Topic: National accounts and business cycles
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Residential end-use electricity demand
Discussion Papers no. 736
We deduce a model for using cross-sectional data for total annual electricity consumption for a sample of households, together with information from energy surveys, to estimate the end uses within an econometric demand model conditional on applian...
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Access to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival
Discussion Papers no. 735
The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist.
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Inequality and growth in the very long run
Discussion Papers no. 734
This paper presents a new method for calculating Gini coefficients from tabulations of the mean income of social classes. Income distribution data from before the Industrial Revolution usually come in the form of such tabulations, called social ta...
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Short run effects of bleaker prospects for oligopolistic producers of a non-renewable resource
Discussion Papers no. 733
In a non-renewable resource market with imperfect competition, the resource owners’ supply is governed both by current demand and by the resource rent.
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The tug-of-war between resource depletion and technological change in the global oil industry 1981 - 2009
Discussion Papers no. 732
We perform an empirical analysis of the extent to which ongoing technological change through R&D activity has offset the effect of ongoing depletion on the cost of finding additional reserves of oil in eight global regions.
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The importance of the distribution sector for exchange rate pass-through in a small open economy
Discussion Papers no. 731
The degree of exchange rate pass-through to domestic goods prices has important implications for monetary policy in small open economies with floating exchange rates.
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Emissions trading with offset markets and free quota allocations
Discussion Papers no. 719
We study interactions between a “policy bloc’s” emissions quota market and an offset market where emissions offsets can be purchased from a non-policy “fringe” of countries (such as for the CDM under the Kyoto Protocol). Policy-bloc firms are assu...
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Preferences for lifetime earnings, earnings risk and nonpecuniary attributes in choice of higher education
Discussion Papers no. 725
Expected earnings are considered to influence individuals' choice of education. However, the presence of nonpecuniary attributes and the different choice set available to prospective students make identification of this relationship difficult.
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The family – a barrier or motivation for female entrepreneurship?
Discussion Papers no. 727
The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in Norway than in most other industrialised societies. In spite of a growing literature, the reasons for this pattern are still not ...
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Political motives in climate and energy policy
Discussion Papers no. 721
Standard economic theory provides clear guidance on the design of cost-efficient policy in the presence of imperfect markets and externalities. However, observed policies reveal extensive discrepancies between principles and practise.
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Divorce in norwegian same-sex marriages 1993-2011
Discussion Papers no. 723
Using longitudinal register data, we first present updated descriptive statistics on the total population of same-sex registered partnerships and marriages formed 1993-2010.
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Does a renewable fuel standard for biofuels reduce climate costs?
Discussion Papers no. 720
Recent contributions have questioned whether biofuels policies actually lead to emissions reductions, and thus lower climate costs. In this paper we make two contributions to the literature.
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Inequality in current and lifetime income
Discussion Papers no. 726
Standard theory of intertemporal choice predicts that people smooth out life-cycle changes in income by borrowing and saving, such that their standard of living in any given year depends more on lifetime income than on that year’s income.
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Classroom grade composition and pupil achievement
Discussion Papers no. 722
This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils in single grade classrooms.
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The capital constraining effects of the norwegian wealth tax
Discussion Papers no. 724
This paper investigates if the Norwegian wealth tax imposes capital constraints on small privately held businesses. A panel of 31,428 Norwegian firms from 2005 to 2009 is used to estimate two models of capital constraints. The models are estimated...
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