Methods and documentation for National accounts and business cycles

Articles, analysis, and publications

2024

  1. This paper examines the forecast accuracy of cointegrated vector autoregressive models when confronted with extreme observations at the end of the sample period.

  2. This document provides an algebraic description of the SNOW Global model (SNOW-Global), a multi-sectormulti-region computable general equilibrium (CGE) model tailored to analyze energy, environmental andclimate policies in the world including Norway as a separate region.

  3. In this document, we provide a description of the SNOW model for Norway (SNOW-NO), a multi-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) model tailored to analyze energy, environmental and climate policies in Norway.

  4. This paper documents the Python class ModelSolver. ModelSolver lets the user define a model object in terms of equations and endogenous variables.

2023

  1. Based on the Norwegian experiences, a long-term average pattern is identified as regards the distribution of resource rent due to petroleum activities, which can be used to split the economic ownership of oil and gas between the government and the oil and gas sector in Norway.

  2. This document, by using examples, aims to demonstrate how the quality-adjusted labor input data can be applied for economic analysis in general, and for growth accounting in particular.

  3. This document provides a comprehensive documentation of data sources and methods for calculating the central variables gross domestic product (GDP) and gross national income (GNI) in the Norwegian national accounts.

  4. This document presents a description of updating the treatment of the Norwegian central bank output in both the Supply and Use tables (SUTs) and the institutional sector accounts, more in line with the international standards in this regard.

  5. Somatic services rendered by central government-owned hospitals account for a significant part of nonmarket activities in Norway. The output volume of these services has been currently measured by the summed DRG (diagnosis related groups) points in the Norwegian national accounts.

2021

  1. Statistics Norway started publishing the Monthly National Accounts on 11 September 2018, and this changed the way the Norwegian Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) were compiled.