During half a century of communist rule, China has been transformed from a relatively closed, predominantly rural and agricultural society into one in which modern industry and international trade and capital play major ...

Using quasi-random assignment of criminal cases to judges, we estimate large incarceration spillovers in criminal and brother networks. When a defendant is sent to prison, there are 51 and 32 percentage point reductions ...

Using a random judge design and panel data from Norway, we estimate that imprisonment discourages further criminal behavior, with re-offense probabilities falling by 29 percentage points and criminal charges dropping by ...

Shared fish stocks are such as migrate across borders between different countries’ exclusive economic zones. This paper discusses the incentive compatibility of fish-sharing agreements based on the zonal attachment of such ...

I denne masterutredningen gjøres det rede for hvordan incentivsystemer kan benyttes for å oppnå ønsket innsats og prioriteringer. I hovedsak studeres momenter som bør vurderes ved utforming av en optimal incentivkontrakt, ...

In this paper, we focus on how cost allocation can be used as a means to create incentives for collaboration among companies, with the aim of reducing the total transportation cost. The collaboration is assumed to be ...

The literature on international tax competition has shown how increased international mobility of the tax base may create a downward pressure on tax rates and give rise to increased inequality in disposable income. This ...

While Norway has experienced income growth accompanied by a large decline in mortality during the past several decades, little is known about the distribution of these improvements in longevity across the income distribution. ...

This paper examines the flexibility of multinational firms to use income-shifting strategies within a tax year to react to operating losses. We develop a theoretical model that considers how affiliate losses can be ...

How the tax system might affect the individual’s educational level is well studied. But the question of how the tax system affects the individual’s choice of educational type is mostly ignored. This is an important issue, ...