Nasjonalregnskap og konjunkturer: Discussion Papers

Is Norway immune to Dutch disease?

Discussion Papers no. 413

Publisert: 10. mars 2005

Norway's petroleum wealth has become considerably more liquid and thereby visible to the public since the mid 1990s. In the policy debate transformation of wealth is often confused with ordinary income. Such a misconception may have contr...

Can a carbon permit system reduce Spanish unemployment?

Discussion Papers no. 410

Publisert: 10. mars 2005

This paper addresses the frequently articulated worry for the unemployment impacts of abating CO2 emissions. The Spanish economy is ridden by unemployment rates well above the EU average. At the same time the deviation from EU's intermedi...

Consequences of the IPPC-directive's BAT requirements for abatement costs and emissions

Discussion Papers no. 411

Publisert: 10. mars 2005

The Integration Pollution and Prevention Control (IPPC) directive from the European Union implies that the regulatory emission caps should be set in accordance with each industry's Best Available Techniques (BAT). The directive is under i...

Modeling concentration and dispersion in multiple regression

Discussion Papers no. 412

Publisert: 10. mars 2005

We consider concepts and models that are useful for measuring how strongly the distribution of a positive response Y is concentrated near a value with a focus on how concentration varies as a function of covariates. We combine ideas from ...

Can a carbon permit system reduce Spanish unemployment?

Discussion Papers no. 410

Publisert: 10. mars 2005

Choice under uncertainty and bounded rationality

Discussion Papers no. 409

Publisert: 9. mars 2005

Choice under uncertainty and bounded rationality

Discussion Papers no. 409

Publisert: 9. mars 2005

This paper develops a theory for probabilistic models for risky choices that can be viewed as an extension of the expected utility theory to account for bounded rationality. One probabilistic version of the Archimedean Axiom and two versi...

Region-specific versus country-specific poverty lines in analysis of poverty

Discussion Papers no. 408

Publisert: 11. februar 2005

Region-specific versus country-specific poverty lines in analysis of poverty

Discussion Papers no. 408

Publisert: 11. februar 2005

The standard practice in most OECD countries is to measure and evaluate poverty on the basis of a poverty line defined as a specific proportion of the median equivalent income within a country. However, this approach disregards regional d...

The elasticity of substitution of superlative price indices

Discussion Papers no. 407

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

Spousal influence on early retirement behavior

Discussion Papers no. 406

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

Labor supply of retiring couples and heterogeneity in household decision-making structure

Discussion Papers no. 404

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

Retirement behavior of working couples in Norway

Discussion Papers no. 405

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

Spousal influence on early retirement behavior

Discussion Papers no. 406

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

In this paper, we use a binary choice panel data model to analyze married individuals.retirement behavior in Norway when a new option, AFP early retirement becomes available. We focus our study on the influence of the spouse.s characteris...

The elasticity of substitution of superlative price indices

Discussion Papers no. 407

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

The paper presents a method for computing the curvature implicit in the use of superlative price indices. It extends the quadratic lemma and allows us to compute the elasticity of substitution of the underlying preferences in the directio...