Nasjonalregnskap og konjunkturer: Discussion Papers

Did Norway gain from the 1979-85 oil price shock?

Discussion Papers no. 210

Publisert: 29. januar 1998

UMP unbiased tests for multiparameter testing problems with restricted alternatives

Discussion Papers no. 212

Publisert: 29. januar 1998

Applications of the standard theory of UMP unbiased tests depends on conditions which in general are difficult to verify. In the present paper, however, we suggest more simple rules for applying this theory for regular exponential familie...

Why some corporations pay more tax than necessary

Discussion Papers no. 211

Publisert: 29. januar 1998

It has been noticed in several countries that many corporations do not claim all of their allowable tax depreciation deductions, despite incurring a higher tax cost. There are several possible explanations. First, the uniform reporting ac...

Optimal climate policy under the possibility of a catastrophe

Discussion Papers no. 209

Publisert: 29. januar 1998

Why some corporations pay more tax than necessary

Discussion Papers no. 211

Publisert: 29. januar 1998

"EPA's new emissions trading mechanism

Discussion Papers no. 213

Publisert: 29. januar 1998

In the US tradable SO2 permit scheme 97.2 per cent of the permits are grandfathered annually to electricity utilities. The remaining 2.8 per cent are withheld and offered for sale at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) auction. Also...

Optimal climate policy under the possibility of a catastrophe

Discussion Papers no. 209

Publisert: 29. januar 1998

This paper concerns optimal emissions of greenhouse gases when catastrophic consequences are possible. A numerical model is presented which takes into account both continuous climate-feedback damages as well as the possibility of a catast...

The Norwegian tax reform

Discussion Papers no. 207

Publisert: 17. desember 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 examine the tren...

Modeling and estimation methods for household size in the presence of nonresponse

Discussion Papers no. 206

Publisert: 11. desember 1997

This paper considers the problem of estimating the number of private households of various sizes and the total number of households in Norway. The approach is model-based with a population model for household size given registered family ...

Do higher wages reflect higher productivity?

Discussion Papers no. 208

Publisert: 1. desember 1997

Norway has invested heavily in education in recent decades. The average educational attainment in Norway was below the OECD average in 1960, while in 1995 Norway was among the OECD countries with the highest average educational attainment 1 . Howe...

The Norwegian tax reform

Discussion Papers no. 207

Publisert: 30. november 1997

Modeling and estimation methods for household size in the presence of nonresponse

Discussion Papers no. 206

Publisert: 25. november 1997

Cost-benefit analysis and the democratic ideal

Discussion Papers no. 205

Publisert: 20. november 1997

Cost-benefit analysis and the democratic ideal

Discussion Papers no. 205

Publisert: 20. november 1997

In traditional cost-benefit analyses of public projects, every citizen’s willingness to pay for a project is given an equal weight. This is sometimes taken to imply that cost-benefit analysis is a democratic method for making public decis...

Estimation of time series of latent variables in an accounting system

Discussion Papers no. 203

Publisert: 6. november 1997

We present an approach for estimating time series of a set of latent variables satisfying accounting identities. We concentrate on a simple case study and comment on possible generalizations. The model consists of three main parts: (i) A ...