Nasjonalregnskap og konjunkturer: Discussion Papers

A stochastic model for the utility of income

Discussion Papers no. 358

Publisert: 14. oktober 2003

Indirect social sanctions from monetarily unaffected strangers in a public good game

Discussion Papers no. 359

Publisert: 14. oktober 2003

Corporate environmental protection under uncertainty

Discussion Papers no. 355

Publisert: 14. oktober 2003

A stochastic model for the utility of income

Discussion Papers no. 358

Publisert: 14. oktober 2003

In this paper we propose a particular approach to measuring utility of income. To this end we develop a theoretical framework that restricts the class of admissible functional forms and distributions of the random components of the model....

Corporate environmental protection under uncertainty

Discussion Papers no. 355

Publisert: 14. oktober 2003

Investment in pollution prevention technologies are often made under significant uncertainty about the future pay-off from the investments. However, as time passes some of the uncertainties may be resolved by new information, implying tha...

Coal cleaning

Discussion Papers no. 356

Publisert: 14. oktober 2003

China is a dominant energy consumer in a global context and current energy forecasts emphasise that China's future energy consumption also will rely heavily on coal. The coal use is the major source of the greenhouse gas CO2 and particles...

Indirect social sanctions from monetarily unaffected strangers in a public good game

Discussion Papers no. 359

Publisert: 14. oktober 2003

Several economists have maintained that social sanctions can enforce cooperation in public good situations. This experimental study investigates whether indirect social sanctions from monetarily unaffected observers can increase contribut...

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

Although environmental regulations may imply a cost increase on firm's conventional input factors, such regulations could stimulate the incentives to improve factor productivity. Productivity measures including indicators capturing enviro...

A cohort analysis of household saving in Norway

Discussion Papers no. 354

Publisert: 1. september 2003

A cohort analysis of household saving in Norway

Discussion Papers no. 354

Publisert: 1. september 2003

Are there generational differences in saving behavior? On the basis of new micro data for household saving in Norway I find that differences between birth cohorts are small and statistically insignificant. In particular, cohort effects ar...

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

Discussion Papers no. 353

Publisert: 30. august 2003

On the price and volume effects from green certificates in the energy market

Discussion Papers no. 351

Publisert: 20. juni 2003

We present a model for an energy market that includes a green certificate for suppliers of energy from renewables and a purchaser commitment to buy these certificates. We show that price and volume effects in the energy market are ambigou...

Aggregate industry behaviour in a monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms

Discussion Papers no. 352

Publisert: 19. juni 2003

Aggregate industry behaviour in a monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms

Discussion Papers no. 352

Publisert: 19. juni 2003

The paper analyses how a tractable representation of productivity heterogeneity among firms modifies the standard Dixit-Stiglitz (DS) model of monopolistic competition. The properties of the asymmetric model are explored by comparative st...

On the price and volume effects from green certificates in the energy market

Discussion Papers no. 351

Publisert: 20. mai 2003