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172: Dynamic Choice, Multistate Duration Models and Stochastic Structure

John Dagsvik

171: Welfare Effects of Proportional Taxation: Empirical Evidence from Italy, Norway and Sweden

Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino and Steinar Strøm

170: Market Power, International CO2 Taxation and Petroleum Wealth

Elin Berg, Snorre Kverndokk and Knut Einar Rosendahl

169: Some Norwegian Politicians' Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Karine Nyborg

168: Income Inequality and Income Mobility in the Scandinavian Countries Compared to the United States

Rolf Aaberge, Anders Bjorklund, Markus Jantti, Mårten Palme, Peder Pedersen, Nina Smith and Tom Wennemo

167: Consumer Demand with Unobservable Product Attributes - Part II: Inference

John Dagsvik

166: Consumer Demand with Unobservable Product Attributes - Part I: Theory

John Dagsvik

165: Potential Demand for Alternative Fuel Vehicles

John Dagsvik, Dag G. Wetterwald and Rolf Aaberge

164: Soil Wealth in Tanzania

Kjell Arne Brekke, Vegard Iversen and Jens Aune

163: Soil Conservation as an Investment in Land

Sverre Grepperud

162: Poverty, Land Degradation and Climatic Uncertainty

Sverre Grepperud

161: Monopolistic Competition, Resource Allocation and the Effects of Industrial Policy

Torbjørn Hægeland

160: Noisy signals in target zone regimes Theory and Monte Carlo experiments

Steinar Holden, Dag Kolsrud and Birger Vikøren

159: Innovation and Job Creation in a Small Open Economy Evidence from Norwegian Manufacturing Plants 1982-92

Tor Klette and Svein Erik Førre

158: Choosing Measures of Inequality for Empirical Applications

Rolf Aaberge

157: Import Price Formation and Pricing to Market: A Test on Norwegian Data

Bjørn E. Naug and Ragnar Nymoen

156: Financial Deregulation and Consumer Behavior: the Norwegian Experience

Pål Boug, Knut Anton Mork and Trond Tjemsland

155: Some Issues About the Norwegian Capital Income Imputation Model

Karl Ove Aarbu

154: Returns to Publicly Owned Transport Infrastructure Investment. A Cost Function/Cost Share Approach for Norway, 1971-1991

Torstein Bye and Alexandra Katz

153: On the Simultaneous Determination of Current Expenditure, Real Capital, Fee Income, and Public Debt in Norwegian Local Government

Audun Langørgen

152: Forward- and Backward Looking Models for Norwegian Export Prices

Ingvild Svendsen

151: Dynamic Modelling of Domestic Prices with Time-varying Elasticities and Rational Expectations

Ingvild Svendsen

150: Transitory Adjustment Costs and Long Term Welfare Effects of an EU-membership - The Norwegian Case

Einar Bowitz, Taran Fæhn, Leo A. Grünfeld and Knut Moum

149: Distribution of Preferences and Measurement Errors in a Disaggregated Expenditure System+

Jørgen Aasness, Erik Biorn and Terje Skjerpen

148: Welfare Effects of Emission Taxes in Norway

Jørgen Aasness, Torstein Bye and Hans Terje Mysen

147: Effective Rates of Assistance for Norwegian Industries

Erling Holmøy and Torbjørn Hægeland

146: The Distributional Impact of the Norwegian Tax Reform Measured by Disproportionality

Thor Thoresen

145: A Dynamic Equilibrium Analysis of a Carbon Tax

Brita Bye

144: Prospects for a Common, Deregulated Nordic Electricity Market

Torstein Bye and Tor Arnt Johnsen

143: The environmental drag on long- term economic performance: Evidence from Norway

Annegrete Bruvoll, Solveig Glomsrød and Haakon Vennemo

142: Maternal Employment in Norway A parity-specific analysis of the return to full-time and part-time work after birth

Marit Rønsen

141: Probabilistic Choice Models for Uncertain Outcomes

John Dagsvik

140: Is there a Business Cycle Component in Norwegian Macroeconomic Quarterly Time Series?

Terje Skjerpen

139: Aggregation when Markets do not Clear

Leif Andreassen

138: A Framework for Estimating Disequilibrium Models with Many Markets

Leif Andreassen

137: Project Evaluations and Decision Processes

Karine Nyborg

136: Job Creation, Job Destruction and Plant Turnover in Norwegian Manufacturing

Tor Klette and Astrid Mathiassen

135: Distributional and Behavioural Effects of Child Care Subsidies

Thor Thoresen

134: Adjusting NNP for instrumental or defensive expenditures. An analytical approach

Kjell Arne Brekke and Hanne A. Gravningsmyhr

133: R&D, Spillovers and Performance among Heterogenous Firms. An Empirical Study Using Microdata

Tor Klette

132: Testing for Market Power in the Norwegian Primary Aluminium Industry

Kjersti-Gro Lindquist

131: Monetary Aspects of Business Cycles in Norway. An Exploratory Study Based on Historical Data

Leo Andreas Grünfeld

130: Estimating Price- Cost Margins and Scale Economies from a Panel of Microdata

Tor Klette

129: Testing Rational Expectations in Vector Autoregressive Models

Soren Johansen and Anders Rygh Swensen

128: Carbon Taxes and the Petroleum Wealth

Knut Einar Rosendahl

127: The Inconsistency of Common Scales Estimators when Output Prices are Unobserved and Endogenous

Tor Klette and Zvi Griliches

126: Do Norwegian Firms Form Exptrapolative Expectations?

Ingvild Svendsen

125: Errors in Variables and Panel Data: The Labour Demand Response to Permanent Changes in Output

Erik Biorn and Tor Klette

124: Criminometrics, Latent Variables, Panel Data, and Different Types of Crime

Jørgen Aasness, Erling Eide and Terje Skjerpen

123: On Equity and Public Pricing in Developing Countries

Klaus Mohn

122: Effective Rates of Assistance for Norwegian Industries

Erling Holmøy, Torbjørn Hægeland and Øystein Olsen

121: A Generalization of Hall's Specification of the Consumption function

Yngve Willassen

120: R&D, Scope Economies and Company Structure: A "Not-so-Fixed Effect" Model of Plant Performance

Tor Klette

119: Sufficient Welfare Indicators Allowing Disagreement in Evaluations of Social Welfare

Kjell Arne Brekke, Hilde Lurås and Karine Nyborg

118: Utilitarism, Equivalence Scales and Logarithmic Utility

Kjell Arne Brekke

117: A Macromodel of Local Government Spending Behaviour in Norway

Audun Langørgen

116: Car ownership decisions in Norwegian households

Anne Brendemoen

115: The Future Burden of Public Pension Benefits A Microsimulation Study

Leif Andreassen, Dennis Fredriksen and Olav Ljones

114: Does Improved Environmental Policy Enhance Economic Growth? Endogenous Growth Theory Applied to Developing Countries

Knut Einar Rosendahl

113: Car Ownership and Private Car Use A Microeconometric Analysis Based on Norwegian Data

Dag G. Wetterwald

112: Correlated Measurement Errors, Bounds on Parameters, and a Model of Producer Behavior

Yngve Willassen and Tor Klette

111: Foreign Control and Norwegian Manufacturing Performance

Margaret J. Simpson

110: The Volatility of Oil Wealth under Uncertainty about Parameter Values

Kjell Arne Brekke and Pål Børing

109: Investment and Financial Constraints An Empirical Analysis of Norwegian Firms

Frode Johansen

108: Precautionary Saving and Old-Age Pensions

Knut A. Magnussen

107: Depletion of Fossil Fuels and the impact of Global Warming

Snorre Kverndokk