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    • Targeted carbon tariffs: Carbon leakage and welfare effects 

      Böhringer, Christoph; Bye, Brita; Fæhn, Taran; Rosendahl, Knut Einar (Discussion papers;805, Working paper, 2015-03)
      Climate effects of unilateral carbon policies are undermined by carbon leakage. To counteract leakage and increase global cost-effectiveness carbon tariffs can be imposed on the emissions embodied in imports from non-regulating ...

    • Targeting public services through unequal treatment of unequals 

      Langørgen, Audun (Discussion Papers;No. 558, Working paper, 2008)
      Abstract: When private goods are publicly provided, government authorities have to determine the distribution of services on recipients. In this paper, the public service provider is assumed to maximize utility defined ...

    • Tax effects on unemployment and the choice of educational type 

      Alstadsæter, Annette; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe (Discussion Papers;No. 419, Working paper, 2005)
      Abstract: This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals' choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy's skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high ...

    • Tax reforms when utility is composed of additive functions 

      Vennemo, Haakon (Discussion Paper;78, Working paper, 1993-01)
      The paper discusses how a tax reform should be designed when utility can be written as additive, separable in an additive sub function, or nested additive. General characterization results can be simplified considerably ...

    • Tax reforms, dividend policy and trends in income inequality : empirical evidence based on Norwegian data 

      Fjærli, Erik; Aaberge, Rolf (Discussion Papers; No. 284, Working paper, 1999)
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    • Taxation of fuel and vehicles when emissions are constrained 

      Bjertnæs, Geir Haakon (Discussion Paper;No. 949, Working paper, 2021-03)
      A tax on fuel combined with tax exemptions or subsidies for fuel-efficient vehicles is implemented in many countries to fulfill the Paris agreement and to curb mileage-related externalities from road traffic. The present ...

    • Taxation of housing. Killing several birds with one stone 

      Bø, Erlend Eide (Discussion Papers;No. 829, Working paper, 2015-11-19)
      The Norwegian public policy debate regularly returns to the private housing market. Housing prices have increased by 200 percent in real terms over the last two decades, a large share of households have high debt ratios, ...

    • Taxation of the rich and incentives for investments. The case of Norway 

      Bjertnæs, Geir Haakon (Discussion Paper;No. 1001, Working paper, 2023-05)
      Taxation of capital income and wealth redistributes from the rich but may harm the Norwegian economy as business investments is distorted. This study shows how to redistribute from the richest without distorting investment ...

    • Taxation of the rich and the cost of raising tax revenue 

      Bjertnæs, Geir Haakon (Discussion Paper;No. 1002, Working paper, 2023-05)
      Taxation of capital income and wealth designed to redistribute from the rich may harm small open economies with a globalized capital market as investments are distorted. This study shows that raising tax revenue by taxing ...

    • Taxation, unemployment and growth: dynamic welfare effects of "green" policies 

      Bye, Brita (Discussion Papers;No. 183, Working paper, 1996)
      This paper analyses the effects of so-called "green" tax reforms on a small, open economy producing an imperfect substitute for foreign goods, using an intertemporal general equilibrium model. The labour market is characterised ...

    • Taxes on the internet. Deterrence effects of public disclosure 

      Bø, Erlend Eide; Slemrod, Joel; Thoresen, Thor Olav (Discussion papers;770, Working paper, 2014-01)
      Supporters of public disclosure of personal tax information point to its deterrent effect on tax evasion, but this effect has not been empirically explored. Although Norway has a long tradition of public disclosure of tax ...

    • Taxing or subsidising an exporting industry? 

      Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion Paper;No. 25, Working paper, 1987-10-16)
      This paper analyses whether a welfare maximizing government should tax or subsidize the home firms in an industry characterized by. oligopolistic competition and differentiated products. The home firms are assumed to ...

    • Technological changes in the pulp and paper industry and the role of uniform versus selective environmental policy 

      Bruvoll, Annegrete; Bye, Torstein; Larsson, Jan; Telle, Kjetil (Discussion Papers;No. 357, Working paper, 2003)
      Abstract: Although environmental regulations may imply a cost increase on firm's conventional input factors, such regulations could stimulate the incentives to improve factor productivity. Productivity measures including ...

    • Technology, trade and inequality 

      Bjørnstad, Roger; Skjerpen, Terje (Discussion Papers;No. 364, Working paper, 2003)
      Abstract: In recent decades new technology has led to increasing demand for well-educated labour at the expense of labour with lower education levels. Moreover, increased imports from low-cost countries have squeezed ...

    • Testing for co-non-linearity 

      Hungnes, Håvard (Discussion papers;699, Working paper, 2012-07)
      This article introduces the concept of co-non-linearity. Co-non-linearity is an example of a common feature in time series (Engle and Koziciki, 1993, J. Bus. Econ. Statist.) and an extension of the concept of common nonlinear ...

    • Testing for long-run homogeneity in the linear almost ideal demand system : an application on Norwegian quarterly data for non-durables 

      Skjerpen, Terje; Swensen, Anders Rygh (Discussion Papers;No. 289, Working paper, 2000)
      Abstract: We consider testing for long-run homogeneity within a dynamic consumer demand system allowing for non-stationarities. The static long-run solution is assumed to follow the Linear Almost Ideal Demand System and ...

    • Testing for market power in the Norwegian primary aluminium industry 

      Lindquist, Kjersti-Gro (Discussion papers;No.132, Working paper, 1994-11)
      The hypothesis of market power in the Norwegian primary aluminium industry is tested using plant-level panel data. Economies of scale are found to be present, and Norwegian aluminium plants charge a procyclical price-cost ...

    • Testing Rational Expectations in Vector Autoregressive Models 

      Johansen, Søren; Swensen, Anders Rygh (Discussion papers;129, Working paper, 1994-10)
      Assuming that the solutions of a set of restrictions on the rational expectations of future values can be represented as a vector autoregressive model, we study the implied restrictions on the coefficients. Nonstationary ...

    • Testing the multiproduct hypothesis on Norwegian aluminium industry plants 

      Larsson, Jan (Discussion Papers;No. 350, Working paper, 2003)
      Abstract: Although most production activities involve multiple outputs, econometric models of production or cost functions normally involve only one single homogeneous output. The aim of this paper is to test the hypothesis ...

    • Testing the rational expectations hypothesis - Using Norwegian microeconomic data 

      Svendsen, Ingvild (Discussion Paper;No. 90, Working paper, 1993-10)
      The rational expectations hypothesis (REH) is tested directly using Norwegian microeconomic data on firms' expectations of the prices of own products in domestic and export markets and expectations of demand for own products ...