Formålet med min masteroppgave har vært å undersøke om det lokale partiprogrammet brukes til vote buying i Norge. Målet med oppgaven var å undersøke korrelasjonen mellom kommunale utgifter og nærhet til politiske valg i ...

Denne masteroppgaven undersøker prisutviklingen for blokkleiligheter i det norske boligmarkedet i moderne tid. Spesifikt undersøkes boligmarkedet i Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger og Trondheim. Problemstillingen er som følger: ...

Does framing change individual attitudes towards immigration? This thesis analyzes the effect of providing information about the unemployment- and employment rate of immigrants in Norway, as well as information about the ...

The capital flows from bilateral and multilateral donors to developing countries have increased considerably since the start of foreign aid in the 1950s. During the same period, the policies of aid allocation have changed, ...

Given the wide use of child care subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer-run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of child care ...

This paper introduces a new software interface to elicit belief distributions of any shape: Click-and-Drag. The interface was tested against the state of the art in the experimental literature—a text-based interface and ...

We study the incentives of drug producers to develop predictive biomarkers, taking into account strategic interaction between drug producers and health plans. For this purpose, we develop a two-dimensional spatial framework ...

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on its impact on service provision is limited, mainly due to endogeneity issues. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in addition to own ...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the growing literature on competitive effects of overlapping ownership. Overlapping ownership means that competing firms have ownership in each other, this is known as cross-ownership, ...