Browsing Avdeling for økonomi, språk og samfunnsfag (gjelder til og med 2020) by Title
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A comment on LTV, risk and incentives in mortgage markets
(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 ... -
A new Keynesian framework and wage and price dynamics in the USA
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper investigates theoretical implications from a new Keynesian model focusing on the labor market, by imposing them as testable restrictions in an estimated vector error correction model on US data from 1982Q3 to ... -
Administrasjon og ledelse av grunnskoler og barnehager i Hvaler kommune
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Arbetarkollektivet i dag – ny studie och teoretisk utveckling
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-28)Sverre Lysgaards teori om arbetarkollektivet är fortfarande en inflytelserik klassiker inom skandinavisk arbetslivsforskning. Lysgaards studie genomfördes i en massa- och pappersfabrik på 1950-talet och Jonas Axelsson, Jan ... -
Are the traditional trade-exchange rate theorems relevant for developing countries facing entry costs in international markets?
(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 ... -
Auf die Geschichte projiziert : Doris Gerckes Bella-Block-Romane
(Chapter, 2003)Gegenstand des Artikels ist Doris Gerckes inzwischen 12 Bände umfassende Reihe (entstanden in den Jahren 1988-2002) über die private Ermittlerin und ehemalige Hamburger Polizistin Bella Block. Das Hauptgewicht liegt auf ... -
Avenir et climat : représentations de l’avenir dans des blogs francophones portant sur le changement climatique
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Cet article explore la manière dont l’avenir est perçu dans des blogs portant sur les changements climatiques, extraits du corpus NTAP (Networks of Text and People). L’analyse, principalement entreprise dans une perspective ... -
Balassa-Samuelson: still haven't found what we're looking for?
(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 ... -
Boligpriser, formueseffekter og endringer i boliglånsmarkedet
(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 ... -
Born at the wrong time?: The effects of the 2004 Minority Education Reform on pupil performance in Latvia
(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 ... -
“…but, it’s really grown on me, Storyline, as practical as it has been’: A critical inquiry of student teachers’ experiences of The Scottish Storyline Approach in teacher education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Through qualitative interviews and self-administrated online surveys, this study critically examines how 104 first-year student teachers experience The Scottish Storyline Approach, a cross-curricular approach to teaching ... -
"Cadáver son las que ostentó murallas”. La ruina en el discurso barroco español.
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Can small banks lead the way out of the crisis in the OECD area?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The economic shock of 2008, and the Great Recession that followed, created uncertainty of the direction of the global economy. With slow economic growth in the OECD area, political unrest and lack of a clear direction from ... -
Chaos theory and butterfly effects in times of corruption and a bank crash in 1886: the case of Arendal (Norway) illustrated through a regional-globalized model
(Chapter, 2018-03-28)The chapter focuses at corruption practices in the bank crash in the town of Arendal in Southern Norway in 1886 using insights from chaos theory and butterfly effects as theoretical frameworks. Using secondary sources from ... -
Character Alignment in Morphologically Complex Translation Sets for Related Languages
(Chapter, 2020)For languages with complex morphology, word-to-word translation is a task with various potential applications, for example, in information retrieval, language instruction, and dictionary creation, as well as in machine ... -
A comment on mortgage procyclicality
(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 ... -
A comment on the optimal structure of export processing free zones
(Arbeidsrapport (Høgskolen i Østfold), Working paper, 2007-09-10)This article comments on the industrial structure of developing countries’ export processing free zones (EPZ). As developing countries are exposed to irrecoverable entry costs in international markets, the relationship ... -
Commercial Real Estate at the ZLB: Investment Demand and CAPM-WACC Invariance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper analyzes the implications of a low interest rate environment (the zero lower bound – ZLB) for the demand for commercial real estate. Investment demand is conventionally assessed by return and risk adjusted return, ... -
Concepts of Work in Marx, Durkheim, and Weber
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-06)The extremely dramatic social transformation – called ‘the great transformation’ by Polanyi (1985) – that the full emergence of capitalism and industrialism meant in Europe led to the birth of modern social theory. The ... -
Contacto con el español en el tiempo libre en diferentes contextos: estudiantes de bachillerato noruegos en España y Noruega
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)I presentasjonen legger jeg fram hovedfunnene fra tre kvalitative intervjuundersøkelser blant spanskelever i vg2 og vg3 i Norge og ved norske skoler i Spania. To av undersøkelsene ble gjennomført i 2016, mens den tredje ...