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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 ... -
On the Effect of Parallel Trade on Manufacturers’ and Retailers’ Profits in the Pharmaceutical Sector.
(DP SAM;3/2018, Working paper, 2018-02)Differences in regulated pharmaceutical prices within the European Economic Area create arbitrage opportunities that pharmacy retailers can use through parallel imports. For prescription drugs under patent, such provision ... -
On the importance of openness for industrial policy design in developing countries
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)How should industrial policy be designed in developing countries? Should industrial policy be targeted to a few sectors or be more broad based and therefore more neutral? Our theoretical analysis demonstrates that access ... -
On the perils of stabilizing prices when agents are learning
(Discussion paper;01/15, Working paper, 2015-01)We show that price level stabilization is not optimal in an economy where agents have incomplete knowledge about the policy implemented and try to learn it. A systematically more accommodative policy than what agents expect ... -
On the perils of stabilizing prices when agents are learning
(DP SAM;22/2018, Working paper, 2018)The main advantage of price level stabilization compared with in ation stabilization rests on the central bank's ability to shape expectations. We show that stabilizing prices is no longer optimal when the central bank ... -
On the political economy of resource rents in polarized societies
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)The present paper analyses how resource rents may affect political outcomes in a polarized society, where groups hold conflicting views on economic policy. A politically dominant group decides whether or not to include ... -
On the possibility of Paretian egalitarianism
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-07)Paretian egalitarianism holds that equality should be promoted, but only when this does not conflict with certain (Pareto) efficiency considerations. Like leximin, it has the attractive feature of never favoring leveling ... -
On the profitability of cross-border mergers
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)A horizontal merger is unlikely to be profitable unless it involves the large majority of firms in an industry. This well established result was developed by Salant et al (1983) in a closed economy setting. The present ... -
On the significance of pre-existing distortions for the costs of environmental regulation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-05)Recently, several papers have shown that environmental taxes are more costly in an economy with preexisting distortions than in an undistorted economy. This result applies for equal percent reductions from different ... -
On the workings of a cartel : evidence from the Norwegian cement industry
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-06)Using the institutional set-up of the Norwegian cement industry, in particular its sharing rule, we are able to identify the workings of a cartel in some detail. We focus on the two problems that any cartel faces: deciding ... -
On the workings of a cartel : evidence from the Norwegian cement industry
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003)Using the institutional set-up of the Norwegian cement industry, in particular its sharing rule, we are able to identify the workings of a cartel in some detail. Given data on prices, production, and exports, we are able ...