• Housing careers, house price dispersion and the housing market multiplier 

  Borgersen, Trond-Arne (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2012:7, Working paper, 2012-10-11)

  Housing markets reflect our housing consumption profile over the life cycle. As we age, marry and have kids, we seek larger dwellings and to a greater extent owner-occupied housing. The up-trading process has two key ...

• Born at the wrong time?: The effects of the 2004 Minority Education Reform on pupil performance in Latvia 

  Ivļevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2011:12, Working paper, 2012-10-01)

  One quarter of all schoolchildren in Latvia go to the publicly funded minority (predominantly Russian) schools. In 2004, the language of instruction in minority schools was changed from essentially minority language to a ...

• A comment on LTV, risk and incentives in mortgage markets 

  Borgersen, Trond-Arne; Greibrokk, Jørund (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2012:4, Working paper, 2012-08-29)

  This paper comments on the increase in LTV ratios experienced in a number of countries in the years preceding the financial crisis. Highlighting the capital structure of housing investments and the excess return to housing ...

• Together or apart?: Attitudes towards multi-ethnic state and ethnically mixed communities in post-independence Kosovo 

  Ivļevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2011:11, Working paper, 2012-06-29)

  The success of Kosovo as an independent and multi-ethnic state depends crucially on the ability and willingness of different ethnic groups to live and work together. We explore the attitudes towards multi-ethnic state and ...

• Gender, ethnicity and migration?: Explaining aspirations to join the EU in post-independence Kosovo 

  Ivļevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2011:10, Working paper, 2012-06-29)

  We explore the attitudes towards joining the EU in post-independence Kosovo, focussing particularly on the potential role of gender, ethnicity and migration. The study is based on a survey of 1367 respondents carried out ...

• Equity induced up-trading and the housing market structure: Implications for Price-to-Income (PTI) and macroprudential interventions 

  Borgersen, Trond-Arne (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2012:3, Working paper, 2012-06-27)

  This paper relates the housing market structure and the intensity of equity induced up-trading between market segments to the equilibrium ratio between house prices and household income (PTI-ratio). When fed back into the ...

• Finansielle akseleratorer i boligmarkedet: En kortsiktstilnærming med utgangspunkt i belåningsgrad og belåningsgevinst 

  Borgersen, Trond Arne; Kivedal, Bjørnar Karlsen (Working paper, 2012-03-06)

  Denne artikkelen ser nærmere på sammenhengen mellom belåningsgraden (Loan-to-value (LTV)) og belåningsgevinsten i husholdningenes boliginvesteringer. Siden 1992 har prisutviklingen i det norske boligmarkedet gitt betydelige ...

• Pris- og belåningsgevinster i husholdningenes boligformue 

  Borgersen, Trond-Arne; Kivedal, Bjørnar Karlsen (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2011:9, Working paper, 2011-12-21)

  Siden 1992 har prisutviklingen i det norske boligmarkedet gitt betydelige formuesgevinster for boligeierne. Ettersom boliginvesteringer ofte lånefinansieres inkluderer formuesgevinsten potensielt også en belåningsgevinst. ...

• Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity in Academia 

  King, Roswitha M (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2011:7, Working paper, 2011-12-06)

• Conversations with civil servants: East European public administration reform in search of socio-economic development 

  King, Roswitha M (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2011:8, Working paper, 2011-12-06)

• Boligpriser, formueseffekter og endringer i boliglånsmarkedet 

  Borgersen, Trond-Arne; Greibrokk, Jørund (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2011:4, Working paper, 2011-08-29)

  Denne artikkelen knytter formueseffektene som følger fra økte boligpriser opp mot viktige endringer i det norske boliglånsmarkedet de siste 10 årene. To aspekter belyses: For det første hvordan boligmarkedsklatring gjør ...

• When Balassa-Samuelson comes to Maastricht: debt-sustainability, growth and transition 

  Borgersen, Trond-Arne; King, Roswitha M (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2011:3, Working paper, 2011-08-16)

  A dynamic stability approach is applied to show how the debt-servicing ability of transition/developing economies exceeds that of mature market economies. At the core of this debt-servicing advantage lies not only ...

• Continuity and change in stakeholder regimes: reflections on methods and methodology 

  Bjørkquist, Catharina (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2010:5, Working paper, 2010-12-15)

  For many years, universities have been regarded as operating isolated from their socioeconomic and political environment. However, there is now a demand for universities to verify their relevance to society. This paper ...

• Housing careers, P/R-ratios and rental equivalence 

  Borgersen, Trond-Arne; Sommervoll, Dag einar (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2010:4, Working paper, 2010-11-16)

  This paper analyses price-rent ratios under different housing career structures. A housing market with three segments for owner-occupation and a segment with rental housing is applied while a housing career is characterised ...

• A comment on mortgage procyclicality 

  Borgersen, Trond-Arne; Robertsen, Karl (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2010:3, Working paper, 2010-09-06)

  This paper comments on mortgage procyclicality. A framework for credit constraints along the lines of Kiyotaki and Moore (1997) illustrates the potential regime shift in the credit risk assessments of mortgagees. Depending ...

• Das skandinavische Modell heute: ein Beispiel moderner keynesianischer Wirtschaftpolitik? 

  Schewe, Theo (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold);2010:2, Working paper, 2010-04-19)

  Die Anfänge einer als „skandinavisches Modell“ bezeichneten Wirtschaftspolitik liegen in den dreißiger Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts. Bereits damals wurden insbesondere in Schweden und Norwegen unter der politisch-ideologischen ...

• Balassa-Samuelson: still haven't found what we're looking for? 

  Borgersen, Trond-Arne; King, Roswitha M. (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold), Working paper, 2009-10-07)

  Despite its strong theoretical position when it comes to explaining inflation in transition economies, the empirical merits of the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) effect are weak. This paper points to three theory-based contributing ...

• Selvforsterkende effekter i bolig- og kredittmarkeder 

  Borgersen, Trond-Arne; Hungnes, Håvard (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold), Working paper, 2009-03-27)

  Denne artikkelen analyserer sammenhengene mellom husholdningenes gjeld, disponibel inntekt og boligprisutviklingen over perioden 1987-2008. Boliglån utgjør 90 prosent av husholdningenes samlede gjeld, og innvilges på ...

• Inflation in Latvia: how real is it? 

  Borgersen, Trond-Arne; King, Roswitha M. (Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold), Working paper, 2009-02-16)

  This paper applies and extends the Scandinavian Model of Inflation for analysing determinants of inflation in Latvia. In recent years high inflation has been a persistent problem for advocates of Latvian participation in ...

• Are the traditional trade-exchange rate theorems relevant for developing countries facing entry costs in international markets? 

  Borgersen, Trond-Arne (Arbeidsrapport (høgskolen i Østfold), Working paper, 2008-12-01)

  This paper investigates the relevance of traditional trade-exchange rate theo- rem for developing countries facing sunk entry costs in international markets. First the theorems analysing pricing of tradable goods and the ...

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