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  • Welfare effects of a corporate tax rate reduction in Norway

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    Reports 2015/27 Welfare effects of a corporate tax rate reduction in Norway Published. Moreover profits are transferred from countries with high tax rates to countries with low tax rates

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  • Households' financial accounts at the end of the second quarter of 2020

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    . Households' interest burden is closely related to the interest rate level. Norges Bank lowered the policy rate to zero in May 2020 and interest rates on loans in banks and mortgage companies have followed suit. The interest burden on loans in the banking sector has fallen in the second quarter of 2020, as lower interest rates have reduced households' interest

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  • Accrued to date liabilities, national numbers 2014-2018

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    . Choice of net rate of interest (difference between the nominal rate and average wage growth used in indexation of entitlements) is therefore of significant importance. A net rate of interest of 1 per cent is chosen in the main alternative

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  • Fiscal multipliers in the Norwegian economy

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    . Simulations on the main model with endogenous exchange rate, interest rate and immigration in addition to a long run financial accelerator in the household sector, show that the multiplier for GDP 0.5 in the medium term and nearly half of that in the long run. The fiscal multiplier is calculated with an unemployment rate close to the last twenty years average of

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  • Aggregate demand and developments in market power, labour share and inequality in Norway

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    . Finally, the effects on the Norwegian economy of the fall in interest rates in the period 2011–2018 are analysed. The reduced interest rate contributed in isolation to output, measured as mainland GDP, being

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  • Self-reinforcing effects between housing prices and credit: an extended version

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    . Interest rates influence housing prices indirectly through the credit channel. Furthermore, households

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  • Effects of reducing Norwegian extraction of oil and natural gas

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    . One reason for this result is an expected lowering of interest rates and a depreciation of the currency that will lead to an increase in non-oil exports. Cuts in the interest rate and a currency depreciation the economy will lead to some recovery in non-oil activities during the 2030s

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  • Economic trends for Møre og Romsdal

    Economic trends per September 2012

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    . Low international interest rates and a strong krone have contributed to a low interest rates in Norway, where they are roughly expected to stay up to next summer, when they are expected to gradually increase. These investments are likely to remain high in the years ahead, but with much lower growth rates

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  • A Gloomy Economic Future?

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    . Lower interest rates, more expansionary fiscal policy, decreasing drop in demand from the petroleum industry and not least slightly increasing growth in Norwegian export markets, are other factors. The rate of unemployment would then reach a peak during 2016, with an annual average of 4.6 percent

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  • Credit regulations in Norway, 1970-2008

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    comprehensive set of regulations, while by the end of the 1980s quantitative regulations, interest rate controls and foreign

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  • Analysis of demand decline and their ripple effects as a result of Covid19 and measures to reduce the spread of infection

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    ), and changes in interest rates and exchange rates. We have previously used similar analyses to analyze the ring effects of the petroleum industry, see, for example, Brasch, Hungnes, and Strøm (2019

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  • Economic trends for Møre og Romsdal

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    . Low interest rates will still have positive effects on the domestic demand. From next year the fiscal policy is expected to give some stronger impulses. High labour immigration and higher labour participation of older employees contributes to small changes in the Norwegian unemployment rates, in spite of a stronger increase of employment towards 2016

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  • Economic trends for Møre og Romsdal

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    . With continued relatively low interest rates and positive real income growth, the increase in household consumption is projected to stay high both in the current and next year

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  • Economic trends for Møre og Romsdal

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    . With relatively low interest rates and rising real income growth, the increase in household consumption is projected to stay high during the next few years. Net immigration to the county is falling, which is due to lower immigration to Norway, while the rate of emigration from the county, similar to the situation for the nation as a whole, is now lower

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  • Macroeconomic modelling in developing countries

    An example from Malawi

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    . Malawi, and most developing countries, is characterized by immature financial institutions, making it difficult to model the link between the exchange rate, interest rates and capital mobility

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