Nasjonalregnskap og konjunkturer: Discussion Papers

Measuring the benefits from public services

Discussion Papers no. 339

Publisert: 31. desember 2003

The purpose of this paper is to provide an evaluation of how local public in-kind benefits affect the distribution of income in Norway. To this end, a method that accounts for differences between municipalities in capacity to produce the ...

Rising inequality of housing?

Discussion Papers no. 363

Publisert: 31. desember 2003

This article uses the Case-Shiller technique for constructing housing price indices on a Norwegian data set of transactions for the period 1991-2002 consisting of 10 376 pairs of repeated sales. Using a weighted least squares scheme in or...

Rising inequality of housing?

Discussion Papers no. 363

Publisert: 17. desember 2003

Technology, trade and inequality

Discussion Papers no. 364

Publisert: 17. desember 2003

Technology, trade and inequality

Discussion Papers no. 364

Publisert: 17. desember 2003

In recent decades new technology has led to increasing demand for well-educated labour at the expense of labour with lower education levels. Moreover, increased imports from low-cost countries have squeezed out many Norwegian manufacturin...

Greenhouse gas emissions in Norway

Discussion Papers no. 337

Publisert: 15. desember 2003

During the last decade, Norway has carried out an ambitious climate policy. The main policy tool is a relatively high carbon tax, which was implemented already in 1991. Data for the development in CO2 emissions since then provide a unique...

A theory-based measure of the output of the education sector

Discussion Papers no. 353

Publisert: 23. november 2003

The paper estimates the output of the Norwegian higher education sector based on a modification of the methodology introduced by Jorgenson and Fraumeni (JF) (1989). JF measure output in the education sector by the increase in the total di...

Are rich countries immune to the resource curse?

Discussion Papers no. 362

Publisert: 30. oktober 2003

Are rich countries immune to the resource curse?

Discussion Papers no. 362

Publisert: 30. oktober 2003

Growth studies show, counter to intuition, that the discovery of a natural resource may be a curse rather than a blessing since resource-rich countries grow slower than others. But it has been suggested that Norway may be an important exc...

Mean-spread-preserving transformations

Discussion Papers no. 360

Publisert: 20. oktober 2003

Financial deregulation and household saving

Discussion Papers no. 361

Publisert: 20. oktober 2003

Mean-spread-preserving transformations

Discussion Papers no. 360

Publisert: 20. oktober 2003

The purpose of this paper is to define various mean-spread-preserving transformations, which can be considered as generalized versions of the mean-Gini-preserving transformation. The mean-Gini-preserving transformation, which was introduc...

Financial deregulation and household saving

Discussion Papers no. 361

Publisert: 20. oktober 2003

I use new micro data to study the effects of credit deregulation on the Norwegian household savings decline in the mid-1980s. This paper has three main findings. First, the decline in saving started in 1983, a couple of years earlier than...

Coal cleaning

Discussion Papers no. 356

Publisert: 14. oktober 2003

Technological changes in the pulp and paper industry and the role of uniform versus selective environmental policy

Discussion Papers no. 357

Publisert: 14. oktober 2003