Browsing Discussion papers (SAM) by Subject "VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210::Samfunnsøkonomi: 212"
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Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-08)We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public utilities), using a Hotelling framework, in the presence of sluggish demand. We take a differential game ... -
Competition and quality in regulated markets: a differential-game approach
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-02)We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public utilities) taking a differential game approach, in which quality is a stock variable. Using a Hotelling ... -
Competition and waiting times in hospital markets
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-03)This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that differ in (geographical) location and, potentially, waiting time, and two types of patients; high-benefit ... -
A crisis that never came : the decline of the European Antarctic whaling industry in the 1950s and -60s
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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 ... -
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 ... -
The determinants of economic growth in European regions
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-12)We use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to evaluate the robustness of determinants of economic growth in a new dataset of 255 European regions in the 1995-2005 period. We use three different specifications based on (1) the ... -
Disability compensation and responsibility
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-12)It is a central political goal to secure disabled individuals the same opportunities as others to pursue their conception of a good life. This goal reflects an ambition to combine an egalitarian and a liberal moral intuition. ... -
Do prices reflect short-term output fluctuations? : empirical evidence from a small open raw material based economy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-01)Within the framework of Keynesian economic theory it is widely taken for granted that short term output fluctuations are mirrored in corresponding fluctuations in prices. By examining data on prices and output for a small ... -
Do slotting allowances harm retail competition?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-09)Slotting allowances are fees paid by manufacturers to get access to retailers’ shelf space. Both in the USA and Europe, the use of slotting allowances has attracted attention in the general press as well as among policy ... -
Does grief transfer across generations? In-utero deaths and child outcomes
(Discussion paper;23/2014, Working paper, 2014-06)While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The effects of different strategic variables in non-cooperative fisheries games
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-10)In this paper we use stock size, harvest quantity and fishing effort, respectively, as strategic variables. We model a two agent (nations) non-cooperative fishery game, where the agents harvest a common fish stock. The ... -
Efficiency, equality and reciprocity in social preferences : a comparison of students and representative population
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-11)The debate between Engelmann and Strobel (2004, 2006) and Fehr, Naef, and Schmidt (2006) highlights the important question of the extent to which lab experiments on student populations can serve to identify the motivational ... -
Endogenous average cost based access pricing
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-10)We consider an industry where a downstream competitor requires access to an upstream facility controlled by a vertically integrated and regulated incumbent. The literature on access pricing assumes the access price to ... -
Energy storage and renewable energy
(Discussion paper;18/2014, Working paper, 2014-05)I consider an economy with fossil fuel and renewable energy and energy storage, and search for the conditions that lead to welfare improvements when energy is stored. I then solve for the optimal decision rule and analyze ... -
Enforcement vs deterrence in merger control : can remedies lead to lower welfare?
(Discussion paper;7/2014, Working paper, 2014-03)This paper deals with the enforcement of merger policy, and aims to study how merger remedies affect the deterrence accomplished by controlling mergers. We determine the optimal frequency of investigations launched by ...