interested in studying the shadow economy?
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Interested in studying the shadow economy? (also called: underground economy, black economy, informal economy)
In shadow markets , transactions are legal but hidden from the authorities to avoid taxes and regulations. Many aspects of such markets are still poorly understood, such as:
• Why isn’t the shadow sector larger in high-tax countries such as the Scandinavian?
• What factors determines the size of the shadow economy? • How does shadow markets affect efficiency? • To what extent do regular firms participate in shadow activities?
If you are interested in studying problems related to the shadow economy, contact:
Tone Ognedal, [email protected]
Velferdsstat og reformanalyse• Hovedfokus: Hvordan virker politikk på utfall og fordeling?
– velferdsstaten spesielt– politikk/politikkendringer kan avsløre generelle årsakssammenhenger– ulike mulige metoder: deskriptivt, strukturelt, redusert form
• Hovedmetode: empiriske analyser med fokus på å avsløre kausale sammenhenger– instrumentvariabel– forskjeller-i-forskjeller– diskontinuitetsanalyser– reformevaluering– spesielt interessert i metoder som tillater heterogenitet i effektene
• Quantile/marginal treatment effects, DiNardo-dekomponering
- TARJEI HAVNES [email protected]
Eksempler på prosjekter• Hva er effekten av klassestørrelse på karakterer? Hvordan varierer denne
på tvers av elever?• Hvordan virker innholdet i barnehagen på læringsutbytte til barna?
Strukturelle faktorer (ansatte, utdanning, gruppestørrelse, antall timer) eller andre faktorer (pedagogisk program, el.)?
• Hvordan har inntektsulikheten endret seg over tid? Hva påvirker inntektsulikhet?
• Hvordan påvirker avkastningen i pensjonspoeng arbeidstilbudet? Hva er effekten av den nyinnførte pensjonsreformen?
• Hva påvirker etterspørselen etter offentlige tjenester? Hvordan påvirker ulikhet i offentlige tjenester flytting mellom kommunene?
• Hva er effekten av økt tilgang til alkohol på vold og helse lokalt?• Hvordan endrer internett effektiviteten i bedriftene?• Hvordan er utviklingen i bedriftenes investeringer påvirket av tilgangen på
kompetent arbeidskraft?
- TARJEI HAVNES [email protected]
NINA (www.nina.no) coordinates an EU project entitled: “Assessing the role of economic instruments in policy mixes for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision” (http://policymix.nina.no/).
NINA is looking for a competent environmental economics student as part of the Norwegian case study.
The thesis could be written under the following broad themes:
– Use of quantitiative impact evaluation tools to assess the impacts of voluntary forest conservation
– Estimation of opportunity costs of different land uses as input into forest reserve site selection models optimising the combinations of low costs and high biological values.
– Applications of environmental valuation methods (contingent valuation, choice experiments or other methods)
– Assessment of efficiency and effectiveness of new economic instruments for forest conservation (payment for ecosystem services, auctions, ecological compensation schemes to municipalities)
– Assessment of distributional/equity impacts of conservation policies
The project will cover some costs and data collection and option for a desk at NINA at CIENS (right across the bridge from Blindern). There may be options for paid work on other porjects.
If interested, contact Henrik Lindhjem ([email protected]) or David Barton ([email protected]).
Master project in environmental economics in coop. with Norwegian
Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
Mulig Masterprosjekt i miljøøkonomi i samarbeid med NINA
NINA (www.nina.no) leder et EU-prosjekt med tittel: “Assessing the role of economic instruments in policy mixes for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision” (http://policymix.nina.no/).
NINA søker en dyktig miljøøkonomistudent til masteroppgave som del av et norsk case. Casearbeidet pågår fra våren 2011 til 2013, men masteroppgave kan tilpasses innenfor perioden.
Konkret problemstilling utformes i samarbeid med studenten, men vil være innenfor følgende temaer:
– Bruk av ”impact evaluation” metoder for å vurdere effekten av frivillige verneordningen for skog
– Beregning av alternativkostnader for ulike typer arealbruk som verktøy for å finne verneområder med den beste kombinasjonen av høye biologiske verdier og lave kostnader.
– Anvendelse av miljøverdsettingsmetoder (for eksempel betinget verdsetting, valgeksperimenter)
– Vurdering av nye virkemidler, som verneauksjoner, overføringer til kommuner/fylker osv
– Beregning av økonomiske fordelingseffekter av vernepolitikk
Prosjektet dekker kostnader, noe datainnsamling og mulighet for kontorplass. Det vil også være muligheter for å bidra lønnet på andre prosjekter. Oppgaven vil biveiledes av NINA.
Hvis interessert, kontakt Henrik Lindhjem ([email protected]) eller David Barton ([email protected]).
Institutt for samfunnsforskningInstitute for social research
• Independent research institute: www.samfunnsforskning.no
• Staff: Sociologists, political scientists, and economists
• Field of research: The labour market and education• Empirically oriented research. Micro studies. Register data and surveydata.
• Examples of research areas: Integration of immigrants in the labour market, migration (domestically and internationally), wage differences between men and women, return to education, effects of labour market programmes for unemployed; demand for different types of labour, sickness absence, school-labour market transitions, impacts of family policy on labour supply, social interaction and norms in the labour market.
• Contact person Pål Schøne: 23086182, [email protected]
Norwegian Instituteof International
Affairs
NorskUtenrikspolitiskInstitutt
Department of International Economics
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
ØI Master students meeting, February 2011
Norwegian Instituteof International
Affairs
NorskUtenrikspolitiskInstitutt
Main areas of research at the Department• International economics:
Key topics: international trade and FDI; firm heterogeneity; international and regional inequality; China and India. Contact person: Arne Melchior
• Economics of innovation: Key topics: R&D and technological innovation; knowledge spillovers; growth models Contact person: Fulvio Castellacci
• Institutional and development economics: Key topics: corruption; comparative economic systems; public procurement; CSR Contact person: Jens Andvig
• Agricultural and veterinary economics: Key topics: animal health; value chain analysis; complex system modelling Contact person: Karl Rich
Norwegian Instituteof International
Affairs
NorskUtenrikspolitiskInstitutt
Hosting UIO’s Master students in economics
• The Department has hosted several UIO’s Master students in the past, and it would be happy to host more in the future
• We have the capacity and infrastructure to host up to 3-4 Master students per year
• The Department staff can possibly provide supervision, provided that the Master thesis topics are related to the four core areas mentioned above
• Interested students should contact the Department staff (see contact persons above)
• Students that are accepted will spend an internship period at NUPI to write their Master theses.
• Possibly, scholarships can be offered to some of the students to work as assistants on some of the Department’s existing projects
Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis
Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES)
Centre of Excellence at the Department of Biology
135 researchers, technical and adminstrative staff from 26 nations
Studying a wide range of topics including
Sequencing the cod genome
Emergence of new species
Statistical analysis of fossil records
Marine ecology and fisheries management
Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis
Bio-economic research
Questions we are working on include: What are the economic consequences if harvesting
leads to an evolutionary response of the fish? How much – and at what age should Arcto-Norwegian
cod (torsk) be caught each year? Do social norms among fishermen help or hinder any
management attempts by the government?
Possible topics for a master thesis could be: How might climate change influence the harvesting
game between Russia and Norway in the Barents Sea? How are fleet dynamics influenced by the social and
natural environment?
Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis
Interested? Further info?
Take a look at the website:
www.cees.uio.no
Write an e-mail to:
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Research Department at Statistics NorwayResearch areas and units• Energy and environmental economics
– Environmental economics (Taran Fæhn, [email protected])– Energy economics (Mads Greaker, [email protected] / Brita Bye, [email protected])
• Macroeconomics– Macroeconomics (Roger Bjørnstad, [email protected])
• Microeconomics– Microeconomics (Rolf Aaberge, [email protected])– Public economics (Nils Martin Stølen, [email protected])
• Social and demographic research– Social and demographic research (Kjetil Telle, [email protected])
• Statistical methods and standards*– Statistical methods and standards (Jan Bjørnstad, [email protected])
Web pages: English: http://www.ssb.no/english/researchNorwegian: http://www.ssb.no/forskning
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Unit for MacroeconomicsResearch fields• Time-series econometrics
– Econometrics combines economic theory and statistics in the analysis and testing of economic relations. Time series econometrics brings the temporal dimension into play, enabling a distinction between short and longer-term relations between economic variables.
• Macro econometric modelling– Macro econometric modelling combines various econometric analyses of time series.
Furthermore, the macro econometric models have input-output relations connecting the model’s product supply to its applications. There is an emphasis on using the conceptual and definitional terminology used for the national accounts.
• Business cycle analysis and forecast– Macroeconomic models and other methods are used to shed light on driving forces in the
Norwegian economy over the short and medium term. Business cycle reports, including normally three- or four-year forecast, are published quarterly in Economic Survey. Analyses of historical developments are also conducted at irregular intervals.
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Unit for MacroeconomicsMaster thesis• Recent topics
– The housing market– Private consumption– Oil investments (searching)– Forecasting business cycle using the Business tendency survey
• Payed/unpayed
• Interested?– www.ssb.no/forskning og www.ssb.no/english/research– Contact Roger Bjørnstad, [email protected]
Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskningRagnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
www.frisch.uio.no
Writing your Master’s thesis at the Frisch
Centre
Simen Markussen
Frisch Centre
The Frisch Centre
• An independent Research institute founded by the University of Oslo 1. January 1999
• Main research topics– Labour market, education, social benefits, pensions– Energy and environment– Entrepeneurship– Health economics and efficiency analysis
• Theoretical and empirical research, but emphasis on empirical work– Norwegian administrative data– Earnings, education, family, sick leave, disability etc.
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Masters thesis at the Frisch Centre
• Student assistant– Announcements on our webpage from time to time (one
now, apply before Feb. 25th)– Typical:
• 3 months pay but flexible hours• Assisting with data work on some project• Use these data to write a thesis• Shared office at the Frisch Centre
• Other affiliation– If you have an idea, check our project list for a relevant project and
send an email with a description of your topic to the project responsible or to [email protected]
– Shared office at the Frisch centre, if available