• COVID-19, tapt verdiskaping og finanspolitikkens rolle. Utredning for Koronakommisjonen 

      von Brasch, Thomas; Cappelen, Ådne; Holden, Steinar; Lindstrøm, Eirik Larsen; Skretting, Julia (Rapporter;2022/15, Report, 2022-04)
      I denne rapporten sammenligner vi verdiskapingen i en referansebane for perioden 2020-2023 slik den ser ut i skrivende stund – ved månedsskiftet januar/februar 2022 – med SSBs prognose for norsk økonomi publisert i slutten ...
    • Fiscal policy, macroeconomic performance and industry structure in a small open economy 

      Boug, Pål; von Brasch, Thomas; Cappelen, Ådne; Hammersland, Roger; Hungnes, Håvard; Kolsrud, Dag; Skretting, Julia; Strøm, Birger; Vigtel, Trond Christian (Discussion Paper;No. 984, Working paper, 2022-07)
      We analyse how fiscal policy affects both the macroeconomy and the industry structure, using a multi-sector macroeconomic model of the Norwegian economy with an inflation targeting monetary policy. Our simulations show ...
    • Identifying the sector bias of technical change 

      von Brasch, Thomas (Discussion papers;795, Working paper, 2015-01)
      The empirical literature studying the sector bias of technical change has only focused on skill-biased technical change. In this paper, I analyse the sector bias of both factor-neutral and factor-biased technical change. ...
    • Modeling R&D spillovers to productivity: The effects of tax credits 

      von Brasch, Thomas; Cappelen, Ådne; Hungnes, Håvard; Skjerpen, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      How much stimuli that should be attributed to R&D investments crucially depends on how the benefits of R&D reverberate throughout the economy. An extensive literature has found major spillover effects from R&D investments ...
    • Productivity Dispersion and Measurement Error 

      von Brasch, Thomas; Iancu, Diana-Cristina; Skjerpen, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11-11)
      Several reasons have been put forward to explain the high dispersion of productivity across establishments: quality of management, different input usage and market distortions, to name but a few. Although it is acknowledged ...
    • The cost-of-living index with trade barriers. Theory and evidence 

      von Brasch, Thomas (Discussion papers;751, Working paper, 2013-09)
      The standard cost-of-living index hinges on the assumption that there is free trade. Applying it to situations where trade barriers are present yields biased results with respect to a true cost-of-living index. Import price ...
    • The impact of new varieties on aggregate productivity growth* 

      von Brasch, Thomas; Raknerud, Arvid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Although there is an extensive body of literature on aggregate productivity growth, reallocation, and firm turnover, the contribution to overall productivity growth from new firms that produce new varieties is not well ...
    • The Norwegian productivity puzzle - not so puzzling after all? 

      von Brasch, Thomas (Discussion papers;796, Working paper, 2015-02)
      The Norwegian productivity puzzle is rooted in three seemingly contradictory “facts”: First, Norway is one of the most productive OECD countries. Second, Norway has experienced high growth in productivity. Third, Norway ...