Nasjonalregnskap og konjunkturer: Discussion Papers

Greenhouse gas emissions in Norway

Discussion Papers no. 337

Publisert: 20. januar 2003

Reduced tax progressivity in Norway in the nineties

Discussion Papers no. 335

Publisert: 20. januar 2003

The inequality in pre-tax income increases in Norway in the 1990s, while the distribution of taxes is about unaltered. This means that tax progressivity has decreased in the period, as measured by summary indices of tax progressivity. Thi...

Price formation in monopolistic markets with endogenous diffusion of trading information

Discussion Papers no. 336

Publisert: 10. desember 2002

Price formation in monopolistic markets with endogenous diffusion of trading information

Discussion Papers no. 336

Publisert: 10. desember 2002

This paper reports on price formation in experimental markets in which a single seller trades with four buyers. Transactions occur if either a buyer accepts an offer to sell from the seller, or the seller accepts an offer to buy from a bu...

Reduced tax progressivity in Norway in the nineties

Discussion Papers no. 335

Publisert: 9. desember 2002

Willingness to pay for dental fear treatment

Discussion Papers no. 334

Publisert: 22. november 2002

Willingness to pay for dental fear treatment

Discussion Papers no. 334

Publisert: 22. november 2002

The aim of this paper is to discuss the social desirability of a treatment program for patients with dental fear. The program consisted of three different fear treatments, cognitive therapy, applied relaxation or nitrous oxide sedation, a...

Small continuous surveys and the Kalman filter

Discussion Papers no. 333

Publisert: 20. november 2002

Small continuous surveys and the Kalman filter

Discussion Papers no. 333

Publisert: 20. november 2002

The time series nature of repeated surveys is seldom taken into account. I present a statistical model of repeated surveys and construct a computationally feasible estimator based on the Kalman filter. The novelty is that the estimator ef...

Eco-labels, production related externalities and trade

Discussion Papers no. 332

Publisert: 14. oktober 2002

Eco-labels, production related externalities and trade

Discussion Papers no. 332

Publisert: 14. oktober 2002

We analyze the trade and welfare effects of eco-labels in a domestic market with one domestic firm and one foreign firm. Pollution is production related, and the government can choose between including the product category in an eco-label...

Labor market modeling recognizing latent job attributes and opportunity constraints

Discussion Papers no. 331

Publisert: 27. september 2002

Labor market modeling recognizing latent job attributes and opportunity constraints

Discussion Papers no. 331

Publisert: 27. september 2002

This paper analyzes labor market behavior of urban Eritrean women with particular reference to the impact of education, earnings and labor market opportunities. Unlike traditional models of labor supply, which assume that work can be supp...

Identification, estimation and testing in Panel Data Models with attrition

Discussion Papers no. 330

Publisert: 23. september 2002

Identification, estimation and testing in Panel Data Models with attrition

Discussion Papers no. 330

Publisert: 23. september 2002

This paper discusses identification, estimation and testing in panel data models with attrition. We focus on a situation which often occurs in the analysis of firms: Attrition (exit) is endogenous and depends on the outcomes of an observe...