Browsing Handelshøyskolen BI by Subject "samfunnsøkonomi economics"
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Consumption inequality and publicly prouided seruices from local gouemment
(Master thesis, 2022)This study aims to identify how consumption inequality has evolved and how in-kind transfers, or publicly provided services, from local governments affect the level and trend in consumption inequality. We have imputed ... -
Do loan-to-value requirements matter for local house prices in Norway?
(Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis we look at the effect of loan-to-value (LTV) requirements on the Norwegian housing market during 2010-2013. We test how and to what extend this macroprudential policy would affect local areas with typically ... -
The Effect of Environmental Policy Stringency on Dry Bulk Shipping Rates
(Master thesis, 2022)The shipping industry transports 90% of world trade, according to the International Chamber of Shipping. As climate change and sustainability becomes increasingly more topical, this industry’s pollution levels are now being ... -
The Effect of Monetary Policy on Income-specific Inflation Rates in Norway
(Master thesis, 2022)The goal of this master thesis has been to find out whether monetary policy has heterogeneous effects across the income distribution through the inflation channel in Norway. We find that the households at the bottom 5 ... -
Free Trade Agreement between China & Norway : An Empirical Study on the Effect of a Free Trade Agreement between Norway and China
(Master thesis, 2022)This master thesis investigates the potential effects of the proposed free trade agreement implemented between China and Norway on bilateral trade flows. A fixed-effect regression technique with a basis in the gravity ... -
How a great customer experience can drive your prices : a cross-country study
(Master thesis, 2012-09-25)Over the past couple of years, practitioners and marketing researchers have begun to discuss the concept ―customer experience. Pine and Gilmore (1999) state that there has been a shift in the marketing literature and that ... -
How big are multipliers related to public and private oil investments in Norway?
(Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis, we estimate Keynesian investment multipliers related to public and private oil investment in Norway, employing a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) approach. Our baseline SVAR model is composed of four ... -
How did Covid-19 effect Norwegian household consumption?
(Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis, I investigate the effect the Covid-19 pandemic had on the Norwegian household consumption. The objective is to discover what changed or did not change through the pandemic in Norway and also see if some of ... -
The Importance of Trust during COVID-19
(Master thesis, 2022)It is well established that trust benefits societies in numerous ways, contributing to cooperation, economic growth, and higher quality of institutions. What is less known is the role of trust in crises, where societies ... -
Is the Electricity Market Efficient? - An Investigation of the Norwegian Electricity Market
(Master thesis, 2022)The electricity retailing market has been brought to attention recently for gaining massive revenues and confusing consumers in its pricing settings. This paper intends to examine the efficiency in the electricity end-user ... -
Money in Norwegian Politics: How does political representation at the national level affect the funding of local party organizations?
(Master thesis, 2022)Money in Norwegian politics is often perceived as not as prominent as in other countries such as the United States. Is the funding in Norway anything related to the elections? This master thesis examines if there exists a ... -
Moral hazard and adverse selection in delegated portfolio management
(Master thesis, 2013-02-18)We investigate the investor-manager relationship in a partial equilibrium principal agent model. The industry for the delegated portfolio management is characterized by information asymmetry on many different levels. ... -
Oil Price Shocks and the Stock Market
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What Drives the Output Gap in Norway? Evidence from a multivariate Beveridge-Nelson decomposition
(Master thesis, 2022)We estimate the trend and cycle of real GDP in Norway using a multivariate Beveridge–Nelson decomposition with a large information set. This method allows us to identify a small collection of variables that are major ...