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    • Optimal Starting and Stopping Rules for Resource Depletion when Price is Exogenous and Stochastic 

      Bjerkholt, Olav; Brekke, Kjell Arne (Discussion Paper;No. 40, Working paper, 1988-12)
      Optimal developement of exhaustible natural resources is analyzed under the assumption that oil prices follows a geometrical browninan motion: Under specific assumption on cost structure closed form soltions for the ...

    • Business cycles and oil price fluctuations: Some evidence for six OECD countries 

      Mork, Knut Anton; Mysen, Hans Terje; Olsen, Øystein (Discussion Paper;No. 43, Working paper, 1989-02)
      The correlations between oil-price movements and GNP/GDP fluctuations are investigated for the United States, Canada, West Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Norway. Asymmetric responses to price increases and decreases ...

    • Unobserved heterogeneity in models of marriage dissolution 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Kravdal, Øystein; Wennemo, Tom (Discussion Paper;No. 42, Working paper, 1989-02)
      The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of unobserved heterogeneity when analysing the determinants of marriage dissolution. In the present analysis the parameter estimates of the explanatory variables appear to ...

    • SIMEN. Studies of industry, environment and energy towards 2000 

      Bye, Brita; Bye, Torstein; Lorentsen, Lorents (Discussion Paper;No. 44, Working paper, 1989-08)
      This paper describes an attempt to analyze the question of how to control air pollution, without hampering further economic growth. The analytical framework is a macroeconomic planning model, extended with a submodel for ...

    • Gas trade and demand in Northwest Europe: Regulation, bargaining and competition 

      Bjerkholt, Olav; Gjelsvik, Eystein; Olsen, Øystein (Discussion Paper;No. 45, Working paper, 1989-08)
      The paper investigates the present role of the gas transmission companies and possible effects of a deregulation of the European gas market by 1992, i.e. the introduction of the principle of common carriage or open access ...

    • 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 ...

    • A note on the short run versus long run welfare gain from a tax reform 

      Christiansen, Vidar (Discussion Paper;No. 47, Working paper, 1990-02)
      This note discusses the welfare implications of the phenomenon that the long-term response to a tax reform is often much stronger than the impact in the short run. As a polar case a beneficial revenueneutral reform is ...

    • Stabilization of emissions of CO2: A computable general equilibrium assessment 

      Glomsrød, Solveig; Vennemo, Haakon; Johnsen, Torgeir (Discussion Paper;No. 48, Working paper, 1990-04)
      Using a multisector applied general equilibrium model, the paper studies economic development perspectives in Norway under limits to emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2 ). A wide range of effects are discussed, including ...

    • Properties of demand functions for linear consumption aggregates 

      Aasness, Jørgen (Discussion Paper;No. 49, Working paper, 1990-07)
      The starting point is the demand functions for homogeneous goods, with properties derived from standard static consumer theory. A linear consumption aggregate of a commodity group is defined as a weighted sum of the physical ...

    • Non-stationary inflow and duration of unemployment 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Wennemo, Tom (Discussion Paper;No. 52, Working paper, 1990-10)
      This paper is concerned with econometric problems and methods involved in estimating duration models using data on incomplete unemployment spells provided by standard labor force surveys. In particular it considers how the ...

    • Recent developments in parity progression intensities in Norway, an analysis based on population register data 

      de León C., José Gomez (Discussion Paper;No. 51, Working paper, 1990-10)
      This contribution summarizes research results from a project at the Central Bureau of Statistics analyzing the determinants of cohort fertility in Norway. The data consist of female birth histories derived from reported ...

    • Empirical EDA Models to Fit and Project Time Series of Age-Specific Mortality Rates 

      de León C., José Gomez (Discussion Paper;No. 50, Working paper, 1990-10)
      This paper illustrates an application of Exploratory Data Analysis methods to inspect, fit and project a time series of age-specific mortality rates. The analysis centers on Norwegian age-specific mortality rates covering ...

    • Labor supply, income distribution and excess burden of personal income taxation in Norway 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Dagsvik, John K.; Strøm, Steinar (Discussion Paper;No. 54, Working paper, 1990-12)
      This paper presents the results of an empirical analysis of labor supply for married couples in NorwaS, based on a new modelling approach. This new framework is particularly convenient for dealing with'complicated budget ...

    • 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, ...

    • Optimal taxation in applied general equilibrium models adopting the Armington assumption 

      Vennemo, Haakon (Discussion Paper;No. 55, Working paper, 1990-12)
      The paper derives formulas for optimal taxation in a stylized Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model, and shows their potential empirical significance. Because of the Armington-assumption for exports and imports, the ...

    • Labor supply, income distribution and excess burden of personal income taxation in Sweden 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Dagsvik, John K.; Strøm, Steinar (Discussion Paper;No. 53, Working paper, 1990-12)
      The paper presents results from a labor supply study on Swedish data. The estimated labor supply model is based on a new methodological approach. This approach is well suited for taking into account complex nonlinear and ...

    • Macroeconomic modelling: The Norwegian experience 

      Cappelen, Ådne (Discussion Paper;No. 57, Working paper, 1991-02)
      This paper describes the institutional background of Norwegian large scale macroeconometric modelbuilding. Such models were in general subject of harsh criticism during the 1970s. We discuss how modelbuilders in Norway . ...

    • Inequality in distributions of hours of work and consumption in Peru 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Dagsvik, John K. (Discussion Paper;No. 59, Working paper, 1991-02)
      Firstly, this paper examines the relative differences in observed hours of work, consumption (income) and welfare among individuals and households in Peru in 1985-1986. For this purpose a Gini-related measure of inequality ...

    • Household production, consumption and time allocation in Peru 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Aaberge, Rolf (Discussion Paper;No. 58, Working paper, 1991-02)
      Based on the neo-classical theory of time allocation, consumption and production we estimate a particular econometric model for Lima and the rural areas of Peru. This model is well suited for carrying out policy simulations ...

    • On the importance of R&D and ownership for productivity growth: Evidence from Norwegian Micro-Data 1976-85 

      Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion Paper;No. 60, Working paper, 1991-02)
      The first part of this paper develops a semi-parametric growth accounting framework, which permits a simultaneous study of productivity changes, scale economies and market power, extending the approach developed by Hall ...