Literature review

Dette arbeidsnotatet er en samling av Arne Jon Isachsens "Månedsbrevet" fra årets seks første måneder. Følgende artikler er inkludert i notatet: 1) På vandring; 2) Hva er luksus?; 3) Bjørnen sover, eller…?; 4) LTRO; 5) ...

We aim to explain petro populism|the excessive use of oil revenues to buy political support. To reap the full gains of natural resource income politicians need to remain in office over time. Hence, even a rent-seeking ...

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a valuable contribution to the history of wealth and income distribution. But Piketty’s theory about wealth and income distribution as encapsulate in his laws ...

Cryptocurrencies have recently gained a lot of interest from investors, central banks and governments worldwide. The lack of any form of political regu- lation and their market far from being “efficient”, require new forms ...

Literature review

This paper proposes a novel asymmetric continuous probabilistic score (ACPS) for evaluating and comparing density forecasts. It extends the proposed score and defines a weighted version, which emphasizes regions of interest, ...

We propose a novel and numerically efficient quantification approach to forecast uncertainty of the real price of oil using a combination of probabilistic individual model forecasts. Our combination method extends earlier ...

This report, ‘Recommendations for the Sharing Economy: (Re-)Balancing Power’, forms one element of a European Union Horizon 2020 Research Project on the sharing economy: Ps2Share ‘Participation, Privacy, and Power in the ...