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Does Reference Pricing Drive Out Generic Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets? Evidence from a Policy Reform
(Discussion paper;11/15, Working paper, 2015-06)In this paper we study the impact of reference pricing (RP) on entry of generic firms in the pharmaceutical market. For given prices, RP increases generic firms' expected profit, but since RP also stimulates price ... -
Does the tax system encourage too much education?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-07)The Nordic countries have dual income taxation, with a proportional tax on capital income and a progressive tax on labour income. Nielsen and Sørensen (1997) argue that this asymmetric treatment of the two types of income ... -
Does Wealth Reduce Support for Redistribution? Evidence from an Ethiopian Housing Lottery
(DP SAM;18/2020, Working paper, 2020-09)We provide causal evidence of how an increase in wealth affects support for redistribution and beliefs about the causes of poverty. Exploiting the variation in wealth created by an Ethiopian housing lottery, we show that ... -
Does Your Doctor Matter? Doctor Quality and Patient Outcomes
(SAM DP;08/2022, Working paper, 2022-06)We estimate doctor value-added and provide evidence on the distribution of physician quality in an entire country, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners ... -
Domestic labour markets and foreign direct investment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-06)We study how the labour market and industry uncertainty affect the investment decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs). In an uncertain business climate, MNEs must take account of the future in deciding where to ... -
Domestic Violence and the Mental Health and Well-being of Victims and Their Children
(SAM DP;21/2022, Working paper, 2021-12-14)Almost one third of women worldwide report some form of physical or sexual violence by a partner in their lifetime, yet little is known about the mental health and well-being effects for either victims or their children. ... -
The dual income tax and firms’ income shifting through the choice of organizational form and real capital investments
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-07)The dual income tax provides the self-employed entrepreneur with huge incentives to participate in tax minimizing income shifting to have more of his income taxed as capital income. The Norwegian split model is designed ... -
Dynamics of First-Time Patenting Firms
(SAM DP;11/2022, Working paper, 2022-08)This paper investigates firm dynamics in the period before, during, and after an event consisting of a first published patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office ... -
Economic growth and purchasing power parities in the Nordic countries 1830-1910
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-07)The present paper examines new estimates of GDP for the five Nordic countries 1830-1910 in terms of economic growth and purchasing power parities. It concludes that significant economic growth took place during the period. ... -
Economic integration and redistributive taxation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-04)We set up a simple political economy model where economic integration raises the profitability of multinational firms. In this setting redistributive taxation may rise following economic integration, if the effects of ... -
Economics for peace : Léon Walras and the Nobel peace prize
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-02)This paper is an account of the history of the attempt by Léon Walras to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1906. It describes Walras’ moves to get three of his Lausanne colleagues to nominate him for the Prize, the ... -
Economies of scale in European manufacturing revisited
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-06)We test for internal and external economies of scale in European manufacturing employing a more disaggregated data set than what has been used in earlier analyses, and aim to separate externalities from common business ... -
Education and family background : mechanisms and policies
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-05)In every society for which we have data, people’s educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in ... -
Education and fertility : evidence from a natural experiment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)In many developed countries a decline in fertility has occurred. This development has been attributed to greater education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as both fertility and education have ... -
Education and mobility
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-09)We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based on a quasi-exogenous staged Norwegian school reform, and register data on the whole population. Based ... -
Education Research and Administrative Data
(Discussion paper;24/15, Working paper, 2015-10)Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just ... -
Educational attainment and family background
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-04)This paper analyses the effect of aspects of family background, such as family income and parental education, on the educational attainment of persons born from 1967 to 1972. Family income is measured at different periods ... -
The effect of cross-border shopping on commodity tax revenue: Results from a natural experiment
(SAM DP;09/2022, Working paper, 2022-06-20)We use grocery data from Norway and COVID-19 border closings to gauge the effect of cross-border shopping on commodity tax revenue. Detailed store-category level data identify differential treatment effects that depend on ... -
The Effect of Gender-Targeted Transfers: Experimental Evidence From India
(DP SAM;16/2020, Working paper, 2020-09)Women are the primary recipients of many welfare programs around the world. Despite frequent claims that targeting women induces beneficial consumption shifting and gender equality, the empirical evidence on the effect of ... -
The Effect of Labor Market Competition on Firms, Workers, and Communities
(SAM DP;17/2022, Working paper, 2022-11)This paper isolates the impact of labor market competition on firms, workers, and communities. A shock to labor mobility from Sweden to Norway caused a substantial increase in labor competition for Swedish firms on the ...