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National versus international mergers in unionised oligopoly
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-06)We analyse how the presence of trade unions affects the pattern of mergers in an international oligopoly and the welfare implications thereof. We find that wages for the merger participants are always lower when they ... -
Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices
(SAM DP;15/2023, Working paper, 2023-06-30)This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector—the Norwegian petroleum industry—on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational ... -
Navigating through torpedo attacks and enemy raiders: Merchant shipping and freight rates during World War I
(SAM;07/2017, Working paper, 2017)During World War I ocean freight rates rose to extraordinary levels. Using a new monthly dataset it is shown that freight rates can be well explained by economic activity, commodity prices, war risk and world tonnage in ... -
Negotiation under possible third party settlement
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The neighbourhood is not what it used to be : has there been equalisation of opportunity across families and communities in Norway?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)Parents influence their children's adult outcomes through economic and genetic endowments, transmission of cultural values and social skills, and through choice of residential location. Using a variance decomposition ... -
Nepotism vs. Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Academia (1088–1800)
(DP SAM;09/2021, Working paper, 2021-03-16)We argue that the waning of nepotism in academia bolstered scientific production in pre-industrial Europe. We build a database of families of scholars (1088–1800), measure their scientific output, and develop a general ... -
Network ownership and optimal tariffs for natural gas transport
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-10)This paper addresses the issue of national optimal tariffs for transportation of natural gas in a setting where national gas production in its entirety is exported to end-user markets abroad. In a situation where the ... -
A new equity condition for infinite utility streams and the possibility of being Paretian
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New evidence on the causes of the fluctuations in ocean freight rates in the 1850s : harvest failures, business cycles, and the Crimean War
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-12)This paper takes a critical look at the hypothesis that the Crimean War was the main cause of the surge in ocean freight rates in the first part of the 1850s. The analysis is based on newly constructed monthly data on ... -
Newspaper Differentiation and Investments in Journalism: The Role of Tax Policy
(Discussion Papers;16/2011, Working paper, 2011-09)Many countries levy reduced-rate indirect taxes on newspapers, with proclaimed policy goals of stimulating investment in journalism and ensuring low newspaper prices. However, by taking into account the fact that the ... -
Newspapers and advertising : the effects of ad-valorem taxation under duopoly
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-12)Newspapers are two-sided platforms that sell their product both to readers and advertisers. Media firms in general, and newspapers in particular, are considered important providers of information, culture and language ... -
Norway's interwar tanker expansion : a reappraisal
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-10)The topic of the article is the Norwegian expansion within oil tanker shipping in the interwar period, which is analysed on the basis of new empirical evidence. By means of a purpose-built database, the basis for ... -
Norwegian GDP by industry 1830-1930
(Discussion paper;16/15, Working paper, 2015-08)The present paper offers new knowledge of historical national accounting in Norway in several ways. Firstly, a new and novel set of annual gross domestic product series by industry are presented for the period 1830‐1930. ... -
Norwegian policy response to the international economic disintegration during the inter-war years
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Offshore Industries as Growth Sector: The Norwegian Case
(SAM DP;02/2023, Working paper, 2023-03)Writers on Norwegian economic history often claim that marine and maritime industries, i.e., the offshore sector, played a major role for value creation in the Norwegian economy for centuries. However, little has been done ... -
Oh Mother: The Neglected Impact of School Disruptions
(DP SAM;30/2018, Working paper, 2018-12)Temporary school closures (TSC) represent a major challenge to policymakers across the globe due to their potential impact on instructional time and student achievement. A neglected but equally important question relates ... -
Older and wiser? : birth order and IQ of young men
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-08)While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children’s outcomes such as education and earnings, the evidence on the effects of birth order on IQ is decidedly mixed. This paper uses a large dataset ... -
Older or wealthier?: the impact of age adjustment on cross-sectional inequality measures
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-03)Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, a concern is that one confuses older with wealthier. We propose ... -
On the competitive effect of informative advertising
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-10)This paper analyses the competitive effects of informative advertising. The seminal work by Grossman and Shapiro (1984) show that informative advertising results in lower prices and that firms may benefit from advertising ... -
On the Doorstep of Adulthood: Empowering Economic and Fertility Choices of Young Women
(SAM DP;15/2022, Working paper, 2022-10)We report from a large-scale randomized controlled trial of women empowerment in Tanzania investigating how two different empowerment strategies, economic empowerment and reproductive health empowerment, shape the economic ...