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    • Maximizing the discounted tax revenue in a mature oil province 

      Lindholt, Lars (Discussion Papers;No.544, Working paper, 2008)
      Abstract: Using a partial equilibrium model for the global oil market, we search for the producer tax that maximizes the government’s discounted tax revenue in Norway. The oil market model explicitly accounts for reserves, ...

    • Mean-spread-preserving transformations 

      Aaberge, Rolf (Discussion Papers;No. 360, Working paper, 2003)
      Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to define various mean-spread-preserving transformations, which can be considered as generalized versions of the mean-Gini-preserving transformation. The mean-Ginipreserving tran ...

    • Means-testing the child benefit 

      Kornstad, Tom; Thoresen, Thor Olav (Discussion Papers;No. 262, Working paper, 1999)
      Improving the distributional impact of transfers may be costly if it reduces labour supply. In this paper we show how effects of changes in the design of the child benefit programme can be examined by deriving information ...

    • Measuring and decomposing capital stock and service values : should capital quality be given a place? 

      Biørn, Erik (Discussion Papers;No. 518, Working paper, 2007)
      Abstract: Aggregation of tangible capital assets across vintages and decomposition of value aggregates into quantities and prices are considered. Focus is on both capital stock values and capital service values. If the ...

    • Measuring income inequality under restricted interpersonal comparability 

      Mogstad, Magne (Discussion Papers;No. 498, Working paper, 2007)
      Abstract: The standard approach in empirical analyses of income distributions is to estimate income inequality in a country under the assumption of full interpersonal comparability of income. To be meaningful, this method ...

    • Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne; Peragine, Vito (Discussion Papers;No. 620, Working paper, 2010)
      Abstract: In this paper, we introduce and apply a general framework for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the Equality of Opportunity principle (EOp). Our framework allows for both an ex-ante and an ...

    • Measuring the benefits from public services : the effects of local government spending on the distribution of income in Norway 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun (Discussion Papers;No. 339, Working paper, 2003)
      Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to provide an evaluation of how local public in-kind benefits affect the distribution of income in Norway. To this end, a method that accounts for differences between municipalities ...

    • Measuring the price of housing consumption for owners in the CPI 

      Beatty, Timothy K.M.; Larsen, Erling Røed; Sommervoll, Dag Einar (Discussion Papers;No. 427, Working paper, 2005)
      Abstract: Measuring change in the price of housing is an important and notoriously difficult task for national statistical agencies. Different approaches have been attempted, but suffer from known weaknesses. This article ...

    • Mechanism design for refunding emissions payment 

      Hagem, Cathrine; Holtsmark, Bjart; Sterner, Thomas (Discussion papers;705, Working paper, 2012-09)
      We analyze two mechanism designs for refunding emission payments to polluting firms; Output Based (OB) and Expenditure Based (EB) refunding. In both instruments, emissions fees are returned to the polluting industry, ...

    • Micro and macro evidence of the relationship between income mobility and taxation 

      Cappelen, Ådne; Hattrem, Aurora G.; Thoresen, Thor O. (Discussion Paper;1010, Working paper, 2024-01)
      How taxation influences income mobility is largely a neglected topic. In this study we discuss the relationship between taxation and income mobility by analyzing both macro and micro data. Administrative register data ...

    • Micro data on capital inputs: attempts to reconcile stock and flow information 

      Biørn, Erik; Lindquist, Kjersti-Gro; Skjerpen, Terje (Discussion Papers;No. 268, Working paper, 1999)
      We evaluate consequences of some important assumptions ofthe perpetual inventory method of capital stock calculation under geometric depreciation. The data are plant-level panel data from the Norwegian manufacturing ...

    • Micro-level dynamics of social assistance receipt. Evidence from 4 European countries 

      Königs, Sebastian (Discussion papers;797, Working paper, 2015-02)
      This paper presents a study of the monthly dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt – in particular the distribution of spell lengths and the incidence of repeat receipt – in four European countries: Luxembourg, the ...

    • Migration analysis and regional population projections 

      Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn; Sørensen, Knut Ø. (Discussion Paper;No. 46, Working paper, 1989-11)
      The Central Bureau of Statistics in Norway has produced regional population projections for a long period, in which migration is projected by fixed rates of gross out-migration and fixed distribution of in-migrants among ...

    • Mobilising female labour market reserves: What promotes women’s transitions from part-time to full-time work? 

      Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit; Seierstad, Ane (Discussion Papers; No. 658, Working paper, 2011)
      Considering the high female part-time rates in Norway, one may envisage a sizeable additional labour supply if more part-time working women would switch to full time. In view of an ageing population and increased demand ...

    • MODAG A a medium term annual macroeconomic model of the Norwegian economy 

      Bergan, Roar; Cappelen, Ådne; Longva, Svein; Stølen, Nils Martin (Discussion Papers;No. 18, Working paper, 1986-10-15)
      This paper presents the structure and main empirical characteristics of MODAG A, a medium term annual macroeconomic model of the Norwegian economy. The model has an input-output structure with 41 commodities and 33 ...

    • MODAG: A Medium Term Macroeconometric Model of the Norwegian Economy 

      Cappelen, Ådne (Discussion Paper;No. 67, Working paper, 1991-11)
      This paper describes the main structure of the MODAG model, an annual macroeconometric model of the Norwegian economy. A short description of the main features of the model including forcasting performance is followed by ...

    • Modeling and estimation methods for household size in the presence of nonresponse : applied to the Norwegian consumer expenditure survey 

      Belsby, Liv; Bjørnstad, Jan F. (Discussion Papers;No. 206, Working paper, 1997)
      This paper considers the problem of estimating the number of private households of various sizes and the total number of households in Norway. The approach is model-based with a population model for household size given ...

    • Modeling binary panel data with nonresponse 

      Bjørnstad, Jan F.; Sommervoll, Dag Einar (Discussion Papers;No. 297, Working paper, 2001)
      Abstract: This paper studies modeling of nonignorable nonresponse in panel surveys. A class of sequential conditional logistic models for nonresponse is considered. Model-based maximum likelihood estimation and imputation ...

    • Modeling concentration and dispersion in multiple regression 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Bjerve, Steinar; Doksum, Kjell (Discussion Papers;No. 412, Working paper, 2005)
      We consider concepts and models that are useful for measuring how strongly the distribution of a positive response Y is concentrated near a value y0 > 0 with a focus on how concentration varies as a function of covariates. ...

    • Modeling R&D spillovers to productivity: The effects of tax policy 

      Brasch, Thomas von; Cappelen, Ådne; Hungnes, Håvard; Skjerpen, Terje (Discussion Paper;No. 927, Working paper, 2020-04)
      We study the role of R&D spillovers when modelling total factor productivity (TFP) by industry. Using Norwegian industry level data, we find that for many industries there are significant spillovers from both domestic ...