• Transfer pricing and debt shifting in multinationals 

      Schindler, Dirk; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Discussion papers;22/14, Working paper, 2014-05)
      There is a growing concern that governments lose substantial corporate tax revenue due to transfer pricing and debt shifting strategies. Existing literature studies debt shifting and transfer pricing separately. In ...
    • Transition to Marine Mining? 

      Bang, Rasmus Noss; Trellevik, Lars-Kristian Lunde (Discussion paper;9/22, Working paper, 2022-03-04)
      This study explores possible futures of the mining industry through numerical analysis of a conceptual mineral extraction problem with two resource stocks - terrestrial and marine. The model is inspired by the manganese ...
    • Tre grupper skatteytere i søkelyset: Har de ulike kjennetegn? 

      Andersson, Jonas; Lillestøl, Jostein (Discussion paper;5/17, Working paper, 2017-03-31)
      Denne rapporten analyserer data for tre grupper av skatteytere som har vært i skatteetatens søkelys: Skatteytere som etter skatteamnesti har meldt seg frivillig med opplysninger om tidligere uoppgitt skattbar inntekt eller ...
    • Treating missing values in INAR(1) models 

      Andersson, Jonas; Karlis, Dimitris (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-07)
      Time series models for count data have found increased interest in recent days. The existing literature refers to the case of data that have been fully observed. In the present paper, methods for estimating the parameters ...
    • Treating missing values in INAR(1) models: An application to syndromic surveillance data 

      Andersson, Jonas; Karlis, Dimitris (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Time-series models for count data have found increased interest in recent years. The existing literature refers to the case of data that have been fully observed. In this article, methods for estimating the parameters of ...
    • The Triple Difference Estimator 

      Olden, Andreas; Møen, Jarle (Discussion paper;1/20, Working paper, 2020-04-22)
      Triple difference has become a widely used estimator in empirical work. A close reading of articles in top economics journals reveals that the use of the estimator to a large extent rests on intuition. The identifying ...
    • Two paradigms and Nobel prizes in economics : a contradiction or coexistence? 

      Levy, Haim; De Giorgi, Enrico; Hens, Thorsten (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-06)
      Markowitz and Sharpe won the Nobel Prize in Economics more than a decade ago for the development of Mean-Variance analysis and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). In the year 2002, Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in ...
    • A two sample size estimator for large data sets 

      O’Connell, Martin; Smith, Howard; Thomassen, Øyvind (Discussion paper;1/23, Working paper, 2023-02-17)
      In GMM estimators moment conditions with additive error terms involve an observed component and a predicted component. If the predicted component is computationally costly to evaluate, it may not be feasible to estimate ...
    • Uncertainty modeling and spatial positioning in tramp shipping 

      Procházka, Vit (Doctoral thesis, 2018-11)
    • Uncovering preferences from patient list data using benefit efficient models 

      Ubøe, Jan; Lillestøl, Jostein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      In this paper it is shown how the benefit efficient patient list model of Ubøe and Lillestøl [1] can be used to infer strength of preferences from patient list data. It is proved that the model allows the construction of ...
    • Underrapportering av inntekt blant selvstendig næringsdrivende - Et utgiftsbasert estimat 

      Skjeggestad, Stine Opshaug; Wæhle, Sara (Master thesis, 2015)
      I denne masterutredningen undersøker vi graden av underrapportering av inntekt i Norge fra 1975 til 2012 blant selvstendig næringsdrivende. Analysene bygger på en utgiftsbasert estimeringsmetode, utviklet av Pissarides ...
    • Understanding the marginal distributions and correlations of link travel speeds in road networks 

      Guo, Feng; Gu, Xin; Guo, Zhaoxia; Dong, Yucheng; Wallace, Stein William (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Link travel speeds in road networks are essential data for a variety of research problems in logistics, transportation, and traffic management. Real-world link travel speeds are stochastic, and highly dependent on speeds ...
    • Unraveling Coordination Problems 

      Heijmans, Roweno J.R.K. (Discussion paper;20/23, Working paper, 2023-11-09)
      The interplay between strategic beliefs and policy complicates policy design in coordination games. To untangle this relationship, we study policy design in the context of equilibrium selection. We characterize the unique ...
    • Using bank mergers and acquisitions to understand lending relationships 

      Hetland, Ove Rein; Mjøs, Aksel (Discussion paper;2011:13, Working paper, 2011-08)
      We study how firm-bank lending relationships affect firms' access to and terms of credit. We use bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) as exogenous events that affect lending relationships. Bank M&As lead to organisational ...
    • Using lagrangean relaxation to minimize the (weighted) number of late jobs on a single machine 

      Dauzère-Pérès, Stéphane; Sevaux, Marc (Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-06)
      This paper tackles the general single machine scheduling problem, where jobs have different release and due dates and the objective is to minimize the weighted number of late jobs. The notion of master sequence is first ...
    • Using machine learning to predict patent lawsuits 

      Juranek, Steffen; Otneim, Håkon (Discussion paper;6/21, Working paper, 2021-06-22)
      We use machine learning methods to predict which patents end up at court using the population of US patents granted between 2002 and 2005. We analyze the role of the different dimensions of an empirical analysis for the ...
    • Using option pricing theory to infer about equity premiums 

      Aase, Knut K. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-11)
      In this paper we make use of option pricing theory to infer about historical equity premiums. This we do by comparing the prices of an American perpetual put option computed using two different models: The first is the ...
    • Utbyttepolitikk i utenlandskeide aksjeselskaper i Norge : en empirisk studie av effekten av skattereformen 2004-2006 

      Reiersgård, Ingeborg Andersen; Røtvold, Anita (Master thesis, 2012)
      Denne oppgaven studerer utbyttepolitikk i norske, utenlandskeide aksjeselskaper. Skattereformen 2004-2006 førte til fritak for kildeskatt på utbytte for selskapsaksjonærer fra EØS i norske aksjeselskaper. Det er derfor ...
    • Utenlandsk formue skjult i eiendomsmarkedet : en case-studie av Storbritannia og USA 

      Wiig, Olav Salte (Master thesis, 2015)
      Formålet med denne utredningen er å gi bedre innsikt i personlig formue som holdes skjult i skatteparadis. Utredningen belyser hvordan superrike utlendinger benytter seg av virkemidler for å holde sin identitet og formue ...