Mulige temaer for masteroppgave - forslag Jon Vislie

1. Mulige temaer for masteroppgave - forslag Jon Vislie  Teknologisk arbeidsledighet? Vil roboter kunne erstatte arbeidskraft fullt ut? (Arbeidskraft som en ikke-essensiell produksjonsfaktor – en myte eller en brutal realitet?)  Baumol’sdisease og velferdsstatens framtid – hvordan vil ujevn produktivitetsvekst mellom vare- og tjenesteproduksjon kunne skape problemer for offentlig tjenesteproduksjon i framtiden?  Hvem skal betale for forsinkelser hos lege, tannlege etc.? Samfunnsøkonomiske kostnader av «for mye venting»? Hvem skal bære «ventekostnaden»? Se også seminaroppgaver i ECON 3010 – mange typer oppgaver som med fordel kan utredes videre.

2. Vista Analyse • «hvis miljøøkonomiinteresserte har kvantitative fibre og er interessert i å analysere data fra spørre-undersøkelser om preferanser og verdi av å unngå skader fra oljeutslipp, kunne du be dem om å ta kontakt med meg» Henrik Lindhjem henrik.lindhjem@vista-analyse.no • Her er mer info om det nye prosjektet + om de prosjektene vi har (om mye av det samme) der vi allerede har data: http://vista-analyse.no/no/nyheter/stort-forskningsprosjekt-til-vista/ http://vista-analyse.no/no/nyheter/mer-arbeid-med-velferdstap-ved-oljeutslipp-fra-skip/ http://vista-analyse.no/no/nyheter/vista-i-samfunns-konomen-velferdstap-ved-oljeutslipp/

3. The Science Shop Anita Wold,Career and EmployabilityCoordinator

4. What is the Science Shop? • The Science Shop invites students to write their master’s thesis in cooperation with a broad range of organisations and companies. • Our partners range from ministries, via research institutes to non-governmental organisations and consulting companies.

7. Why use The Science Shop? • greater interest in and audience for the results of the Master’s thesis • access to relevant data material and external contacts • insight into the requirements and expectations of working life • contacts and networks in industry • opportunity for a Master’s scholarship

8. www.uio.no/english/about/collaboration/science-shop/www.facebook.com/vitenskapsbutikkenwww.uio.no/english/about/collaboration/science-shop/www.facebook.com/vitenskapsbutikken

9. International Economics

10. What we’re working on • Innovation and trade. • Does trade policy affect firms’ incentives to innovate? E.g. WTO. • Important to understand the how technological progress depends on policy. • Currently studying the (global) universe of patents, over several decades • PATSTAT • Knowledge flows and trade. • We think that knowledge flows (imperfectly) between countries • Absorption may depend on trade as well • Business partners abroad, face-to-face meetings etc. • Can measure knowledge flows by citations in patent data. • Immigration and structural change. • Huge immigration shock in Norway 2004-today. Share of foreign born in population almost doubled from 7% to 13%. • How does immigration affect industrial structure? ..growth? • Not obvious if immigrant workers & capital are substitutes.

11. What you can work on • Help us in any of the projects above. • Or work on any topic (weakly) related to international econ: • Trade agreements. E.g. controversy over TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). Impact on trade and welfare. • Trade and inequality. • And more • In practice: Find a country/time frame with a large shock (RTA, China competition, etc). Gather data on trade, wages, employment, +++

12. IN SUM: Lots of exciting research possibilities. • Lots of data • International cross country/industry data. • Micro data from Norway (firm level, buyer-seller ++) .. And very engaged advisors.. • Andreas Moxnes andreamo@econ.uio.no ES 11th floor • Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe k.h.ulltveit-moe@econ.uio.no Thanks!

13. ESOPCentre for Equality, Social Organization, and Performance • The Welfare state • Social Organization • Development and Globalization • Income and Social Mobility • Institutions and Society Models • www.esop.uio.no

14. The ESOP Student Scholarships • Until 2016 ESOP hadscholarships: • Detailsaboutpossiblecontinuation not clear • Thesismust be relevant to one or more of ESOP’sresearchares • The application deadline willprobablybe October2016

15. Master thesis at Oslo Fiscal Studies (OFS) Presentation by Thor O. Thoresen (SSB/OFS)

16. Public economics an important and livelyresearchfield • The centre (OFS) established in 2013 • Collaboration betweenEcondep, Statistics Norway and Frisch centre • Promoteteachingand research in publiceconomics • OFS thesisonpubliceconomics is recommended • OFS offers 4 scholarships http://www.sv.uio.no/econ/english/research/centres/ofs/scholarships/ • Supervision by OFS affiliates • Contact Vidar Christansen, Gaute Torsvik, Thor O. Thoresen

17. Exampleofprevious OFS thesis

18. Someexamplesoftopics for 2017-thesis (web page has full list) • Estimationoftheelasticityoftaxableincomeon cross-sectional data. Econometrics/publiceconomics. Using income data in SSB. Supervisor: Trine Vattø (SSB/OFS) • Estimationofbequestmotives. Theory/econometrics. Supervisor: Elin Halvorsen (SSB/OFS) • Tax deductibility of interest on debt in corporations (or in the tax system more generally). Public economics theory.Supervisor: Vidar Christiansen (UiO/OFS) • Wealthtax. Studies basedonthedebateontheefficiency loss ofthewealthtax. Supervisor: Gaute Torsvik (UiO/OFS)

19. Master thesis at Statistics Norway www.ssb.no Presentation for master students at UiO February 2016

20. Research Department at Statistics NorwayResearch areas • Social and demographic research • Head of research: Trude Lappegård, lap@ssb.no • Energy and environmental economics • Head of research: Taran Fæhn, tfn@ssb.no • Macroeconomics • Head of research: Håvard Hungnes, hhu@ssb.no • Microeconomics • Head of research: Erik Fjærli, efj@ssb.no • Public economics • Head of research: Kjetil Telle, tel@ssb.no Presentation for master students at UiO February 2016

21. MacroeconomicsMaster thesis • Some recent topics: • Coordination in Norwegian Wage Setting - Estimation of wage relations with heterogeneous labour • Impulses from abroad on Norwegian business cycles • Modellingthe final consumption expenditure of households • «System Dynamics» Presentation for master students at UiO February 2016

22. Somepossible master thesisprojects • Corporate net lending (Erik Fjærli, efj@ssb.no) • Financial assets constitute a large fraction of total assets in the non-financial corporate sector in Norway but we know little about the sector's corresponding flows of funds (saving and lending). However, international comparisons by OECD show an international trend where firms seem to have shifted from being net borrowers to becoming net lenders. Using micro data (accounts and balance sheets) and ownership data covering the period 2000-2014, it should be possible to verify whether the same development has taken place in Norway and then eventually test alternative explanations for this change in investment behavior (Tax motives? Business cycles? Permanently less profitable domestic investment opportunities? Other? ). Alternatively, what are the macroeconomic implications of firms saving rather than investing in real assets? Candidates must have qualifications within corporate finance and econometrics. We expect candidates to independently work out a research proposal with references to relevant and up to date literature. • Accounting for ecosystem services from agricultural land and forests, with policy analysis for supporting the co-production of ecosystem services. (IulieAslaksen, iua@ssb.no) • Modeling household demand for energy commodities in a CGE model for Norway. (Brita Bye, bby@ssb.no) • Based on estimated parameters from detailed dataset of households income and expenditure, we can derive direct and cross price elasticities of different commodity nests, including energy goods, in a more aggregate consumer preference structure. The effects of energy and environmental policy analyses hinge on the empirical effects and modeling of consumer preferences. Presentation for master students at UiO February 2016

23. NUPI – research group on international economics (contact: am@nupi.no or hm@nupi.no) • Small economics research group in an interdisciplinary environment • Jens Chr. Andvig, Pavel Chakraborty, Hege Medin, Arne Melchior, Åshild Johnsen + 3 part-time + visitors + students • Desk + supervision + funding depending on project affiliation • Payment per month normally 7363 or less, depending on project relevance • International trade • Regional integration • Spatial economics • Firm heterogeneity • Economic geography • Model simulation, ”geographical economics” • Technology and innovation • Development issues • International inequality • Corruption and comparative economics

24. Some current projects • Traders in the food value chain • 2014-2017, international value chains, middlemen, mirror data, case studies, trade with firm heterogeneity • Europe in transition – Small states and Europe in an age of global shifts (EUNOR) • 2014-2017, economics work package, “trade policy spillovers”, are EEA policies discriminatory vs. third countries, does Norway have autonomy? • Responsible innovation and happiness: A new approach to the effect of ICTs • 2015-1019, NUPI work package on ”Income-mediated effects: International technology diffusion and the digital divide” • ICT in India and China • Project on Russia, India expiring in 2016 • Policy-oriented projects (trade, Asia, TTIP, etc.) • Often short-term, come and go

25. Writing your masters thesis at the Frisch Centre Oddbjørn Raaum February 2016

26. The Frisch Centre • Applied researchinstituteon campus • Research on • Labormarket • Health • Environmentalpolicies and climatechange • Behavioraleconomics

27. What can we offer? • Students take part in ongoing research projects • Access to data • Supervision • Office space • Scholarship NOK 20.000; application before 1 March, see www.frisch.uio for details

28. What have others done?

29. PhD student at Frisch, Trond Vigtel, received the Frisch Scholarship in 2015, and won the Master Price Micro with the thesis «The heterogeneous costs of job displacement – the case of firm closures in Norway»

30. CREEOslo Centre for Research on Environmentally friendly Energy • Research centre for social science-related energy research (FME Samfunn) • Funded by the Research Council of Norway • Research partners: Frisch (host), Economics UiO, SSB, Tilburg • Main research focus: Economics • Applied theory, econometrics, numerical equilibrium models • Multidisciplinary: Anthropology, law • Time horizon: 2011-2019

31. Workpackages • Regional and national climate and energy policies • Global climate policies and negotiations • Innovation and Diffusion Policy • Regulation and Market (Electricity) • Evaluation of Environmental and Energy Policy Measures

32. CREE Master Scholarship • Up to three scholarships each year (Each NOK 20.000) • Thesis on a CREE research subject • Submitted January 2016: Climate and Energy Security Policies in the EU - Conflict or Cohesion? • Office and supervisor at CREE • Student has to submit a short description of topic (up to 3 pages) • Applications will be evaluated continuously after 15 April • Can work fall and/or spring • Check CREE web page

33. Peace in Colombia – Whatnow? Master students in Department of International Studies NIBR-HiOA Supervisor Henrik Wiig

34. Post-conflict in Colombia • Civilconflict last 50 years (forever?) • Norwegian facilitators • 6 million displaced • Democraticcities, feudal countryside • Missingstate, unclearpropertyrights • Genderinequality • Peace transformsociety? • Genderequality in land rights • Land reform vs. land restitution • Return vs. resettlement • FDI investments and agrifrontier, climate

35. Research infrastructure • Datasets • RDS (snowball) ofIDPs, cross section 2014, 499 HH • Land restitutedIDPs, cross section 2015, 240 HH and court cases • Household survey, panel 2010 and 2013, 10.000 HH • Backgroundinformation and reports • Facilities • Office 6/12 months at NIBR, see «Vitenskapsbutikken» • No wage, paidresearchassistanttaskspossible • Contacts • Norway: LA researchnetwork • Colombia: UN, Los Andes, U del Norte, Ministries, Agencies, farmers • International: WB, Harvard • Ministries: UD-FF, Noref • Business: Investors

36. Notes A/B: Causalor self-selection? • Gender, displacement and conflict - An RDS sample of internally displaced persons in Colombia • The boys have lost their love for the land: Reparation programs for Colombia’s displace population • To be beaten or not to be beaten - The marginal effect of joint land titling on women in The Peruvian Highland • The impact of women’s mobilization - A study of the impact of civil society organizations on the implementation of the Special Land Titling and Cadastre Project (PETT) in Peru • Trust and cooperation – Experimental evidence from Malawi • Subdividing for success? The farm size-productivity relationship in the South African Land Reform • Collective action in reforestation - A case study from Malawi • Gender differences in risk aversion an experimental study from Peru • Closing the gender land gap? Women's land rights in Peru and the effects of the Rural Land Titling Project • Minerals in Peru – An analysis of the royalty tax regime Support ideas - Comparativeadvantage - Produce joint work – Bright n’ enthusiastic