Selected, older working papers

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• "Coordination, fair treatment and inflation persistence", (with John Driscoll), December 2002, in PDF format.
• "Indebtedness and unemployment: A durable relationship", (with Tore Ellingsen), revised version April 2002, in PDF format.
• "Downward nominal wage rigidity - contracts or fairness considerations", Prelimary version 18 June 2002 in PDF format.
• "The Public Budget Balance - Fiscal Indicators and Cyclical Sensitivity in the Nordic Countries", (with Henrik Braconier),Working Paper No 67, 1999, National Institute of Economic Research, Stockholm, in PDF format.
• “The unemployment problem. A Norwegian perspective. OECD Economics Department working paper 172, 1997. (Også UiO Memorandum 34, october 1996)
• "Rasjonalitetsantakelsen i økonomisk teori". Memorandum 16, Sosialøkonomisk institutt, 1988.

Older publications

• "Measuring structural unemployment: NAWRU-estimates in the Nordic countries", (with Ragnar Nymoen), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 104, 2002, 87-104, In PDF format . 
• "Does price stability exacerbate labour market rigidities in the EMU?", Empirica 28, 2001, 401-417, almost identical working paper version in PDF format.
• "Noisy signals in target zone regimes", (with Dag Kolsrud), European Economic Review 43, 1999, 1531-1567. In PDF format.
• "Renegotiation and the efficiency of investments", Rand Journal of Economics 30, 1999, Spring, 106-119, In PDF format.
• "Wage drift and the relevance of centralised wage setting". Scandinavian Journal of Economics 100, 1998, 711-731, In PDF format.
• "Comment on "A monetary policy framework for Norway: the options" by W.E. Alexander, J.H. Green and B. Arnason", in Choosing a Monetary Policy Target, A.B. Christiansen and J.F. Qvigstad (eds), Scandinavian University Press 1998, pp 61-65, in web format.
• "Measures to improve wage formation in Sweden. Comments on proposals regarding mediation and conflict resolution", (with Karl Ove Moene), bilag til SOU 1998:141 Medling och lönebildning, English version in PDF format
• "Sticky Consumption and Rigid Wages", (with Tore Ellingsen). In: Brakman, S H. van Ees and S.K. Kuipers (Eds.) Market Behaviour and Macroeconomic Modelling. MacMillan, Basingstoke. 1998, pp. 183–200. In PDF format.
• "Ratifying quorum and bargaining power". International Economic Review 38, 1997, pp 825-851. With Hans Haller. In PDF format.
• "Optimal contract length in a reputational model of monetary policy". European Economic Review 41, 1997, pp 227-243. With Chris Ellis. In PDF format.
• "Wage bargaining, holdout, and inflation". Oxford Economic Papers 49, 1997, 235-255.  In PDF format.
• "The credibility of a fixed exchange rate. How reputation is gained and lost". Scandinavian Journal of Economics 98, 1996, 485-502. With Birger Vikøren. In PDF format.
• "Wage bargaining and nominal rigidities". European Economic Review 38, 1994, 1021-1039. In PDF format.
• "Interest rates in the Nordic countries: A test based on devaluation expectations". Scandinavian Journal of Economics 96, 1994, 15-30. With Birger Vikøren. In PDF format.
• "Entry into a new market: A game of timing". International Journal of Industrial Organization 12, 1994, 549-568. With Christian Riis.
• "Bargaining and commitment in a permanent relationship". Games and Economic Behaviour 7, 1994, 169-176. 
• "Network or pay-per-view? A welfare analysis". Economics Letters 43, 1993, 59-64.
• "Wage moderation and union structure". Oxford Economic Papers 43, 1991, 409-423. With Oddbjørn Raaum.  In PDF format.
• "Exchange rate policy and wage formation in an economy with many trade unions". European Economic Review 35, 1991, 1543-1557. In  PDF format.
• "Insiders and outsiders in labour market models". Journal of Economics 52, 1990, 43-54.
• "A letter to the Editor on wage bargaining". Journal of Economic Theory 52, 1990, 232-236. With Hans Haller.
• "Wage drift and bargaining: Evidence from Norway". Economica 56, 1989, 419-432. In PDF format.

· "Local and central wage bargaining". Scandinavian Journal of Economics 90, 1988, 93-99.

PhD Thesis, submitted January 1990

• Introduction
• Chapter 2 Non-cooperative wage bargaining. Shorter version later published in "A letter to the Editor on wage bargaining". Journal of Economic Theory 52, 1990, 232-236. With Hans Haller.

· Chapter 3 "Local and central wage bargaining". Scandinavian Journal of Economics 90, 1988, 93-99.

· Chapter 4 Wage drift and bargaining.

• Chapter 5 A bargaining theory of inflation (Chapter 5 and 6 in PDF-format)
• Chapter 6 Wage bargaining and efficiency wages: Some implications for tests of trade union models (Chapter 5 and 6 in PDF-format)

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