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Made in China, sold in Norway : local labor market effects of an import shock
(Discussion paper;25/2014, Working paper, 2014-06)We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by exposure to import competition from China. We find negative employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled workers tend to be pushed ... -
The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 Folk School Reform
(SAM DP;14/2021, Working paper, 2021-08)Upon assuming power for the first time in 1935, the Norwegian Labour Party delivered on its promise for a major schooling reform. The reform raised minimum instruction time in less developed rural areas and boosted the ... -
Making sense of market delineation with the aggregate diversion ratio
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-08)The US Merger Guidelines leave it an open question if the SSNIP test requires an increase in one, some or all prices in the candidate market. We argue that the characteristics of the candidate market in question should be ... -
Management of knowledge workers
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-05)We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results relay when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects ... -
Mapping risk aversion in Norway using hypothetical income gambles
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-08)This is the first study that explores the heterogeneity of risk preferences among the Norwegian population. We measure risk aversion as the complement of the maximal relative downside income risk a person is willing to ... -
Marginal indirect tax reform analysis with merit good arguments and environmental concerns : Norway, 1999
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-04)We present a framework to identify and evaluate marginal tax reforms when merit good arguments and environmental concerns are given explicit consideration. It is applied to the Norwegian indirect tax system for 1999. ... -
Marginal productivity reward : a new justification
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-12)Marginal productivity reward has been justified either as a way of ensuring efficiency or of respecting people’s self-ownership. Both these arguments have their limitations. In this paper we present a new and more general ... -
Margins and market shares : pharmacy incentives for generic substitution
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-07)We study the impact of product margins on pharmacies incentive to promote generics instead of brand-names. First, we construct a theoretical model where pharmacies can persuade patients with a brand-name prescription to ... -
Maritime Financial Instability and Supply Chain Management Effects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The paper investigates the offshore crisis 2015–2017 and its impact on central international offshore oil and gas related maritime cluster, the Blue Maritime Cluster, located at the North-Western coast of Norway. This ... -
Maritime trade and merchant shipping: The shipping/trade-ratio from the 1870s until today.
(SAM;12/2016, Working paper, 2016-06-22)This paper discusses the development of countries’ market shares in world shipping over the last 150 years. The analysis is based upon a new and purpose-built indicator: the shipping/trade-ratio. This indicator presents ... -
Market definition with shock analysis
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-11)The SSNIP test for market definition requires information about demand substitution and profitability. If detailed information about demand is not available, observed effects of a shock in the industry may be an alternative ... -
Market power and storage in electricity markets
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Market Power in Retail Gasoline Markets
(DP SAM;21/2019, Working paper, 2019-07)We estimate a structural model to uncover the degree of competition in retail gasoline markets using daily station-level data on quantity and price from the Swedish market. The structural model enables us to consider key ... -
Market shares in two-sided media industries
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-03)This paper generalizes the frequently used Hotelling model for two-sided markets in order to determine the equilibrium market shares. We show that independent of whether consumers are uniformly or non-uniformly distributed, ... -
Market-specific Sunk Export Costs: The Impact of Learning and Spillovers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Firms may face sunk costs when entering an export market. Previous studies have focused on global or country-specific sunk export costs. This study analyses the importance of market-specific sunk export costs (defining ... -
Market-specific Sunk Export Costs: The Impact of Learning and Spillovers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Firms may face sunk costs when entering an export market. Previous studies have focused on global or country-specific sunk export costs. This study analyses the importance of market-specific sunk export costs (defining ... -
Markets for public and private health care : redistribution arguments for a mixed system
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-04)Should health care provision be public, private, or both? We look at this question in a setting where people differ in their earnings capacity and express an inelastic demand for health care. We assume that illness reduces ... -
Markup cyclicality and input factor adjustments
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)This paper investigates the existence of markups and their cyclical behaviour at industry sector level. Markups are given as a price-cost relation that is estimated from a dynamic, structural model of the firm. The firms ... -
Markup cyclicality and input factor adjustments
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)This paper investigates the existence of markups and their cyclical behaviour at the industry sector level. Markups are given as a price-cost relation that is estimated from a dynamic, structural model of the firm. The ... -
Matched trade at the firm level and the micro origins of international business-cycle comovement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article uses firm × national market export and import data for all Swedish private sector firms for 1997–2014 to examine the firm-level contribution of trade and foreign ownership to the correlation between Swedish ...