Browsing Department of Economics by Title
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Towards a competitive society? : the promotion of competition as a goal of economic policy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-04)This paper discusses the problems involved in considering competition policy as a separate area of economic policy. Two problems are given special attention. The first is the doubtful efficiency gain from enforcing ... -
Trade and development : is south-south co-operation a feasible strategy?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-10)The first part of this article gives a brief overview of the main problems facing the developing countries in the present international trading system, and reviews the debate on import substitution vs. export promotion. ... -
Trade and multinationals : the effect of economic integration on taxation and tax revenue
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-12)The rising importance of multinationals in the world economy has been accompanied by a rise in trade between affiliates of multinationals located in different countries, and by profits being shifted to low tax countries. ... -
Trade crisis? What trade crisis?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)We investigate the 2008–2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. Belgian exports and imports mostly fell because of smaller quantities sold and unit prices charged rather than fewer firms, ... -
Trading off Welfare and Immigration in Europe
(Discussion paper;22/15, Working paper, 2015-10)In this paper, we explore the trade-off Europe faces when choosing between immigration from poor countries and welfare spending. Using data from the European Social Survey on sixteen countries from 2002{2012, we document ... -
Turbulens i stor høyde
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Det er seks år siden verdens finansmarkeder klappet sammen og verdensøkonomien falt utfor stupet. Krisen som fulgte, er ennå ikke over. Veksten i verdensøkonomien som helhet er langt svakere og mer ujevn enn før; i deler ... -
TV advertising, programming investments, and product-market oligopoly
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-06)We present a model of the TV-advertising market that encompasses both the product markets and the market for TV programs. We argue that the TV industry has several idiosyncratic characteristics that need to be modeled, ... -
Two centuries of economic growth: Norwegian GDP 1816-2020
(DP SAM;10/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)Existing historical GDP series for Norway do not always coincide with our historical knowledge of the economic development. This is to a large extent a result of lack of calculations from the production side and in addition ... -
Two hegemonies – two technological regimes : American and Norwegian whaling in the 19th and 20th Century
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-09)The 19th century whaling industry was dominated by the United States while the 20th century industry had its origins in Norway and was dominated for years by that nation. The focus of the paper, is to explore the ... -
Two part tariffs with partial product bundling
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001)When a firm operates in an industry with very large differences in consumers' willingness to pay for the service it offers, it faces a challenge in the pricing decision. It wants to engage in price discrimination, but ... -
Two-part pricing, consumer heterogeneity and Cournot competition
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001)We analyze two-part tariffs in an oligopoly, where each firm commits to a quantity and a fixed fee prior to the determination of unit prices. In the case of homogeneous consumers, Harrison and Kline (2001) showed that the ... -
Two-part tariffs with partial unbundling
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)The paper explores second degree price discrimination in a multidimensional good context. There are two types of consumers with demand described by a two-dimensional vector, a quantity dimension and a service attribute ... -
Two-part tariffs with quality degradation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-03)There is a gap between the recommendations of the theory of second degree price discrimination and the practices of firms that target consumer segments with varying willingness to pay with two or more distinct tar- iffs. ... -
Two-part tariffs, consumer heterogeneity and Cournot competition
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)We analyze two-part tariffs in oligopoly, where each firm commits to a certain quantity. The model is an extension of the one introduced in Har (2001). We show that their main results are reversed when the model is extended ... -
Types of absence from work and wages of young workers with apprenticeship training.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: ... -
The tyranny of non-aggregation versus the tyranny of aggregation in social choices : a real dilemma
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-12)Can a trifle gain to sufficiently many well-off justify imposing a much larger sacrifice on the worst-off? We show that if one answers negatively to such a question, one is forced to accept the maximin principle and give ... -
A U-shaped Europe? : a simulation study of industrial location
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-09)This paper uses a full-scale CGE-model - calibrated on 1992 data - to investigate the effects of European integration on the location of industrial production. Our results reveal large differences among individual ... -
Uncertainty in the theory of public finance
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-09)This paper discusses the role that the economics of uncertainty has played in the theory of public finance. From being mostly concerned with its choice-theoretic foundations in the 1950s and ‘60s, the theory of expected ... -
Under pressure? : the effect of peers on outcomes of young adults
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-05)A variety of public campaigns, including the “Just Say No” campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to “Just Say No to Drugs”, are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. ... -
Underrepresentation, Quotas and Quality: A dynamic argument for reform
(SAM DP;08/2023, Working paper, 2023-05)The trade-off between increased representation and perceived quality is central to the debate on how to address underrepresentation in high-profile professions. We address this trade-off using a dynamic model of career ...