Nasjonalregnskap og konjunkturer: Discussion Papers

Willingness to pay for dental fear treatment

Discussion Papers no. 334

Publisert: 22. november 2002

Willingness to pay for dental fear treatment

Discussion Papers no. 334

Publisert: 22. november 2002

The aim of this paper is to discuss the social desirability of a treatment program for patients with dental fear. The program consisted of three different fear treatments, cognitive therapy, applied relaxation or nitrous oxide sedation, a...

Small continuous surveys and the Kalman filter

Discussion Papers no. 333

Publisert: 20. november 2002

Small continuous surveys and the Kalman filter

Discussion Papers no. 333

Publisert: 20. november 2002

The time series nature of repeated surveys is seldom taken into account. I present a statistical model of repeated surveys and construct a computationally feasible estimator based on the Kalman filter. The novelty is that the estimator ef...

Eco-labels, production related externalities and trade

Discussion Papers no. 332

Publisert: 14. oktober 2002

Eco-labels, production related externalities and trade

Discussion Papers no. 332

Publisert: 14. oktober 2002

We analyze the trade and welfare effects of eco-labels in a domestic market with one domestic firm and one foreign firm. Pollution is production related, and the government can choose between including the product category in an eco-label...

Labor market modeling recognizing latent job attributes and opportunity constraints

Discussion Papers no. 331

Publisert: 27. september 2002

Labor market modeling recognizing latent job attributes and opportunity constraints

Discussion Papers no. 331

Publisert: 27. september 2002

This paper analyzes labor market behavior of urban Eritrean women with particular reference to the impact of education, earnings and labor market opportunities. Unlike traditional models of labor supply, which assume that work can be supp...

Identification, estimation and testing in Panel Data Models with attrition

Discussion Papers no. 330

Publisert: 23. september 2002

Identification, estimation and testing in Panel Data Models with attrition

Discussion Papers no. 330

Publisert: 23. september 2002

This paper discusses identification, estimation and testing in panel data models with attrition. We focus on a situation which often occurs in the analysis of firms: Attrition (exit) is endogenous and depends on the outcomes of an observe...

Voting rules and endogenous trading institutions

Discussion Papers no. 328

Publisert: 12. september 2002

The Duhem-Quine thesis and experimental economics

Discussion Papers no. 329

Publisert: 12. september 2002

The Duhem-Quine thesis and experimental economics

Discussion Papers no. 329

Publisert: 12. september 2002

The Duhem-Quine thesis asserts that any empirical evaluation of a theory is in fact a composite test of several interconnected hypotheses. Recalcitrant evidence signals falsity within the conjunction of hypotheses, but logic alone cannot ...

Voting rules and endogenous trading institutions

Discussion Papers no. 328

Publisert: 12. september 2002

This paper reports on recurring laboratory elections in which buyers and sellers choose institutional rules to govern a subsequent trading round. The bid auction (buyers propose prices), offer auction (sellers suggest prices) and double a...

A laboratory stress-test of bid, double and offer auctions

Discussion Papers no. 327

Publisert: 5. september 2002