbransjen? Nettrapport
(Forskningsrapport;2012, Research report, 2012)Denne rapporten analyserer i hvor stor grad en reduks j on i skjenketide n påvirker omsetningen i utelivsbransjen. I Norge er det en nasjonalt beste mt maksimal skjenketid fram til kl 03.00 alle dager, men ... -
A Long Term View on the Short Term Co-movement of Output and Prices in a Small Open Economy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-02)One assumption behind inflation targeting as objective for monetary policy is that inflation rates in the short run to some extent reflect output cycles. The present paper investigates the historical co-movements of output ... -
After "Raising the Bar'': applied maximum likelihood estimation of families of models in spatial econometrics.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Elhorst (2010) shows how the recent publication of LeSage and Pace (2009) in his expression “raises the bar” for our fitting of spatial econometrics models. By extending the family of models that deserve attention, Elhorst ... -
Business Training in Tanzania: From Research-driven Experiment to Local Implementation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Field experiments documenting positive treatment effects have a strong policy message: scale up! However, such experiments are typically implemented under close supervision of the research group in charge of the study. In ... -
Adjusting for age effects in cross-sectional distributions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Income and wealth differ over the life cycle. In cross-sectional distri- butions of income or wealth, classical inequality measures such as the Gini, could therefore find substantial inequality even if everyone have the ... -
International Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food
(Journal article, 2012)Purchasing power-adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. This paper estimates the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provides corrected incomes. The ... -
Norway's experience with ITQs: A rejoinder
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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 ... -
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Entrepreneurship of the Norwegian Puritan Leader Hans Nielsen Hauge.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)The present paper deals with Max Webers hypothesis on the linkage between protestant ethics and the development of capitalism and entreprenaurship. It does so by study industrial entrepreneurship the great Norwegian puritan ... -
Optimal labor income taxation under maximin : an upper bound
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)This paper compares marginal income tax rates for the maximin versus a welfarist criterion in the standard Mirleesian optimal income tax problem. It derives fairly mild conditions under which the former is higher than the ... -
A long term view on the short term co-movement of output and prices in a small open economy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-02)One assumption behind inflation targeting as objective for monetary policy is that inflation rates in the short run to some extent reflect output cycles. The present paper investigates the historical co-movements of output ... -
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 ... -
Baby booming inequality? Demographic change and earnings inequality in Norway, 1967–2000
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age-structure. To this end, we use administrative data on ...