• Politikk på politikk – derfor koster klimapolitikken 

      Bye, Brita; Fæhn, Taran; Kaushal, Kevin R.; Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid; Yonezawa, Hidemichi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Norge har ambisiøse mål i klimapolitikken for ikke-kvotepliktig sektor. Kuttene kan gjennomføres billigst mulig ved å stille alle utslippskildene overfor samme utslippspris. Imidlertid oppstår en stor del av de samfunnsøkonomiske ...
    • Ponderous, Proficient or Professional? Survey experience and smartphone effects in stated preference research 

      Sandorf, Erlend Dancke; Grimsrud, Kristine; Lindhjem, Henrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)
      New parenthood causes large decreases in labor market incomes for mothers but not fathers, a stylized fact known as the “child penalty.” We combine a simple household model with estimates of child penalties in heterosexual ...
    • Portfolio choices, firm shocks, and uninsurable wage risk 

      Fagereng, Andreas; Guiso, Luigi; Pistaferri, Luigi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-04-06)
      Assessing the importance of uninsurable wage risk for individual financial choices faces two challenges. First, the identification of the marginal effect requires a measure of at least one component of risk that cannot be ...
    • Potential demand for alternative fuel vehicles 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Wennemo, Tom; Wetterwald, Dag; Aaberge, Rolf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2002)
      This paper analyzes the potential demand for alternative fuel vehicles. The alternative fuel vehicles we consider are liquid propane gas and electric powered vehicles in addition to dual-fuel vehicles. The data were obtained ...
    • Predicting poverty trends by survey-to-survey imputation: The challenge of comparability 

      Mathiassen, Astrid; Wold, Bjørn K. Getz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Poverty in low-income countries is usually measured using large and infrequent household consumption surveys. The challenge is to find methods to measure poverty rates more frequently. This study validates a survey-to-survey ...
    • Predicting the path of labor supply responses when state dependence matters. 

      Vattø, Trine Engh; Jia, Zhiyang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The standard labor supply model ignores possible inertia originating from individuals’ previous labor supply decisions and assumes immediate adjustments to policy reforms. In this study we develop a model where past labor ...
    • En presentasjon av MODAG-modellens struktur og egenskaper 

      Cappelen, Ådne; Moum, Knut (Journal article, 1987)
      På slutten av 1970-tallet arbeidet en i forskningsavdelingen i Statistisk sentralbyrå parallelt med tre modellprosjekt; kvartsmodellen KVARTS, årsmodellen MODAG og likevektsmodellen MSG-4. Bakgrunnen for MODAG-modellene ...
    • Problematic response margins in the estimation of the elasticity of taxable income 

      Berg, Kristoffer; Thoresen, Thor Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10-30)
      The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) holds the promise of representing a summary measure of tax efciency costs, which means that further information about the behavioral components of the ETI is not required for its use ...
    • 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 ...
    • Public acceptance and willingness to pay cost-effective taxes on red meat and city traffic in Norway 

      Grimsrud, Kristine; Lindhjem, Henrik; Sem, Ingvild Vestre; Rosendahl, Knut Einar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      The Norwegian Green Tax Commission proposes inter alia cost-effective taxes on red meat and city traffic to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution. Implementation requires public support, but the acceptance ...
    • Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis 

      Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Iancu, Diana-Cristina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      We analyse all the major sources of direct and indirect research and development (R&D) support to the business enterprise sector in a single country, Norway, for the period 2002–2013, treating the financial support for R&D ...
    • Quality Issues at Statistics Norway 

      Sæbø, Hans Viggo; Byfuglien, Jan; Johannessen, Randi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2003)
      Statistics Norway has like other National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) worked with quality for many years, but we have now started a systematic approach, inspired by the TQM principles and the work on this in several NSIs. ...
    • Ranking intersecting distribution functions 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Second-degree dominance has become a widely accepted criterion for ordering distribution functions according to social welfare. However, it provides only a partial ordering, and it may fail to rank distributions that ...
    • Ranking intersecting Lorenz curves 

      Aaberge, Rolf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)
      This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree ...
    • Rasjonalitet i jerntriangelet : rapport fra et tallspill 

      Nyborg, Karine; Støstad, Jan-Erik; Svendsen, Ingvild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2001)
      Vi har spilt et uhøytidelig tallspill i tre sentrale norske økonom-miljøer: Finansdepartementet, Norges Bank og Statistisk sentralbyrå. Bare 16 prosent av deltakerne avga et svar som var konsistent med spillets Nash-likevekt. ...
    • Rask solnedgang for norsk olje og gass i en verden der 1,5 ºC-målet nås? 

      Lindholt, Lars (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-11)
      Norge har sluttet seg til Parisavtalen og 1,5 ºC-målet, som innebærer at verden må nå netto null utslipp av CO2 innen midten av dette århundret. Norsk økonomi lener seg fortsatt tungt på olje- og gassinntekter med et ...
    • Refunding emission payments: Output-based versus expenditure-based refunding 

      Hagem, Cathrine; Hoel, Michael; Sterner, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      We analyse two mechanism designs for refunding emission payments to polluting firms: output-based refunding (OBR) and expenditure-based refunding (EBR). In both instruments, emission fees are returned to the polluting ...
    • Region-specific versus country-specific poverty lines in analysis of poverty 

      Mogstad, Magne; Langørgen, Audun; Aaberge, Rolf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)
      The standard practice in most OECD countries is to identify the poor on the basis of a country-specific poverty line defined as a fraction of the median equivalent income. However, this approach disregards regional differences ...
    • Regional variation in health care utilization and mortality 

      Godøy, Anna Aasen; Huitfeldt, Ingrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-02-19)
      Geographic variation in health care utilization has raised concerns of possible inefficiencies in health care supply, as differences are often not reflected in health outcomes. Using comprehensive Norwegian microdata, we ...
    • Rekordsterk oppgang i norsk økonomi 

      Johansen, Per Richard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)
      Vi er nå inne i det fjerde året med klar konjunkturoppgang i norsk økonomi. I denne fireårsperioden ligger det an til at veksten i privat sektor utenom oljevirksomheten vil være den høyeste på over 40 år, ja kanskje vi ...