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Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China
(DP SAM;01/2021, Working paper, 2021-01-07)Government regulations are often imperfectly enforced by public officials. In this study, we investigate if real-time monitoring of policy outcomes can improve enforcement of existing regulations by exploring the introduction ... -
Infrastructure and industrial location : a dual technology approach
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)The paper investigates how differences in infrastructure quality may affect industrial location between countries. Employing a dualtechnology model, the main result of the paper is the somewhat surprising conclusion ... -
Innocuous Exam Features? The Impact of Answer Placement on High-Stakes Test Performance and College Admissions
(DP SAM;04/2024, Working paper, 2024-04-14)We exploit randomness in college entrance exams in Colombia to study how the placement of answers impacts multiple-choice test results and access to college. Using administrative data, we find that: first, applicants are ... -
Insurance against Income Shocks, Parental Investments, and Child Development
(DP SAM;10/2024, Working paper, 2024-06-11)Faced with income shocks, households may be unable to smooth their consumption, because of limited insurance possibilities. Likewise, it may also be difficult to smooth investments in children. This could have large ... -
Integration and transition : scenarios for location of production and trade in Europe
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-05)Applying a newly developed CGE-model, we present scenarios for the future economic geography of Europe. The model divides the world into ten regions, of which five are European, and there are 14 industries, of which 12 ... -
Integration in the English wheat market 1770-1820
(Discussion paper;12/2013, Working paper, 2013-06)Cointegration analysis has been used widely to quantify market integration through price arbitrage. We show that total price variability can be decomposed into: (i) magnitude of price shocks; (ii) correlation of price ... -
Inter-firm price coordination in a two-sided market
(Discussion paper;16/2014, Working paper, 2014-05)In many two-sided markets we observe that there is a common distributor on one side of the market. One example is the TV industry, where TV channels choose advertising prices to maximize own profit and typically ... -
Interactions in Public Policies: Spousal Responses and Program Spillovers of Welfare Reforms
(DP SAM;20/2020, Working paper, 2020-09)Anticipating the labor market effects of welfare reforms is difficult due to public policy interactions across programs and among household members. Specifically, changes to one program may affect individual take-up of ... -
Intergenerational mobility : trends across the earnings distribution
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-02)The analysis, based on register data for Norwegian cohorts born 1950, 1955, and 1960, shows that the intergenerational earnings mobility is high. Using quantile regression, mobility is found to be lower at the lower end ... -
Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income
(Discussion paper;23/15, Working paper, 2015-10)We extend the standard intergenerational mobility literature by modelling individual outcomes as a function of the whole history of parental income, using data from Norway. We find that, conditional on permanent income, ... -
Intergenerational risk sharing by means of pay-as-you-go : an investigation of alternative mechanisms
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-06)A pay-as-you-go (paygo) pension program may provide intergenerational pooling of risks to individuals’ labor and capital income over the life cycle. By means of illuminating closed form solutions we demonstrate that the ... -
Intergenerational risk sharing by means of pay-as-you-go programs : an investigation of alternative mechanisms
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-06)A pay-as-you-go (paygo) pension program may provide intergenerational pooling of risks to individuals’ labor and capital income over the life cycle. By means of illuminating closed form solutions we demonstrate that the ... -
Intermittent Price Changes in Production Plants: Empirical Evidence using Monthly Data.
(DP SAM;22, Working paper, 2016-12)The price-setting behaviour of manufacturing plants is examined using a large panel of monthly surveyed plant- and product-specific prices. The sample shows a high frequency of zero changes, relatively small price changes, ... -
Internal wage dispersion and firm performance : white-collar evidence
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-05)Is internal wage dispersion good for firm productivity, or do internal wage differences break the conception of fairness and cause counterproductive behavior among workers? Contrary to previous empirical work that has ... -
International aspects of public goods provision
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-02)This paper considers the extension of the theory of public consumption goods to an international context with public goods whose benefits are global. In one version of the model there are no restrictions on lump sum ... -
International capital mobility and the taxation of portfolio investments
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-06)This paper provides an overview of problems related to the taxation of portfolio investments in an open economy. It starts by outlining empirical results on how taxation affects household portfolio structure and proceeds ... -
International competition for multinational investment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-08)We examine the economic justification for providing investment subsidies to foreign-owned multinationals. These provide employment opportunities and generate demand for domestic intermediate inputs, produced by domestic ... -
International complementarities in the Internet : should local access prices be regulated?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-05)The Internet can be seen as the convergence of different industries, such as telecommunication, software and media, into an international oligopoly offering complementary products. In most of these industries we have ... -
International income inequality : measuring PPP bias by estimating Engel curves for food
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-07)Price-adjusted data on national incomes applied in cross-country compar- isons are measured with bias. By studying micro data, this paper ¯nds that the bias is systematic: the poorer a country is, the more its income ... -
International trade with competitiveness : effects in R&D
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-02)