Nasjonalregnskap og konjunkturer: Discussion Papers

A statistical model for simple, fast and reliable measurement of poverty

Discussion Papers no. 415

Publisert: 22. april 2005

A simple poverty predictor model with assessment of the uncertainty

Discussion Papers no. 415

Publisert: 22. april 2005

A statistical model for simple, fast and reliable measurement of povert

Discussion Papers no. 415

Publisert: 22. april 2005

The primus inter pares of the UN Millennium Development Goals is to reduce poverty. The only internationally accepted method of estimating poverty requires a measurement of total consumption based on a time and resource demanding househol...

Are high oil prices profitable for OPEC in the long run?

Discussion Papers no. 416

Publisert: 22. april 2005

High oil prices are favourable for OPEC in the short run, but may undermine its future revenues. We search for the optimal oil price level for the producer group, using a partial equilibrium model for the oil market. The model explicitly ...

A simple poverty predictor model with assessment of the uncertainty

Discussion Papers no. 415

Publisert: 22. april 2005

An expenditure based estimate of Britain's black economy revisited

Discussion Papers no. 414

Publisert: 1. april 2005

An expenditure based estimate of Britain's black economy revisited

Discussion Papers no. 414

Publisert: 1. april 2005

The seminal paper by Pissarides and Weber (1989) is one of several previous studies trying to measure the size of the black economy. Pissarides and Weber compared the relationship between food expenditure and income in two groups of worke...

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

Discussion Papers no. 411

Publisert: 10. mars 2005

Modeling concentration and dispersion in multiple regression

Discussion Papers no. 412

Publisert: 10. mars 2005

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...

Is Norway immune to Dutch disease?

Discussion Papers no. 413

Publisert: 10. mars 2005

Can a carbon permit system reduce Spanish unemployment?

Discussion Papers no. 410

Publisert: 10. mars 2005

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 ...