Blar i Discussion Papers på forfatter "Olsen, Øystein"
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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 ... -
Effective rates of assistance for Norwegian industries
Holmøy, Erling; Hægeland, Torbjørn; Olsen, Øystein (Discussion Papers;No. 122, Working paper, 1994)We measure the effective assistance to 18 Norwegian private industries in 1989 caused by government budgetary subsidies, indirect commodity taxes, import protection through nominal tariffs and non-tariff-barriers, price ... -
Fuel choice and the demand for natural gas in Western European households
Bartlett, Sarita; Dagsvik, John K.; Olsen, Øystein; Strøm, Steinar (Discussion Paper;No. 23, Working paper, 1987)The paper presents an econometric model for analysing natural gas demand for space heating in the residential sector in Weste rn Europe. A discrete-continuous • dynamic choice model is specified. Households' decisions ... -
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 ... -
Gross and net capital, productivity, and the form of the survival function some norwegian evidence
Biørn, Erik; Holmøy, Erling; Olsen, Øystein (Discussion Papers;No. 11, Working paper, 1985-05-29) -
The multi-sectoral growth model MSG-4 : formal structure and empirical characteristics
Longva, Svein; Olsen, Øystein; Lorentsen, Lorents (Discussion Paper;No. 8, Working paper, 1985)In the first part of this paper a brief retrospective survey of the development of the MSG model is given, from it was first presented in Johansen (1960) until the present version MSG-4. Some principal choices to be ... -
A note on myopic decision rules in the neoclassical theory of producer behaviour
Holmøy, Erling; Olsen, Øystein (Discussion Paper;No. 34, Working paper, 1988-05)The paper presents a theoretical framework for analysing investment behaviour in a perfect neoclassical environment. The model distinguishes explicitly between capital units of different age. In coherence with the neoclassical ... -
The Oil market as an oligopoly
Berger, Kjell; Hoel, Michael; Holden, Steinar; Olsen, Øystein (Discussion Paper;No. 32, Working paper, 1988-03)This paper treats the oil market as an oligopoly with a competitive fringe. The oligopoly is assumed to consist of Egypt, Oman, Mexico, Malaysia and Norway plus all OPEC members. The remaining oil producing countries are ... -
What are the options for non-OPEC producing countries?
Berger, Kjell; Bjerkholt, Olav; Olsen, Øystein (Discussion Paper;No. 26, Working paper, 1987)This paper discuss medium- and long term strategies for non-OPEC oil producing countries highly dependent on petroleum revenues. First a picture of the international oil market of the 1990s is outlined. Then we look at ...