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    • Internal labor markets: A worker flow approach 

      Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Nimczik, Jan; Weber, Andrea (Discussion Paper;No. 961, Working paper, 2021-08)
      This paper develops a new method to study how workers’ career and wage profiles are shaped by internal labor markets (ILM) and job hierarchies in firms. Our paper tackles the conceptual challenge of organizing jobs within ...

    • Internalizing negative environmental impacts from wind power production: Coasian bargaining, offsetting schemes and environmental taxes 

      Greaker, Mads; Hagem, Cathrine; Skulstad, Andreas (Discussion Paper;No. 994, Working paper, 2022-12)
      On the one hand, wind power production is necessary for decarbonizing the electricity sector. On the other hand, we risk replacing one environmental problem with other environmental problems, that is, stopping climate ...

    • International emissions trading in a non-cooperative equilibrium 

      Holtsmark, Bjart; Sommervoll, Dag Einar (Discussion Papers;No. 542, Working paper, 2008)
      Abstract: Linkage of different countries’ domestic permit markets for pollution rights into a single international market alters governments’ incentives, and may trigger adjustments of the number of allocated permits. ...

    • International emissions trading in a noncooperative climate policy game 

      Holtsmark, Bjart; Sommervoll, Dag Einar (Discussion papers;693, Working paper, 2012-06)
      Using a non cooperative climate policy game applied in the literature, we find that an agreement with international emissions trading leads to increased emissions and reduced efficiency.

    • International emissions trading with endogenous taxes 

      Godal, Odd; Holtsmark, Bjart (Discussion Papers;No. 626, Working paper, 2010)
      Abstract: Motivated by the climate problem, this paper examines some effects of international cap & trade when national quotas result from strategic choice. In contrast to the fairly optimistic tone of closely related ...

    • Intertemporal discrete choice, random tastes and functional form 

      Dagsvik, John K. (Discussion Paper;No. 77, Working paper, 1992-11)
      An important problem in the analysis of intertemporal choice processes is to separate the effect of unobserved temporal persistent variables from the influence on preferences from past choice behavior (state dependence). ...

    • Investment and Financial Constraints. An Empirical Analysis of Norwegian Firms 

      Johansen, Frode (Discussion papers;109, Working paper, 1994-02)
      This paper investigates the relationship between a firm's investment decision and its financial situation. We present a model of investment, where the cost of external finance is increasing in the debt ratio. The model is ...

    • The investment and financing decisions of closely held firms when there is a tax on the equity premium 

      Fjærli, Erik; Raknerud, Arvid (Discussion Papers;594, Working paper, 2009)
      This paper analyzes a tax system where personal share income in excess of the risk-free return on equity (the equity premium) is taxed. The rate of return allowance (RRA) in the Norwegian shareholder income tax system is, ...

    • Investment booms in an oil economy - the Norwegian case 

      Berger, Kjell; Cappelen, Ådne; Svendsen, Ingvild (Discussion Paper;No. 29, Working paper, 1988-02)
      This paper discuss medium term effects on the Norwegian economy of alternative investment profiles in the petroleum sector. Following a brief discussion of the relevance of theories of optimal extraction we present three ...

    • Is Norway immune to Dutch Disease? CGE estimates of sustainable wage growth and de-industrialisation 

      Holmøy, Erling; Heide, Kim Massey (Discussion Papers;No. 413, Working paper, 2005)
      Norway's petroleum wealth has become considerably more liquid and thereby visible to the public since the mid 1990s. In the policy debate transformation of wealth is often confused with ordinary income. Such a misconception ...

    • Is price equal to marginal costs? - An integrated study of price-cost margins and scale economies among Norwegian manufacturing establishments 1975-90 

      Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion Paper;No. 93, Working paper, 1993-07)
      This paper presents an integrated study of price-cost margins and scale economies. The model is estimated on the basis of a comprehensive data set for individual establishments covering almost the whole Norwegian manufacturing ...

    • Is the distribution of income compatible with s stable distribution? 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Vatne, Bjørn Helge (Discussion Papers;No. 246, Working paper, 1999)
      Mandelbrot (1961) proposed to apply the class of Pareto-Levy distributions - which belong to the Stable distributions - as a framework for modelling income distributions. He also presented theoretic arguments in favor ...

    • Is the marginal cost of public funds equal to one? 

      Holtsmark, Bjart (Discussion Paper;No. 893, Working paper, 2019-01-08)
      In a recent article Bas Jacobs found that the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) is one when taxation gives second best resource allocation. This conclusion is based on a claim that there are certain shortcomings with ...

    • Is the relationship between schooling and disability pension receipt causal? 

      Galloway, Taryn Ann; Brinch, Christian N. (Discussion papers;748, Working paper, 2013-06)
      We examine the potential causal effect of years of schooling on the use of public disability pensions by studying the extension of compulsory schooling introduced in Norway in the 1960s. Simple regressions of disability ...

    • Is there a business cycle component in Norwegian macroeconomic quarterly time series? 

      Skjerpen, Terje (Discussion papers;140, Working paper, 1995-01)
      Some main Norwegian quarterly macroeconomic time series are decomposed into unobserved components within the framework of structural time series models using UCARIMA models. In the most general case we allow for a stationary ...

    • Is there a NAIRU in Norway? 

      Stølen, Nils Martin (Discussion Paper;No. 56, Working paper, 1990-12)
      Unemployment in Norway stayed at a rather low level both in the sixties and the seventies. In the same period Norwegian manufacturing industries lost competitiveness. A lower rate of unemployment than the equilibrium rate, ...

    • Is universal child care leveling the playing field? 

      Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;774, Working paper, 2014-03)
      We assess the case for universal child care programs in the context of a Norwegian reform which led to a large-scale expansion of subsidized child care. We use non-linear difference-in-differences methods to estimate the ...

    • It pays to be green - a premature conclusion? 

      Telle, Kjetil; Aslaksen, Iulie; Synnestvedt, Terje (Discussion Papers;No. 394, Working paper, 2004)
      It has been claimed that good environmental performance can improve firms’ economic performance. However, because of e.g. data limitations, the methods applied in most previous quantitative empirical studies of the ...

    • Job creation, heterogeneous workers and technical change : matched worker/plant data : evidence from Norway 

      Salvanes, Kjell G.; Førre, Svein Erik (Discussion Papers;No. 304, Working paper, 2001)
      Abstract: Using matched worker/plant level data for Norway, theories explaining the change in skill composition are assessed using direct evidence on the job creation and destruction for high, medium and low skilled ...

    • Job creation, job destruction and plant turnover in Norwegian manufacturing 

      Klette, Tor Jakob; Mathiassen, Astrid (Discussion papers;136, Working paper, 1995-02)
      The labour market in Norway, as in other Scandinavian countries, is often claimed to be overregulated and incapable of adjustment to changes in job opportunities. The results presented in this paper suggest to the contrary ...