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Sharing Mare Nostrum: An analysis of Mediterranean maritime history articles in English-language journals
(Discussion paper;07/15, Working paper, 2015-04)This discussion paper is a follow-up to a previous bibliometric analysis of articles published in The International Journal of Maritime History and maritime-themed articles published in other economic and business history ... -
Shipping in dire straits: New evidence on trends and cycles in coal freights from Britain, 1919-1939
(SAM;5/2016, Working paper, 2016-04-07)New monthly freight rate indices for 13 coal trade routes from Britain 1919-1939 are presented. The new indices form the basis of a review of the interwar freight markets and their relationship to the timing and severity ... -
Should governments help winners or losers?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-10)One central result in the strategic trade literature is that governments should not support domestic ”losers” but domestic ”winners”. We show that when first-mover advantages are taken into account, the reverse holds, ... -
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 ... -
Single-product versus uniform SSNIPs
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-01)It is common to apply a SSNIP test with a uniform price increase on all products in the candidate market. We show that in situations with asymmetries – for example one product having a limited sale – a uniform SSNIP test ... -
Size-based input price discrimination under endogenous inside options
(DP SAM;06/2021, Working paper, 2021-03)Individual retailers may choose to invest in a substitute to a dominant supplier’s products (inside option) as a way of improving its position towards the supplier. Given that a large retailer has stronger investment ... -
Skill composition : exploring a wage-based skill measure
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)This study explores a wage-based skill measure using information from a wage equation. Evidence from matched employer-employee data show that skill is attributable to variables other than educational length, for instance ... -
Small family, smart family? : family size and the IQ scores of young men
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-08)How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of educational attainment and future labor market success; as a result, understanding the determinants of ... -
Smartphone Bans, Student Outcomes and Mental Health
(DP SAM;01/2024, Working paper, 2024-02)How smartphone usage affects well-being and learning among children and adolescents is a concern for schools, parents, and policymakers. Combining detailed administrative data with survey data on middle schools’ smartphone ... -
Social origins of a work ethic : norms, mobility and urban unemployment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-03)Neighbourhood effects and worker mobility have been proposed as explanations for the pattern of employment in cities. This paper presents a the oretical framework within which the joint impact of these two factors can ... -
Social security and future generations
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-12)We survey the effects of social security in the form of mandatory public pension programs on the intergenerational distribution of tax burdens, income, various risks and welfare. The first part considers basic theoretical ... -
Social security reforms and early retirement
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-09)In order to stimulate labor market participation and improve the financial viability of the social security systems, many recent reform proposals in various OECD economies suggest to scale down the non-actuarial parts ... -
Socioeconomic Status and Physicians’ Treatment Decisions
(Discussion paper;12/15, Working paper, 2015-06)This paper aims at shedding light on the social gradient by studying the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and provision of health care. Using administrative data on services provided by General Practitioners ... -
Solidarity and Fairness in Times of Crisis
(DP SAM;06/2020, Working paper, 2020-05-14)In a large-scale pre-registered survey experiment with a representative sample of more than 8,000 Americans, we examine how the COVID-19 pandemic causally affects people’s solidarity and fairness. We randomly manipulate ... -
Some reflections on the role of moral reasoning in economics
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-11)People seem to be motivated by moral ideas and in this paper I discuss how we should take this into account in positive and normative economics. I review alternative ways of modelling moral motivation and reasoning in ... -
Some reflections on the role of moral reasoning in economics
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003)People seem to be motivated by moral ideas and in this paper I discuss how we should take this into account in positive and normative economics. I review alternative ways of modelling moral motivation and reasoning in ... -
Sources of earnings dispersion in a linked employer-employee dataset : evidence from Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-09)We estimate a standard human capital earnings model, augmented to allow for different firmspecific wage premia. The earnings of an individual depend on her human capital bundle and the earnings mark-up of the firm she ... -
Sources of measurement errors in earnings data : new estimates of intergenerational elasticities
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)Using Norwegian intergenerational data with a substantial part of the life-cycle earnings of children and almost the entire life-cycle earnings for their fathers, we present new estimates of intergenerational mobility. ... -
Spatial management of a fishery under parameter uncertainty
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-06)Spatial management of a fishery under parameter uncertainty is analyzed. The habitat is divided into two areas, and the effort level in the two areas may be different. The migration of biomass between the areas follows a ... -
Spillovers from US monetary policy: Evidence from a time-varying parameter GVAR model
(DP SAM;31/2018, Working paper, 2018-12-21)This paper develops a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility to analyze whether international spillovers of US monetary policy have changed over time. The proposed ...