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An almost ideal demand system analysis of non-durable consumption categories
Reports 2013/1
This is a theoretical and empirical exploration into the estimation of demand systems based on quarterly and annual macroeconomic data from the National Accounts for Norway. This data set provides a unique source to portray the composition of hous...
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Short run effects of bleaker prospects for oligopolistic producers of a non-renewable resource
Discussion Papers no. 733
In a non-renewable resource market with imperfect competition, the resource owners’ supply is governed both by current demand and by the resource rent.
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The tug-of-war between resource depletion and technological change in the global oil industry 1981 - 2009
Discussion Papers no. 732
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.
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The importance of the distribution sector for exchange rate pass-through in a small open economy
Discussion Papers no. 731
The degree of exchange rate pass-through to domestic goods prices has important implications for monetary policy in small open economies with floating exchange rates.
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Immigrant skills and employment
Discussion Papers no. 730
For natives, we uncover remarkably stable relations between literacy skills, schooling, and employment across countries. For immigrants, the relations differ strongly: whereas literacy skills form only a weak determinant of immigrant employment in...
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Economic Survey 4-2012
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Estimating the additionality of R&D subsidies using proposal evaluation data to control for firms’ R&D intentions
Discussion Papers no. 729
Empirical examination of whether R&D subsidies to private firms crowd out private investments has been hampered by problems related to selection. A particular worry is that research intentions and the quality of current research ideas may be corre...
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Age at immigration and crime
Discussion Papers no. 728
Previous studies have identified an “immigrant paradox” in crime in which crime rates are highest among immigrants who are young when they arrive in the host country, even though social capital and integration in the labour market and social netwo...
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Automatic outlier handling and model selection in seasonal adjustment
Documents 2012/71
When using X-12-ARIMA for seasonal adjustment, several modeling decisions have to be taken. This can be viewed as a question of balancing the requirement of optimal seasonal adjustment at each time point against the requirement of minimal revisions.
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Oil and interest rates behind upturn
The Norwegian economy continues to defy the bleak global economy. Low interest rates and high demand in the petroleum industry are the key drivers behind the upturn in the Norwegian economy, which began at the start of 2011. Activity growth is exp...
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Divorce in norwegian same-sex marriages 1993-2011
Discussion Papers no. 723
Using longitudinal register data, we first present updated descriptive statistics on the total population of same-sex registered partnerships and marriages formed 1993-2010.
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Inequality in current and lifetime income
Discussion Papers no. 726
Standard theory of intertemporal choice predicts that people smooth out life-cycle changes in income by borrowing and saving, such that their standard of living in any given year depends more on lifetime income than on that year’s income.
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The capital constraining effects of the norwegian wealth tax
Discussion Papers no. 724
This paper investigates if the Norwegian wealth tax imposes capital constraints on small privately held businesses. A panel of 31,428 Norwegian firms from 2005 to 2009 is used to estimate two models of capital constraints. The models are estimated...
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The family – a barrier or motivation for female entrepreneurship?
Discussion Papers no. 727
The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in Norway than in most other industrialised societies. In spite of a growing literature, the reasons for this pattern are still not ...
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Classroom grade composition and pupil achievement
Discussion Papers no. 722
This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils in single grade classrooms.
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