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Quality Regulation and Competition: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets
(DP SAM;20/2018, Working paper, 2018-09)We study the effects of quality regulation on market outcomes by exploiting the staggered phase-in of bioequivalence requirements for generic drugs in Chile. We estimate that the number of drugs in the market decreased by ... -
Samuel Pufendorf and Ludvig Holberg on Political Economy
(DP SAM;15/2017, Working paper, 2017)My interest in the history of economic thought goes several decades back. My studies in the Dano-Norwegian history of economic thought brought me to Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754). As many of you are aware of Holberg is known ... -
Seasonal Social Preferences.
(DP SAM;4/2017, Working paper, 2017-03)Christmas is when people are expected to act selflessly for the well-being of others, but are people actually more altruistic at this time of the year? Responding to this question poses a challenge because of the confounding ... -
Should the marginal tax rate be negative? Ragnar Frisch on the socially optimal amount of work.
(DP SAM;1/2017, Working paper, 2017-01-26)In the late 1940s, Ragnar Frisch published two articles in Norwegian that constitute a pioneering attempt to apply welfare economics to a problem of economic policy. The main contention of the articles is that there exists ... -
Taking the competitor’s pill: when combination therapies enter pharmaceutical markets
(DP SAM;19/2023, Working paper, 2023-11-22)We study the competitive effects of combination therapies in pharmaceutical markets, which crucially hinge on the additional therapeutic value of combinatory use of drugs and the therapeutic substitutability with the most ... -
Talent Discovery, Layoff Risk and Unemployment Insurance
(DP SAM;11/2017, Working paper, 2017-08)In talent-intensive jobs, workers’ performance reveals their quality. This enhances productivity and wages, but also increases layoff risk. If workers cannot resign from their jobs, firms can insure them via severance pay. ... -
The (un)compromise effect
(DP SAM;10/2018, Working paper, 2018-05)The compromise effect—i.e., the preference for the middle option—is an established bias in behavioral economics, but has not been experimentally validated in the field. In the current study I test the compromise effect ... -
The Effects of a Day Off from Retail Price Competition: Evidence on Consumer Behavior and Firm Performance in Gasoline Retailing.
(DP SAM;1/2018, Working paper, 2018-01)First, we analyze how regular days off from competition and a time-dependent price pattern affect firm performance. Second, we examine the effects on firms' profitability from consumers’ changing search- and timing behavior. ... -
The gender wage gap in developed countries
(DP SAM;09/2017, Working paper, 2017)Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with ... -
The Impact of Paid Maternity Leave on Maternal Health
(DP SAM;4/2018, Working paper, 2018-03)We examine the impact of the introduction of paid maternity leave in Norway in 1977 on maternal health. Before the policy reform, mothers were eligible for 12 weeks of unpaid leave. Mothers giving birth after July 1, 1977 ... -
The merit primacy effect
(DP SAM;6/2017, Working paper, 2017)Do people give primacy to merit when luck partly determines earnings? This paper reports from a novel experiment where third-party spectators have to decide whether to redistribute from a high-earner to a low-earner in ... -
The Role of Parenthood on the Gender Gap among Top Earners
(DP SAM;9/2018, Working paper, 2018-04)Is the wage penalty due to motherhood larger among highly qualified women? In this paper, we study the effect of parenthood on the careers of high-achieving women relative to high-achieving men in a set of high-earning ... -
The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence From a College Expansion Reform
(DP SAM;16/2018, Working paper, 2018-08)We examine the labor market consequences of an exogenous increase in the supply of skilled labor in several cities in Norway, resulting from the construction of new colleges in the 1970s. We find that skilled wages ... -
Time-Dependency in Producers’ Price Adjustments: Evidence from Micro Panel Data.
(DP SAM;12/2018, Working paper, 2018-06)Existing micro evidence of firms’ price changes tends to show a downward sloping hazard rate – the longer the price of a product has remained the same, the less likely it is that the price will change. Using a panel of ... -
War of attrition with affiliated values.
(DP SAM;16/2017, Working paper, 2017)We study the war of attrition between two players when the players’ signals are binary and affiliated. Our model covers both the case of common values and affiliated private values. We characterize the unique symmetric ... -
What limits the powerful in imposing the morality of their authority?
(DP SAM;18/2017, Working paper, 2017-10)This paper models a game between an authority, seeking to implement its preferred morality, and a parental generation, seeking to socialize a younger generation into the their own morality. The authority chooses a coercion ... -
Why do committees work?
(DP SAM;18/2023, Working paper, 2023-11-21)We report on the results of an experiment designed to disentangle behavioral biases in information aggregation of committees. Subjects get private signals about the state of world, send binary messages, and finally vote ... -
You’ve got mail: A randomised field experiment on tax evasion.
(DP SAM;10/2017, Working paper, 2017-06)We report from a large-scale randomized field experiment conducted on a unique sample of more than 15 000 taxpayers in Norway, who were likely to have misreported their foreign income. We find that the inclusion of a ...