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10209: Looking Abroad, but Lagging Behind: How the World Technology Frontier Affects South Africa

Jorn Rattso and Torfinn Harding

10109: Efficiency potential and determinants of efficiency: An analysis of the care of elderly sector in Norway

Lars-Erik Borge and Marianne Haraldsvik

10009: Grey power and public budgets: Family altruism helps children, but not elderly

Joern Rattsoe and Rune J. Soerensen

9909: Wage inequality, comparative advantage and skill biased technical change in South Africa

Joern Rattsoe and Hildegunn Stokke

9809: Regional income convergence, skilled migration and productivity response: Explaining relative stagnation in the periphery

Joern Rattsoe and Hildegunn Stokke

9708: Student progression in upper secondary education: The effect of academic ability, gender, and schools

Torberg Falch and Bjarne Stroem

9608: Teacher shortages and the business cycle

Torberg Falch, Kaare Johansen and Bjarne Stroem

9508: Public sector decentralization and school performance: International evidence

Torberg Falch and Justina A. V. Fischer

9408: Multinational supermarket chains in developing countries: Does local agriculture benefit

Hildegunn Stokke

9308: Quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of class size on achievement in Norway

Marte Rønning, Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek

9208: The effect of early cognitive ability on earnings over the life-cycle

Torberg Falch and Sofia Sandgren

9107: Service Production and Patient Satisfaction in Primary Care

Fredrik Carlsen, Jostein Grytten and Irene Skau

9007: Habit formation, strategic extremism and debt policy

Egil Matsen and Øystein Thøgersen

8907: Modern fishing technology and profitability in a second best situation

Anders Skonhoft

8807: Myopic or constrained by balanced-budget-rules? The intertemporal spending behavior of Norwegian local governments

Lars-Erik Borge and Per Tovmo

8707: Optimal Portfolio Choice and Investment in Education

Egil Matsen and Snorre Lindset

8607: Young and old competing for public welfare services

Lars-Erik Borge and Jorn Rattso

8507: Restoring a Fish Stock: A Dynamic Bankruptcy Problem

Anders Skonhoft and Elena Inarra

8407: Public Sector Efficiency: The Roles of Political and Budgetary Institutions, Fiscal Capacity and Democratic Participation

Lars-Erik Borge, Torberg Falch and Per Tovmo

8307: Joker: Choice in a simple game with large stakes

Egil Matsen and Bjarne Strøm

8206: Primary Physicians’ Response to Changes in Fees

Fredrik Carlsen, Jostein Grytten and Irene Skau

8106: Using survey data to study capitalization of local public services

Fredrik Carlsen, Jorn Rattso, Bjørg Langset and Lasse Stambøl

8006: Do local authorities set local fiscal variables to influence population flows?

Fredrik Carlsen

7906: Election cycles, party ideology and incumbent popularity: theory and evidence for OECD economies

Fredrik Carlsen

7806: Centralized or decentralized financing of local governments? Consequences for efficiency and inequality of service provision

Lars-Erik Borge

7706: The silence of the lambs

Anders Skonhoft

7606: Property taxation as incentive for cost control:Empirical evidence for utility services in Norway

Lars-Erik Borge and Jorn Rattso

7506: Constitutions and the resource curse

Jørgen Andersen and Silje Aslaksen

7406: Playing Chicken with Salmon

Jon Olaussen

7306: The effect of education on cognitive ability

Torberg Falch and Sofia Sandgren

7206: Resource Boom, Productivity Growth and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics - A dynamic general equilibrium analysis of South Africa

Hildegunn Stokke

7106: When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia

Ragnar Torvik, James Robinson and Mario Chacón

7006: Economic modeling approaches for wildlife and species conservation

Anders Skonhoft

6906: Operating costs in Norwegian toll companies: A panel data analysis

Gunnar Bårdsen, Erik Amdal, Kåre Johansen and Morten Welde

6806: Evaluation of macroeconomic models for financial stability analysis

Gunnar Bårdsen, Kjersti-Gro Lindquist and Dimitrios Tsomocos

6606: Portfolio Choice when Managers Control Returns

Egil Matsen

6506: Politics in Wage setting: Does government colour matter?

Kåre Johansen, Ørjan Mydland and Bjarne Strøm

6405: The economics of a stage-structured wildlife population model

Jon Olaussen and Anders Skonhoft

6305: Stylized dynamic model representations - a note

Gunnar Bårdsen

6205: Efficiency potential and efficiency variation in Norwegian lower secondary schools

Lars-Erik Borge and Linn Renée Naper

6105: The bioeconomics of a wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) recreational fishery

Jon Olaussen and Anders Skonhoft

6005: Protected areas, wildlife conservation and local welfare

Anne Johannesen

5905: On the Economics of Biological Invasion: An application to recreational fishing

Jon Olaussen

5805: A theory of civil conflict and democracy in rentier states

Silje Aslaksen and Ragnar Torvik

5705: Cursed by resources or institutions?

Halvor Mehlum, Karl Ove Moene and Ragnar Torvik

5605: A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint

James Robinson and Ragnar Torvik

5505: The costs and benefits of animal predation: An analysis of Scandinavian wolf re-colonization

Anders Skonhoft

5405: Monetary policy and asset prices: To respond or not?

Gunnar Bårdsen, Qaisar Akram and Øyvind Eitrheim

5305: Decentralization with Property Taxation to Improve Incentives: Evidence from Local Governments’ Discrete Choice

Jorn Rattso and Jon Fiva

5105: Property Taxation as a Determinant of School District Efficiency

Marte Rønning and Jon Fiva