Nasjonalregnskap og konjunkturer: Discussion Papers

Foreign control and Norwegian manufacturing performance

Discussion Papers no. 111

Publisert: 11. mai 1994

Car ownership and private car use

Discussion Papers no. 113

Publisert: 11. mai 1994

In this paper we analyze household's car ownership and private car use decisions in a model proposed by de Jong (1990). The model, which incorporates variable and fixed costs of car use, can be used to predict the effects of changes in po...

Foreign control and Norwegian manufacturing performance

Discussion Papers no. 111

Publisert: 11. mai 1994

The intangible asset theory of foreign direct investment holds that firms expand abroad to garner additional returns to intangible assets such as proprietary process or product technology or a strong reputation. I explore Norwegian manufa...

Correlated measurement errors, bounds and parameters, and a model of producer behaviour

Discussion Papers no. 112

Publisert: 11. mai 1994

We examine estimation of a model of producer behavior in the presence of correlated measurement errors in the regressors. Scale economies and price-cost margins are estimated from a set of panel data for manufacturing plants. The paper pr...

The volatility of oil wealth under uncertainty about parameter values

Discussion Papers no. 110

Publisert: 21. april 1994

The volatility of oil wealth under uncertainty about parameter values

Discussion Papers no. 110

Publisert: 21. april 1994

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 using official pri...

Investment and financial constraints

Discussion Papers no. 109

Publisert: 18. mars 1994

Precautionary saving and old-age pensions

Discussion Papers no. 108

Publisert: 18. mars 1994

Precautionary saving and old-age pensions

Discussion Papers no. 108

Publisert: 18. mars 1994

A precautionary saving model is extended to include old-age pensions and provides the framework for an empirical analysis of the relation between old-age pensions and private consumption. Norwegian macro-data for socioeconomic groups of h...

Investment and financial constraints

Discussion Papers no. 109

Publisert: 18. mars 1994

This paper investigates the relationship between a firm's investment decision and its financial situation. We present a model of investment, where the cost of external finance is increasing in the debt ratio. The model is estimated using ...

Depletion of fossil fuels and the impacts of global warming

Discussion Papers no. 107

Publisert: 4. mars 1994

Depletion of fossil fuels and the impacts of global warming

Discussion Papers no. 107

Publisert: 4. mars 1994

This paper combines the theory of optimal extraction of exhaustible resources with the theory of greenhouse externalities, to analyse problems of global warming when the supply side is considered. The optimal carbon tax will initially ris...

The choice of space heating system and energy consumption in Norwegian household

Discussion Papers 102

Publisert: 7. januar 1994

The existence of factor substitution in the primary aluminium industry

Discussion Papers No 106

Publisert: 31. desember 1993

The existence of factor substitution in the primary aluminium industry

Discussion Papers No 106

Publisert: 31. desember 1993