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The Norwegian tax reform : distributional effects and the high-income response
(Discussion Papers;No. 207, Working paper, 1997)Are we better or worse off after the Norwegian tax reform of 1992 and how has the reform influenced the income sizes and the distribution of total income? This question denotes our twofold analysis in this paper. We first ... -
The paradox of the unhappy, growing city: reconciling evidence
(Discussion papers;907, Working paper, 2019-05)This paper attempts to explain why large cities tend to score low on indices of happiness/life satisfaction, while at the same time experiencing population growth. Using Norwegian survey and register data, we show that ... -
The path of labor supply adjustment: Sources of lagged responses to tax-benefit reforms
(Discussion Papers;No. 854, Working paper, 2016-12-05)The standard static labor supply model ignores that it takes time for individuals to adjust to a tax-benefit reform. A labor supply decision model is developed that allows for lagged responses in terms of state dependence, ... -
The pattern of household savings during a hyperinflation : The case of urban China in the late 1980s
(Discussion Papers;No. 217, Working paper, 1998)This paper presents evidence on household savings in urban regions of the Chinese provinces Sichuan and Liaoning based on data from the State Statistical Bureau's Urban Household Survey for the late 1980s. In this period ... -
The political economy of global warming : from data to decision
(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, ... -
The political man and contingent valuation : motives do count
(Discussion Papers;No. 180, Working paper, 1996)In addition to his role as a consumer pursuing his own interests, an individual may also regard himself as an ethical observer, judging matters from society's point of view. It is not clear which of these possibly conflicting ... -
The predictive ability of poverty models : empirical evidence from Uganda
(Discussion Papers;No. 560, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: This paper examines the performance of a particular method for predicting poverty. The method is a supplement to the approach of measuring poverty through a fully-fledged household expenditure survey. As most ... -
The regional dispersion of income inequality in nineteenth-century Norway
(Discussion Papers;No. 842, Working paper, 2016-07-18)This paper documents, for the first time, municipality- and occupation-level estimates of income inequality between individuals in a European country in the nineteenth century, using a combination of several detailed data ... -
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 ...