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Convergence between the Baltic and the Nordic economies: Some reflections based on new data for the Baltic countries
(DP SAM;05/2024, Working paper, 2024-04-18)This short paper uses recent estimates of GDP per capita for the Baltic countries for the 1919-2020(22) period to test for convergence between the Baltic and the Nordic economies. Drawing from the methodology used in Bernard ... -
Corporate tax systems and cross country profit shifting : formula apportionment vs. separate accounting
(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
(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 ... -
Corruption and competition for resources
(Discussion paper;18/2012, Working paper, 2012-09)An increasing share of world FDI is carried out by multinationals from developing countries. These investors may have objectives and constraints that differ from their developed country counterparts. In this paper we ... -
Corruption and market reform
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-05)Market reforms in developing and transition economies have sometimes failed to deliver the desired welfare effects. Corruption may be an important reason for the inefficiency of market reforms, such as privatization ... -
Crime and punishment : when tougher antitrust enforcement leads to higher overcharge
(Discussion paper;4/2013, Working paper, 2013-02)The economics of crime and punishment postulates that higher punishment leads to lower crime levels, or less severe crime. It is however hard to get empirical support for this intuitive relationship. This paper offers ... -
A crisis that never came : the decline of the European Antarctic whaling industry in the 1950s and -60s
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Crisis? What crisis? : the expansion of Norwegian shipping in the interwar period
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Cross-border mergers and domestic wages: integrating positive 'spillover' effects and negative 'bargaining' effects
(Discussion papers;10/2011, Working paper, 2011-06)The existing literature concerning the impact of cross-border merger activity on domestic wages can be split into two camps: 1) those focusing on positive ‘spillover’ effects; 2) those focusing on negative ‘bargaining’ ... -
Currency gifts, convergence and divergence in two neighbouring economies : draft
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-01)Currency gifts have proven to be a mixed blessing, as positive income shocks are often followed by financial problems and slow economic growth rates. Norway has twice been granted significant currency gifts: Firstly, ... -
Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?
(DP SAM;04/2019, Working paper, 2019-02)There are striking differences in inequality and redistribution between the United States and Scandinavia. To study whether there are corresponding differences in social preferences, we conducted a large-scale international ... -
Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?
(DP SAM;18/2016, Working paper, 2016-11-29)There is a striking difference in income inequality and redistributive policies between the United States and Scandinavia. To study whether there is a corresponding cross-country difference in social preferences, we ... -
Decentralization and the fate of minorities
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-12)This paper analyses the welfare effects of a change from centralized to decentralized political authority. The potential disadvantage with decentralization in our model is that local dominant groups with rather “extreme” ... -
The demand for high-skilled workers and immigration policy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-11)This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are ... -
The Demand for News: Accuracy Concerns versus Belief Confirmation Motives
(SAM DP;01/2023, Working paper, 2023-01-12)We examine the relative importance of accuracy concerns and belief confirmation motives in driving the demand for news. In experiments with US respondents, we first vary beliefs about whether an outlet reports the news in ... -
Demand patterns for treatment insurance in Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-04)In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private ... -
Demand-side spillovers and semi-collusion in the mobile communications market
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)We analyze roaming policy in the market for mobile telecommunications. Firms undertake investments in network infrastructure to increase geographical coverage, capacity in a given area, or functionality. Prior to ... -
Designing social security : a portfolio choice approach
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)Public social security systems may provide diversification of risks to individuals’ life-time income. Capturing that a pay-as-you-go program (paygo) may be considered as a “quasiasset”, we study the optimal size of the ... -
Destructive competition : factionalism and rent-seeking in Iran
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-02)Empirical evidence shows that countries richly endowed with natural resources like oil and gas tend to have slower economic growth than resource poor countries. The present paper focuses on rentseeking as a source of ... -
Destructive competition : oil and rent seeking in Iran
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-04)In countries with poorly developed institutions, rent seeking may impose serious costs for the economy. Our analysis demonstrates how rent seeking distorts the economy through two channels. First, there is the direct ...