Browsing Discussion papers (SAM) by Title
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Fast times at Ridgemont High? : the effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage births
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-09)Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this ... -
FDI, R&D and endogenous competitiveness
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-01)We analyze the influence of endogenous competitiveness on multinational activity. Competitiveness is endogenized by assuming that firms differ on R&D commitment power, i.e.: some firms are leaders in R&D. We show that ... -
Feeding the people: grain yields and agricultural expansion in Qing China
(DP SAM;27/2018, Working paper, 2018-12-13)We use modern econometric methods to analyze a recently-released sample of 3 000 Chinese grain yields. We find significant variation across provinces and persistent increases in yields over time – albeit slow compared to ... -
Fertility, Partner Choice, and Human Capital
(DP SAM;11/2024, Working paper, 2024-07)This paper generates new insights into the effect of education on fertility and partner choice across multiple generations. Using an intensity-of-treatment design, we leverage population-wide panel data for Norway in ... -
Financial Instability and Banking Crises in a small open economy
(SAM DP;18/2021, Working paper, 2021-11)The present paper seeks to investigate the importance of financial instability during four banking crises, with focus on the small open economy of Norway. The crises elaborated on are the Post First world war crisis of the ... -
Financing of media firms : does competition matter?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-01)This paper analyses how competition between media firms influences the way they are financed. In a setting where monopoly media firms choose to be completely financed by consumer payments, competition may lead the ... -
Firm exit, vintage effect and the business cycle in Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-12)In spite of the large and growing literature on producer heterogeneity and firm exit behavior, little attention has been paid to the vintage capital theory of firm exits as an alternative hypothesis to learning/selection. ... -
First-best optimality in capital income taxation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-10)In case of risk, especially aggregate risk which cannot be insured, the literature states that for achieving first-best optimality state-dependent lumpsum taxes are absolutely necessary. However, we show in a two-asset ... -
Fiscal corruption : a vice or a virtue?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-07)Recent literature on tax administration in poor countries suggests there are virtues of allowing fiscal corruption. By strengthening the bargaining power of corrupt tax officers, it is argued that tax evasion may be ... -
A flying start or no effect? : long term consequences of maternal time investments in children during their first year of life
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-10)We study the impact of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year of her life. In particular, we examine a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave entitlements in Norway. ... -
Forced board changes : evidence from Norway
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Foreign aid and domestic politics : implications for aid selectivity
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-06)The links between foreign aid and policies in developing countries have been at the forefront of the policy debate for decades. An emerging consensus touts aid selectivity as the solution to the failures of conditionality. ... -
Foreign aid and international public goods : incentives and strategic behavior
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-08)This paper considers a stylized model where a donor and a recipient government derive utility from a public good (for example consumption among the poor or defense capacity in the recipient country), in addition to a ... -
Foreign aid and sovereign credit worthiness
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-12)International financial markets are far from perfect. Because of problems related to contract enforcement borrowers often end up being rationed; the lenders tend to constrain the amount lent ex ante in order to motivate ... -
Foreign firms and host-country productivity : does the mode of entry matter?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-01)Foreign direct investment is often considered an important source of knowledge spillovers. However, results from the empirical literature relating overall foreign presence to host country productivity are ambiguous. We ... -
Formula apportionment and transfer pricing under oligopolistic competition
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-05)This paper demonstrates that under conditions of imperfect (oligopolistic) competition, a transition from separate accounting (SA) to formula apportionment (FA) does not eliminate the problem of profit shifting via ... -
Free to Fail? Paternalistic Preferences in the United States
(SAM DP;09/2023, Working paper, 2023-05-16)We study paternalistic preferences in two large-scale experiments with participants from the general population in the United States. Spectators decide whether to intervene to prevent a stakeholder, who is mistaken about ... -
From Employment to Engagement? Stable Jobs, Temporary Jobs, and Cohabiting Relationships
(DP SAM;10/2019, Working paper, 2019-04)Family formation has been substantially delayed in recent decades, and birth rates have fallen below the replacement rates in many OECD countries. Research suggests that these trends are tightly linked to recent changes ... -
From Fossil Fuels to Renewables: The Role of Electricity Storage.
(SAM;11/2016, Working paper, 2016-06-07)We analyze the role of electricity storage for technological innovations in electricity generation. We propose a directed technological change model of the electricity sector, where innovative firms develop better ... -
From the cradle to the labor market? : the effect of birth weight on adult outcomes
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-11)Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of oneyear mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether ...