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    • Competing with precision: incentives for developing predictive biomarker tests 

      Brekke, Kurt R.; Dalen, Dag Morten; Straume, Odd Rune (SAM DP;06/2022, Working paper, 2022-03)
      We study the incentives of drug producers to develop predictive biomarkers, taking into account strategic interaction between drug producers and health plans. For this purpose we develop a two-dimensional spatial framework ...
    • Competition and Career Advancement: The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave 

      Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar (DP SAM;13/2020, Working paper, 2020)
      Does leave-taking matter for young workers’ careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect—relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm—as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy ...
    • Competition and compatibility among Internet service providers 

      Foros, Øystein; Hansen, Bjørn (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-03)
      We consider a two-stage game between two competing Internet service providers(ISPs). The firms offer access to the Internet. Access is assumed to be vertically and horizontally differentiated. Our model exhibits network ...
    • Competition and physician behaviour: Does the competitive environment affect the propensity to issue sickness certificates? 

      Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Monstad, Karin; Straume, Odd Rune (DP SAM;3, Working paper, 2017)
      Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit ...
    • Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-08)
      We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public utilities), using a Hotelling framework, in the presence of sluggish demand. We take a differential game ...
    • Competition and quality in regulated markets: a differential-game approach 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Straume, Odd Rune; Siciliani, Luigi; Cellini, Roberto (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-02)
      We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public utilities) taking a differential game approach, in which quality is a stock variable. Using a Hotelling ...
    • Competition and risk taking in local bank markets: evidence from the business loans segment 

      Canta, Chiara; Nilsen, Øivind A.; Ulsaker, Simen A. (SAM DP;10/2023, Working paper, 2023-05-18)
      This paper studies empirically the relationship between competition and risk taking in banking markets. We exploit an unique dataset providing information about all bank loans to Norwegian firms over several years. Rather ...
    • Competition and waiting times in hospital markets 

      Brekke, Kurt Richard; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-03)
      This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that differ in (geographical) location and, potentially, waiting time, and two types of patients; high-benefit ...
    • Competition between bank regulators 

      Schindler, Dirk; Eggert, Wolfgang (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      This paper examines competition between bank regulators in open economies. We use a model where credit demand of firms is endogenous and show any tendency for downward competition in regulation policy is limited by the ...
    • Competition, complementarity and compatibility in the internet 

      Foros, Øystein (Doctoral thesis, 2002)
    • Competitive in the lab, successful in the field? 

      Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Pires, Armando; Tungodden, Bertil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      A number of lab experiments in recent years have analyzed people’s willingness to com-pete. But to what extent is competitive behavior in the lab associated with field choicesand outcomes? We address this question in a ...
    • Competitiveness, gender and handedness: a large-sample intercultural study 

      Buser, Thomas; Cappelen, Alexander; Gneezy, Uri; Hoffman, Moshe; Tungodden, Bertil (DP SAM;02/2020, Working paper, 2020-01)
      We conduct a large-scale intercultural experiment to elicit competitiveness and ask whether individual and gender differences in competitiveness are partially determined by nature. We use being a “lefty” (i.e., having ...
    • Computing the Jacobian in Gaussian Spatial Autoregressive Models: An Illustrated Comparison of Available Methods 

      Bivand, Roger; Hauke, Jan; Kossowski, Tomasz (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      When estimating spatial regression models by maximum likelihood using spatial weights matrices to represent spatial processes, computing the Jacobian, ln(|I - lW|), remains a central problem. In principle, and for smaller ...
    • Computing the Jacobian in spatial models : an applied survey 

      Bivand, Roger S. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-08)
      Despite attempts to get around the Jacobian in fitting spatial econometric models by using GMM and other approximations, it remains a central problem for maximum likelihood estimation. In principle, and for smaller data ...
    • Conclusion - Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era 

      Petersson, Niels P.; Tenold, Stig; White, Nicholas J. (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    • The Consequences of Inequality: Beliefs and Redistributive Preferences 

      Lobeck, Max; Støstad, Morten Nyborg (DP SAM;17/2023, Working paper, 2023-10)
      What matters for individuals’ preferences for redistribution? In this paper we show that consequentialist beliefs about inequality – beliefs about how economic inequality changes the crime rate or the quality of democratic ...
    • Consumer price indices for the Scandinavian countries 1815-1913 

      Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-07)
      The present article examines consumer price development in the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, 1815-1913. A consumer price index (CPI) is constructed for Norway. It is based on consumer prices ...
    • The contribution of foreign entrants to employment and productivity growth 

      Balsvik, Ragnhild; Haller, Stefanie A. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-08)
      We compare employment and productivity dynamics in foreign and domestic entrants, exitors, survivors and acquisitions in Norwegian manufacturing from 1979- 2000. All types of foreign plants are on average more productive ...
    • Corporate tax systems and cross country profit shifting : formula apportionment vs. separate accounting 

      Schjelderup, Guttorm; Eggert, Wolfgang (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-09)
      This paper shows in a symmetric tax competition model that a formula apportionment system can attain the first best welfare optimum without any political pre-agreed harmonization or coordination of tax bases and tax ...
    • Corporate tax systems, multinational enterprises, and economic integration 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Midelfart, Karen Helene; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-07)
      Multinational firms are known to shift profits and countries are known to compete over shifty profits. Two major principles for corporate taxation are Separate Accounting (SA) and Formula Apportionment (FA). These two ...