Nasjonalregnskap og konjunkturer: Discussion Papers

Cost-effective environmental policy

Discussion Papers no. 314

Publisert: 7. januar 2002

Cost-effective environmental policy

Discussion Papers no. 314

Publisert: 7. januar 2002

Cost-effective environmental policy generally requires that all emission sources are faced with the same tax. In this paper I discuss how the existence of induced technological change may alter this result, if at least some of the effect ...

Revealing demand for nature experience using purchase data of equipment and lodging

Discussion Papers No. 305

Publisert: 31. desember 2001

In 1967, John Krutilla suggested a relationship between car camping, canoe cruising, and cross-country skiing and induced demand for wild, primitive, and wilderness-related opportunities. Here, the time trend of cross-section parameter es...

Equality of opportunity versus equality of outcome in analysing optimal income taxation

Discussion Papers No. 307

Publisert: 31. desember 2001

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework for analysing optimal income taxation. EOp optimal tax rules seek to equalise income differentials arisin...

Does public policy crowd out private contributions to public goods?

Discussion Papers No. 300

Publisert: 31. desember 2001

It is sometimes claimed that individuals’ contributions to public goods are not motivated by economic costs and benefits alone, but that people also have a moral or norm-based motivation. A number of studies indicate that such moral or no...

The welfare effects of housing taxation in a distorted economy

Discussion Papers No. 306

Publisert: 31. desember 2001

Efficient capital taxation has been one of the most important objectives for large tax reforms implemented in several countries during the last decades. The Norwegian Tax reform of 1992 took a large step towards tax neutrality between the...

Job creation, heterogeneous workers and technical change

Discussion Papers No. 304

Publisert: 31. desember 2001

Using matched worker/plant level data for Norway, theories explaining the change in skill composition are assessed using direct evidence on the job creation and destruction for high, medium and low skilled workers. Skill based job creatio...

Compensated variation in random utility models

Discussion Papers No. 299

Publisert: 31. desember 2001

In this paper we introduce the notion of random expenditure function and derive the distribution of the expenditure function and corresponding compensated choice probabilities in the general case when the (random) utilities are nonlinear ...

Optimal combinations of income tax and subsidies for education

Discussion Papers no. 313

Publisert: 14. desember 2001

Optimal combinations of income tax and subsidies for education

Discussion Papers no. 313

Publisert: 14. desember 2001

Nielsen and Sørensen (1997) find that progressive taxation of labour income is optimal when capital income is taxed. This paper shows that their main result still holds when introducing endogenous choice of occupation, individuals with no...

Prevalence and substitution effects in tobacco consumption

Discussion Papers no. 312

Publisert: 30. november 2001

Prevalence and substitution effects in tobacco consumption

Discussion Papers no. 312

Publisert: 30. november 2001

This paper analyzes tobacco demand within a discrete choice framework. Using binomial and multinomial logit models with random effects, and an unbalanced panel data set of Norwegian households over a twenty year period, we first consider ...

Estimating and restricting growth rates and cointegration means

Discussion Papers no. 309

Publisert: 29. oktober 2001

The parameters in the cointegration vector and the loading parameters are not the only interesting parameters in a vector cointegration model. With a reformulation of the model the intercept parameters can be decomposed into growth parame...

A method of weighting adjustment for survey data subject to nonignorable nonresponse

Discussion Papers no. 311

Publisert: 26. oktober 2001

An experimental investigation of social norms

Discussion Papers no. 310

Publisert: 26. oktober 2001