• Social Capital and the Viability of Stakeholder-Oriented Firms: Evidence from Norwegian Savings Banks 

      Ostergaard, Charlotte; Schindele, Ibolya; Vale, Bent (Working Papers;14/2009, Working paper, 2009)
      Stakeholder oriented governance systems are often thought to hamper efficiency. We show that social capital improves the viability of stakeholder-oriented firms in competitive markets. Studying exits from the population ...
    • Solvensavstand og andre risikoindikatorer for banker 

      Aronsen, Per Atle; Nordal, Kjell Bjørn (Staff Memo;6/2009, Working paper, 2009)
      Siden finansuroen begynte i 2007 har mange banker verden over opplevd kraftig fall i aksjekursen og økte risikopåslag i prisene på gjeldsfinansiering. Grunnen til dette er i all hovedsak at markedet forventet redusert ...
    • Solving Second and Third-Order Approximations to DSGE Models: A Recursive Sylvester Equation Solution 

      Binning, Andrew (Working Papers;18/2013, Working paper, 2013)
      In this paper I derive the matrix chain rules for solving a second and a third-order approximation to a DSGE model that allow the use of a recursive Sylvester equation solution method. In particular I use the solution ...
    • Spillovers to Europe from the Crisis in Russia and Ukraine 

      Husabø, Eilert (Economic Commentaries;6/2014, Others, 2014)
      The IMF recently pointed to the unrest in Ukraine as a risk to global growth prospects. This article provides a short overview of transmission channels for the effects of the crisis and potential spillovers if the crisis ...
    • State dependence of monetary policy across business, credit and interest rate cycles 

      Alpanda, Sami; Granziera, Eleonora; Zubairy, Sarah (Working Paper;21/2019, Working paper, 2019)
      We investigate how the business, credit and interest rate cycles affect the monetary transmission mechanism, using state-dependent local projection methods and data from 18 advanced economies. We exploit the time-series ...
    • State dependent effects in labour and foreign exchange markets 

      Akram, Q. Farooq (Doctoral Dissertations in Economics;1, Doctoral thesis, 2000-02-12)
      The impact of monetary policy in the short- and long-run, and over the business cycle are issues of great interest to a central bank. The response of nominal and real exchange rates to oil price fluctuations are also of ...
    • State Space Models with Endogenous Regime Switching (currently unavailable) 

      Chang, Yoosoon; Maih, Junior; Tan, Fei (Working Paper;12/2018, Working paper, 2018)
    • Statens finansieringsbehov og opplåning i statsobligasjoner 

      Svor, Anders (Statsgjeld Memo;1/2023, Working paper, 2023)
      Om sammenhengen mellom statsbudsjettets finansieringsbehov og publisert låneopptak i markedet.
    • Statens reservefond 1904-1925. Et forsøk på å binde politisk handlefrihet? 

      Hylland, Aanund (Journal article, 2005)
      Statens reservefond, på 40 millioner kroner til bruk «i nødens stund», ble i 1911 grunnlovfestet for å sikre at det ikke ble brukt i strid med forutsetningene. Midlene skulle plasseres i «førsteklasses» utenlandske ...
    • A statistical analysis of Norges Bank’s forecasts 

      Hagelund, Kåre; Husabø, Eilert (Staff Memo;3/2022, Working paper, 2022)
      In this paper, we perform a statistical analysis of the forecasting properties of Norges Bank’s macroeconomic forecasts in the period 1998 – 2019. As a part of the analysis we assess Norges Bank’s forecasts against similar ...
    • Statistical Issues in Macroeconomic Modelling 

      Jansen, Eilev S. (Working Papers;12/2000, Working paper, 2000)
      The paper describes the influx of mathematical statistics in economics. It focuses on an approach to macroeconometric modelling which is based on fundamental statistical concepts like the joint distribution function of all ...
    • Statistics on Foreign Exchange Transactions - New Insight into Foreign Exchange Markets 

      Meyer, Erik; Skjelvik, Janett (Journal article, 2006)
      Norges Bank has published new statistics on the purchase and sale of NOK for foreign currency. The statistics provide information about activity in the market for NOK, and will be an important aid in monitoring and identifying ...
    • Statlig pengeteori? : Pengebegrep, pengekrav og statsmyndighet 

      Syrstad, Helge (Skriftserie;54, Book, 2019)
    • Sterk vekst i forbrukslån 

      Hagen, Marius; Turtveit, Lars-Tore; Vatne, Bjørn Helge (Aktuell Kommentar;1/2017, Others, 2017)
      Forbrukslån har vokst raskt de siste årene. Forbrukslån står for en liten andel av husholdningenes totale lån, men en stor andel av utlånstapene til husholdningssektoren. Ligningstall tyder på at mye av forbrukslånene ...
    • Sticky Prices and Inflation Expectations in Norway 

      Erlandsen, Solveig K. (Staff Memo;15/2014, Working paper, 2014)
      Some consumer prices are changed often, while others are changed infrequently. In this memo, I investigate whether Norwegian consumer prices that are changed often – called flexible prices in this memo – and prices that ...
    • Stigende matvarepriser – en drivkraft for inflasjonen? 

      Sand, Tove Katrine; Støholen, Bente (Journal article, 2008)
      Internasjonale matvarepriser har steget kraftig siden begynnelsen av 2007. I denne artikkelen analyserer vi faktorer bak prisveksten på matvarer både internasjonalt og i Norge. Prisøkningen på matvarer i Norge, slik den ...
    • Strategic Bank Monitoring and Firms’ Debt Structure 

      Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard (Working Papers;10/2005, Working paper, 2005)
      Firms choose debt structure and competing banks choose monitoring intensity. Monitoring improves credit allocation, but creates informational lock-in effects in bank-borrower relationships. In a competitive credit market, ...
    • Strategic Interaction Between the Fiscal and Monetary Authorities Under Inflation Targeting 

      Leitemo, Kai (Working Papers;9/2000, Working paper, 2000)
      This paper studies the strategic interaction between the fiscal and monetary authorities when the monetary policymaker pursues an underlying inflation target. Given that monetary policy is transparent and the fiscal ...
    • Strategic Investor Behaviour and the Volume-Volatility Relation in Equity Markets 

      Næs, Randi; Skjeltorp, Johannes A. (Working Papers;9/2003, Working paper, 2003)
      We examine the volume-volatility relation using detailed data from a limit order driven equity market. Estimates of the intraday slope of the demand and supply schedules of the order book are found to capture regularities ...
    • Strategirapport for petroleumsfondet (Fra 1.1.2006 Statens pensjonsfond - Utland) 

      Ukjent forfatter (Staff Memo;3/2006, Working paper, 2006)
      Vi skal belyse egenskapene ved dagens strategiske referanseportefølje og ved aktuelle alternativer. For å komme fram til hvilke egenskaper vi bør se på, diskuterer vi først fondets målfunksjon. De politiske myndigheter har ...