Browsing BI Research Centre's Series by Title
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The Study of European Union Politics in the UK and Ireland
(CEAS Reports;2/2012, Working paper, 2012)This is a working paper version of a paper written for SENT - The Network of European Studies. The working paper provides an overview of the development of the British and Irish literature on the EU, from the early debates ... -
The study of the European Union from outside: European integration studies in Norway and Iceland 1990-2010
(CEAS Reports;1/2012, Working paper, 2012)This is a working paper version of a paper written for SENT - The Network of European Studies. The aim of this chapter is to map the research on European integration carried out by Norwegian and Icelandic researchers and ... -
The Value of News
(CAMP Working Paper Series;6/2015, Working paper, 2015)We decompose a major business newspaper according to the topics it writes about, and show that the topics have predictive power for key economic variables and, especially noteworthy, for asset prices. Unexpected ... -
The world is not enough! Small open economies and regional dependence
(CAMP Working Paper Series;3/2011, Working paper, 2011)This paper bridges the new open economy factor augmented VAR (FAVAR) studies with the recent findings in the business cycle synchronization literature emphasizing the importance of regional factors. That is, we estimate ... -
Ti dager i Amerika
(CME Working paper series;1/1999, Working paper, 1999) -
Time-Varying Trend Models for Forecasting Inflation in Australia
(CAMP Working Paper Series;09/2020, Working paper, 2020-11-18)We investigate whether a class of trend models with various error term structures can improve upon the forecast performance of commonly used time series models when forecasting CPI inflation in Australia. The main result ... -
To Structure Political Conflict: the Institutionalisation of Referendums on European Integration in the Nordic Countries
(CEAS Reports;1/2007, Working paper, 2007)This is a paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions of Workshops, Helsinki, May 7-12, 2007. -
Trenger Norge en valutakurspolitikk?
(CME Working paper series;3/2003, Working paper, 2003)Med dette notatet vil vi invitere til en diskusjon om behovet for en valutakurspolitikk i Norge. Er det mulig med en egen valutakurspolitikk? Er det ønskelig med en norsk valutakurspolitikk? Om man på begge disse to ... -
Ulikhetens pris
(CME Working Papers;2/2014, Working paper, 2014)Mye av de økonomiske ulikhetene i USA skyldes finansmarkedenes virkemåte, og hvordan toppledere mer generelt har klart å ta ut en stadig økende andel av verdiskapningen, hevder professor Joseph E. Stiglitz i boken The Price ... -
Uncertainty and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
(CAMP Working Paper Series;12/2023, Working paper, 2023-10-13)We present a new stylized fact about the link between uncertainty and the term structure of interest rates: Unexpectedly heightened uncertainty elicits a lower, steeper, and flatter yield curve. This result is established ... -
Unveiling inflation: Oil Shocks, Supply Chain Pressures, and Expectations
(CAMP Working Paper Series;05/2024, Working paper, 2024-07-05)This paper demonstrates that inflation expectations have acted as significant amplifiers of recent global demand and supply shocks, thereby playing a crucial role in maintaining inflation at relatively high levels. This ... -
Uro
(CME Working paper series;7/2007, Working paper, 2007)Aarbeidsnotatet er satt sammen av Månedsbrevet til Arne Jon Isachsen for juli-desember 2007. Månedsbrevet består av 6 ulike artikler. -
Using Brokerage Commissions to Secure IPO Allocations
(CCGR Working Paper;4/2010, Working paper, 2010)Using data, at the investor level, on the allocations of shares in initial public offerings (IPOs), we document a strong positive relationship between the amount of stock-trading commission and the number of shares an ... -
Using Entropic Tilting to Combine BVAR Forecasts with External Nowcasts
(CAMP Working Paper Series;8/2015, Working paper, 2015)This paper shows entropic tilting to be a flexible and powerful tool for combining mediumterm forecasts from BVARs with short-term forecasts from other sources (nowcasts from either surveys or other models). Tilting ... -
Utenrikspolitiske refleksjoner
(CME Working paper series;5/2007, Working paper, 2007)Aarbeidsnotatet er satt sammen av Månedsbrevet til Arne Jon Isachsen for januar-juni 2007. Månedsbrevet består av 6 ulike artikler. -
Den vanskelige valutakursen
(CME Working paper series;7/2002, Working paper, 2002) -
Verdens rikeste land
(CME Working paper series;6/2006, Working paper, 2006)Arbeidsnotatet er satt sammen av Månedsbrevet til Arne Jon Isachsen for januar-juni 2006. Månedsbrevet består av 6 ulike artikler. -
Voting When the Stakes Are High
(CAMP Working Paper Series;8/2013, Working paper, 2013)Most theories of voter behavior predict that electoral participation will be higher in elections where more is at stake. We test this prediction by studying how participation is affected by exogenous variation in local ... -
Washington D.C. - oktober 2001
(CME Working paper series;6/2001, Working paper, 2001) -
What drives oil prices? Emerging versus developed economies
(CAMP Working Paper Series;2/2012, Working paper, 2012)We analyze the importance of demand from emerging and developed economies as drivers of the real price of oil over the last two decades. Using a factor-augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) model that allows us to ...