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Cost-benefit analysis and the democratic ideal
(Discussion Papers;No. 205, Working paper, 1997)In traditional cost-benefit analyses of public projects, every citizen’s willingness to pay for a project is given an equal weight. This is sometimes taken to imply that cost-benefit analysis is a democratic method for ... -
Cost-effective environmental policy: Implications of induced technological change
(Discussion Papers;No. 314, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: Cost-effective environmental policy generally requires that all emission sources are faced with the same tax. In this paper I discuss how the existence of induced technological change may alter this result, if ... -
Counterintuitive response to tax incentives? Mortgage interest deductions and the demand for debt
(Discussion Papers;No. 492, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: A number of European countries changed their tax system in the early 1990s along the lines of the US tax reform act of 1986. After the reforms marginal tax rates were generally lower, and mortgage interest ... -
Criminometrics, latent variables, panel data, and different types of crime
(Discussion Papers;No. 124, Working paper, 1994)A behavioural model of crime is developed and applied to panel data on the number of crimes and clear-ups for the 53 police districts in Norway for the period 1970-78. Data on both total crime and on 12 different types of ... -
Decomposition of rank-dependent measures of inequality by subgroups
(Discussion Papers;No. 437, Working paper, 2005)The purpose of additive subgroup decomposition is to study the relationship between overall inequality and inequality within and between population subgroups defined by variables like gender, age, education and region ... -
Demand and supply of labor by education towards 2030. Linking demographic and macroeconomic models for Norway
(Rapporter;2010/39, Report, 2010)Because of globalization and technological progress, most OECD-countries have seen a considerable growth in the demand for labor with higher skills and educational levels the past decades. In many countries, supply has ... -
Deregulation of electricity markets—The Norwegian experience
(Discussion Papers;No. 433, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: In this paper, we describe the approach to, and experience of, the deregulation and liberalisation of the Norwegian electricity sector from 1991. The Norwegian electricity market was subsequently integrated ... -
Designing an electricity tax system in presence of international regulations and multiple public goals : an empirical assessment
(Discussion Papers;No. 555, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: The European competition rules restrict governments’ opportunity to differentiate terms of energy accessibility among firms and industries. This easily runs counter with regional and industrial goals of national ... -
Designing optimal taxes with a microeconometric model of household labour supply
(Discussion Papers;No. 475, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present an exercise where we identify optimal income tax rules under the constraint of fixed tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 parameters that ... -
Determinants of long-term interest rates in the Scandinavian countries
(Discussion Papers;No. 469, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: The financial markets in a small open economy like the Scandinavian countries are influenced by international economic developments, especially in their major trading partners. This paper investigates to which ... -
Developing economies and international investors. Do investment promotion agencies bring them together?
(Discussion Papers;No. 513, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: Many countries spend significant resources on investment promotion agencies (IPAs) in the hope of attracting inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). Despite the importance of this question for public policy ... -
Did Norway gain from the 1979-85 oil price shock?
(Discussion Papers;No. 210, Working paper, 1998)Macroeconomic effects of the high oil prices in the period 1979-85 for the Norwegian economy are considered. An alternative low oil price scenario is developed and effects of the oil shock are calculated as the deviation ... -
Differences in Learning and Inequality
(Discussion Papers;No. 457, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: Rapid growth in productivity combined with increasing wage dispersion in some countries, notably Anglo-Saxon, has been the subject of numerous studies. The main hypothesis in the literature is that an increased ... -
Direct load control of residential water heaters
(Discussion Papers;No. 479, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: In Norway there is a growing concern that electricity production and transmission may not meet the demand in peak-load situations. It is therefore important to evaluate the potential of different demand side ... -
Discrimination in Europe : evidence from the rental market
(Discussion Papers;No. 547, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: This paper considers statistical discrimination in rental markets, using a rich data set on rental contracts from Norway. We find that tenants born abroad pay a statistically significant and economically important ... -
Distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies
(Discussion Papers;No. 135, Working paper, 1995)A methodology to describe the distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies is presented within a micro simulation framework. We discuss the effects of changing the governmental policy to support families ... -
Distributional and environmental effects of taxes on transportation
(Discussion Papers;No. 321, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: This article studies environmental and distributional effects from a differentiated tax system on a set of disaggregated transportation goods. Empirical examination on Norwegian data indicates that higher tax ... -
Distributional effects of environmental taxes on transportation. Evidence from engel curves in the United States
(Discussion Papers;No. 428, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: Indirect taxes on transportation activities that pollute can correct externalities and close the gaps between private and social costs. However, policy makers often find such Pigou taxes difficult to implement ... -
The Distributional impact of public services when needs differ
(Discussion Papers;No. 621, Working paper, 2010)Abstract: Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects ... -
Do environmental regulations hamper productivity growth? How accounting for improvements of firms' environmental performance can change the conclusion
(Discussion Papers;No. 374, Working paper, 2004)Abstract: Many economists maintain that environmental regulations hamper productivity growth. However, recently, an opposing view has gained advocates. Indeed, it has been suggested that the empirically detected inverse ...