Blar i Discussion Papers på forfatter "Larsen, Erling Røed"
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Are rich countries immune to the resource curse? : evidence from Norway's management of its oil riches
Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers;No. 362, Working paper, 2003)Abstract: Growth studies show, counter to intuition, that the discovery of a natural resource may be a curse rather than a blessing since resource-rich countries grow slower than others. But it has been suggested that ... -
Consumption inequality in Norway in the 80s and 90s
Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers;No. 325, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: This article describes the consumption model and inequality study of Chapter 2 in the author's unpublished Ph.D. dissertation submitted at the Dept. of Economics, University of California, Berkeley. The Norwegian ... -
Distributional and environmental effects of taxes on transportation
Aasness, Jørgen; Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers;No. 321, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: This article studies environmental and distributional effects from a differentiated tax system on a set of disaggregated transportation goods. Empirical examination on Norwegian data indicates that higher tax ... -
Distributional effects of environmental taxes on transportation. Evidence from engel curves in the United States
Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers;No. 428, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: Indirect taxes on transportation activities that pollute can correct externalities and close the gaps between private and social costs. However, policy makers often find such Pigou taxes difficult to implement ... -
Does the CPI mirror costs-of-living? Engel's law suggests not in Norway
Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers;No. 368, Working paper, 2004)There is considerable interest in identifying the magnitude of the difference between increases in CPI and costs-of-living, and this article uses the technique proposed by Hamilton (2001) to measure this discrepancy for ... -
Driven to drink : sin taxes near a border
Beatty, Timothy K.M.; Larsen, Erling Røed; Sommervoll, Dag Einar (Discussion Papers;No. 507, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: This paper investigates household purchasing behavior in response to differing alcohol and tobacco taxes near an international border. Our study suggests that large tax differentials near borders induce economically ... -
Escaping the resource curse and the Dutch Disease? : when and why Norway caught up with and forged ahead of its neighbors
Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers;No. 377, Working paper, 2004)Abstract: In the 1960s, Norway lagged behind its Scandinavian neighbors in the aggregate value of economic production per capita, as it had for decades. By the 1990s, Norway had caught up with and forged ahead of Denmark ... -
Estimating latent total consumption in a household
Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers;No. 324, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: This article presents a new way of estimating latent total consumption in a household that may improve the accuracy of studies into permanent income and consumption inequality. While the frequently used total ... -
From data to levy design : the five stages of implementing housing taxes
Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers; 596, Working paper, 2009)Taxes on housing consumption have attractive features. They can enhance overall efficiency, function as automatic stabilizers, and work progressively. Implementation, however, requires a careful balance between economic ... -
Home, sweet home or is it -always? Testing the efficiency of the Norwegian housing market
Larsen, Erling Røed; Weum, Steffen (Discussion Papers;No. 506, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: The question of whether the housing market is efficient or not is posed by an increasing number of economists, policymakers, current homeowners and prospective homebuyers. This article tests the efficiency ... -
Markets where buyers also are sellers : how realized home equity may work as an accelerator of house prices
Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers;No. 618, Working paper, 2010)Abstract: The house price level is a function of buyers’ realized home equity, and buyers’ realized home equity is a function of the house price level. This interdependence follows from the fact that buyers are sellers ... -
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 ... -
Revealing demand for nature experience using purchase data of equipment and lodging
Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers;No. 305, Working paper, 2001)Abstract: In 1967, John Krutilla suggested a relationship between car camping, canoe cruising, and cross-country skiing and induced demand for wild, primitive, and wilderness-related opportunities. Here, the time trend ... -
Rising inequality of housing? : evidence from segmented housing price indices
Larsen, Erling Røed; Sommervoll, Dag Einar (Discussion Papers;No. 363, Working paper, 2003)Abstract: This article uses the Case-Shiller technique for constructing housing price indices on a Norwegian data set of transactions for the period 1991-2002 consisting of 10 376 pairs of repeated sales. Using a weighted ... -
Searching for basic consumption patterns : is the Engel elasticity of housing unity?
Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers;No. 323, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: We estimate Engel elasticities of housing expenditures for each independent cross-section of the Consumer Expenditure Surveys in the period 1986-1998, and find that the elasticity remains close to unity for all ... -
The impact on rent from tenant and landlord characteristics and interaction
Larsen, Erling Røed; Sommervoll, Dag Einar (Discussion Papers;No. 467, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: Owner-occupied housing services and rented housing services are often considered close substitutes, and both house price and rental price indices rely on regressions based on dwelling and location characteristics. ... -
The political economy of global warming : from data to decision
Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers;No. 322, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: This article studies the process from data acquisition to policy decision in relation to an optimum policy on global warming. Policymakers must be reasonably skeptical before proposing remedies to curb warming, ... -
Using Engel curves to estimate purchasing power parity : a case study of the computation of the exchange rate between the Norwegian krone and the U.S. dollar
Larsen, Erling Røed (Discussion Papers;580, Working paper, 2009)Standard practice of estimating purchasing power parities (PPP) involves using prices, in domestic currencies, of a common basket of goods and services, then calculating the price-equalizing exchange rate. In this article, ...