Nasjonalregnskap og konjunkturer: Discussion Papers

Aggregation in matching markets

Discussion Papers no. 173

Publisert: 8. mai 1996

Aggregation in matching markets

Discussion Papers no. 173

Publisert: 8. mai 1996

This paper develops aggregate relations for a matching market of heterogeneous suppliers and demanders. The point of departure is the analysis of two-sided matching found in Roth and Sotomayor (1990). Under particular assumptions about th...

Welfare effects of proportional taxation

Discussion Papers no. 171

Publisert: 8. mai 1996

This paper employs a particular labor supply model to examine the welfare effects from replacing current tax systems in Italy, Norway and Sweden by proportional taxation on labor income. The results show that there are high efficiency cos...

Market power, international CO2 taxation and petroleum wealth

Discussion Papers no. 170

Publisert: 18. april 1996

Market power, international CO2 taxation and petroleum wealth

Discussion Papers no. 170

Publisert: 18. april 1996

This paper studies the effects on fossil fuel prices, extraction paths and petroleum wealth of an international carbon tax on fossil fuel consumption. We present an intertemporal equilibrium model for fossil fuels, where the main focus is...

Some Norwegian politicians' use of cost-benefit analysis

Discussion Papers no. 169

Publisert: 15. april 1996

Poverty, land degradation and climatic uncertainty

Discussion Papers no. 162

Publisert: 15. april 1996

This paper studies the implications of climatic uncertainty and poverty for resource degradation. In doing so, two partial models are considered. The first model focuses on productive inputs only, while the second model describes the role...

Some Norwegian politicians' use of cost-benefit analysis

Discussion Papers no. 169

Publisert: 15. april 1996

Members of the Norwegian Parliament were interviewed about the decision process concerning national road investments. Most of them found cost-benefit analysis useful, but apparently not as a device for ranking projects. Rather, the cost-b...

Dynamic choice, multistate duration models and stochastic structure

Discussion Papers no. 172

Publisert: 1. april 1996

Welfare effects of proportional taxation

Discussion Papers no. 171

Publisert: 30. mars 1996

Income inequality and income mobility in the Scandinavian countries compared to the United States

Discussion Papers no. 168

Publisert: 26. mars 1996

Income inequality and income mobility in the Scandinavian countries compared to the United States

Discussion Papers no. 168

Publisert: 26. mars 1996

This paper compares income inequality and income mobility in the Scandinavian countries and the United States during the 1980's. The results demonstrate that inequality is greater in the United States than in the Scandinavian countries an...

Consumer demand with unobservable product attributes

Discussion Papers no. 166

Publisert: 4. mars 1996

Consumer demand with unobservable product attributes

Discussion Papers no. 167

Publisert: 4. mars 1996

Consumer demand with unobservable product attributes

Discussion Papers no. 167

Publisert: 4. mars 1996

In this paper we discuss statistical inference associated with the theoretical model developed in Part I. Specifically, we demonstrate how the relationship between the distribution of prices and unit values can be exploited to estimate so...