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The relations between bank-funding costs, retail rates, and loan volumes. Evidence form Norwegian microdata
(Discussion papers;742, Working paper, 2013-05)In this paper, we examine two questions: i) how changes in the funding costs of banks affect retail loan rates and ii) how changes in relative loan rates between banks affect their market shares. To do so, we estimate a ... -
The relationship between altruism and equal sharing. Evidence from inter vivos transfer behavior
(Discussion Papers;No. 439, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: Several studies reject the implications of the altruism model. In this study it is argued that parents who transfer resources to their children both are altruistic and influenced by an equal division fairness ... -
The relationship between earnings and first birth probability among Norwegian men and women 1994-2008
(Discussion papers;787, Working paper, 2014-10)I analyze whether the correlation between yearly earnings and the first birth probabilities changed in the period 1994-2008 in Norway, applying discrete-time hazard regressions to highly accurate data from population ... -
The relationship between firm mobility and tax level: Empirical evidence of fiscal competition between local governments
(Discussion Papers;No. 424, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: The mobility of the tax base may influence fiscal outcomes. The many theoretical contributions about the role of mobility are not matched by empirical evidence. Existing studies address strategic interaction ... -
The relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors to cancer risk and cancer mortality in Norway
(Discussion papers;776, Working paper, 2014-04)Using Norwegian cancer registry data we study twin and non-twin siblings to decompose variation in cancer at most common sites and cancer mortality into a genetic, shared environment and individual (unshared environmental) ... -
The response by the Norwegian aluminium industry to changing market structure
(Discussion Papers;No. 237, Working paper, 1998)This paper analyses how changes in market structure have affected the margins (measured by the Lerner index) of Norwegian aluminium plants. Instead of showing the expected negative trend, due to increased competition ... -
The role of heterogeneous demand for temporal and structural aggregation bias
(Discussion Papers;No. 537, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: Differences in estimated parameters depending on the frequency of aggregate data have been reported in several fields of economic research. Some differences are due to seasonal variations in demand, but temporal ... -
The social contingency of wants implications for growth and the environment
(Discussion Papers;No. 227, Working paper, 1998)Economic models typically assume that individual wants are determined by forces exogenous to the economic system. Social psychology and consumer research, in contrast, support the view that the perceived benefits of ... -
The Social cost of government spending in an economy with large tax distortions. A CGE decomposition for Norway
(Discussion Papers;No. 396, Working paper, 2004)Abstract: We use a CGE model to estimate the social cost of a marginal increase in public expenditure in Norway. Norway exemplifies an economy with high taxes. Distortionary taxes imply wedges between the market prices ... -
The substitution bias of the consumer price index
(Discussion Papers;No. 451, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: The paper uses elementary consumer theory to propose an inflation independent ratio definition of the substitution bias of the Laspeyres consumer price index, and derives an approximate substitution bias which ... -
The tug-of-war between resource depletion and technological change in the global oil industry 1981 - 2009
(Discussion papers;732, Working paper, 2013-01)We perform an empirical analysis of the extent to which ongoing technological change through R&D activity has offset the effect of ongoing depletion on the cost of finding additional reserves of oil in eight global regions. ... -
The Volatility of Oil Wealth under Uncertainty about Parameter Values
(Discussion papers;110, Working paper, 1994-04)Aslaksen et al. (1990) concluded that the petroleum wealth of Norway, and hence the permanent income from petroleum extraction, was as uncertain as the yearly oil revenues. Their conclusion was based on wealth estimates ... -
The welfare cost of market power : accounting for intermediate good firms
(Discussion Papers;No. 502, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: The market power of firms in intermediate good markets is found to generate a substantial welfare cost. Markup pricing of intermediate good firms contributes to increase the wedge between the marginal product ... -
The welfare effects of carbon policies: grandfathered quotas versus differentiated taxes
(Discussion Papers;No. 261, Working paper, 1999)Recently, it has been demonstrated that pre-existing distortionary taxes can substantially increase the costs of market-based instruments which do not raise revenue, such as non-auctioned emissions quotas. Revenue-raising ... -
The welfare effects of housing taxation in a distorted economy: A general equilibrium analysis
(Discussion Papers;No. 306, Working paper, 2001)Abstract: Efficient capital taxation has been one of the most important objectives for large tax reforms implemented in several countries during the last decades. The Norwegian Tax reform of 1992 took a large step towards ... -
"The worth of a wildflower" : precautionary perspectives on the environmental risk of GMOs
(Discussion Papers;No. 476, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: How much is a wildflower worth? Inspired by “The worth of a songbird” by Funtowicz and Ravetz (1994) we use the value of a wildflower as symbol of the complexity of evaluating environmental qualities and risks. ... -
Theoretical and econometric modeling of disequilibrium
(Discussion Paper;No. 83, Working paper, 1993-02)This paper surveys some recent work in the theoretical and econometric disequilibrium literature. The first .part of the paper gives an overview of some the main concepts used in the theory of non-Walrasian economics. These ... -
Theoretical and practical arguments for modeling labor supply as a choice among latent jobs
(Discussion papers;692, Working paper, 2012-06)Models of labor supply derived from stochastic utility representations and discretized sets of feasible hours of work have gained popularity because they are more practical than standard approaches based on marginal calculus. ... -
Time aggregation and state dependence in welfare receipt
(Discussion papers;771, Working paper, 2014-03)Dynamic discrete-choice models have been an important tool in studies of state dependence in benefit receipt. An assumption of such models is that benefit receipt sequences follow a conditional Markov process. This property ... -
Time to spare and too much care: Congestion and overtreatment at the maternity ward
(Discussion Paper;No. 963, Working paper, 2021-09)Identifying the causal effect of resource use on health outcomes is generally complicated by endogenous supply and demand adjustments. This paper tackles these issues in the setting of the maternity ward using the number ...