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Fairness in Winner-Take-All Markets
(DP SAM;8/2018, Working paper, 2018-04)The paper reports the first experimental study on people’s fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income ... -
Fairness is intuitive
(Discussion paper;9/2014, Working paper, 2014-04)In this paper we provide new evidence showing that fair behavior is intuitive to most people. We find a strong association between a short response time and fair behavior in the dictator game. This association is robust ... -
Fairness motivation in bargaining
(Discussion Papers;14/2011, Working paper, 2011-07)In this paper, we develop a model that captures the potential conflict between two individuals who follow different fairness principles in bargaining. This model is used to analyse the infl uence of fairness motivation on ... -
Family stability and labor market gender convergence
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-04)The present paper examines the historical development in the structure of the family in terms of marriage, divorce, fertility and labor 1886-2007 in order to map quantitative changes. The paper draws new information from ... -
Fast times at Ridgemont High? : the effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage births
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-09)Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this ... -
FDI, R&D and endogenous competitiveness
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-01)We analyze the influence of endogenous competitiveness on multinational activity. Competitiveness is endogenized by assuming that firms differ on R&D commitment power, i.e.: some firms are leaders in R&D. We show that ... -
Feeding the people: grain yields and agricultural expansion in Qing China
(DP SAM;27/2018, Working paper, 2018-12-13)We use modern econometric methods to analyze a recently-released sample of 3 000 Chinese grain yields. We find significant variation across provinces and persistent increases in yields over time – albeit slow compared to ... -
Fighting poverty : company interests and foreign aid policy, and an impact analysis of natural disasters
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Financial Instability and Banking Crises in a small open economy
(SAM DP;18/2021, Working paper, 2021-11)The present paper seeks to investigate the importance of financial instability during four banking crises, with focus on the small open economy of Norway. The crises elaborated on are the Post First world war crisis of the ... -
Financial instability, institutional development and economic crisis in Eastern Europe
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Financing of media firms : does competition matter?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-01)This paper analyses how competition between media firms influences the way they are financed. In a setting where monopoly media firms choose to be completely financed by consumer payments, competition may lead the ... -
Finanskriser - hva vet vi?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Da finanskrisen herjet som verst – krisen som startet i det amerikanske subprime-markedet på midten av 2000-tallet og etter hvert rammet mange økonomier – henvendte dronningen av England seg til en gruppe Økonomer med ... -
Firm exit, vintage effect and the business cycle in Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-12)In spite of the large and growing literature on producer heterogeneity and firm exit behavior, little attention has been paid to the vintage capital theory of firm exits as an alternative hypothesis to learning/selection. ... -
First-best optimality in capital income taxation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-10)In case of risk, especially aggregate risk which cannot be insured, the literature states that for achieving first-best optimality state-dependent lumpsum taxes are absolutely necessary. However, we show in a two-asset ... -
Fiscal corruption : a vice or a virtue?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-07)Recent literature on tax administration in poor countries suggests there are virtues of allowing fiscal corruption. By strengthening the bargaining power of corrupt tax officers, it is argued that tax evasion may be ... -
Five essays on credibility, monetary policy rules and inflation targeting
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A flying start or no effect? : long term consequences of maternal time investments in children during their first year of life
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-10)We study the impact of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year of her life. In particular, we examine a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave entitlements in Norway. ... -
Forced board changes : evidence from Norway
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Foreign aid and domestic politics : implications for aid selectivity
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-06)The links between foreign aid and policies in developing countries have been at the forefront of the policy debate for decades. An emerging consensus touts aid selectivity as the solution to the failures of conditionality. ... -
Foreign aid and international public goods : incentives and strategic behavior
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-08)This paper considers a stylized model where a donor and a recipient government derive utility from a public good (for example consumption among the poor or defense capacity in the recipient country), in addition to a ...