• Strategy and hegemony in chemical tanker shipping, 1960-1985 

      Tenold, Stig; Murphy, Hugh (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)
      The article analyses the emergence of chemical shipping as a specialized shipping segment. In the 1950s and 1960s seaborne transport of chemicals was characterized by rapid technological development. This was based on ...
    • Striking the balance : economics and the environment 

      Sandmo, Agnar (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-10)
      The environment has many of the properties that economists associate with the concept of a public good. It has long been realized that, if left to itself, the market economy is likely to lead to an undersupply of public ...
    • Swallow this: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability 

      Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof (SAM DP;07/2023, Working paper, 2023-05-06)
      Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young ...
    • Symmetric tax competition under formula apportionment 

      Eggert, Wolfgang; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-01)
      This paper compares property taxation to a corporate income tax based on formula apportionment in a model where identical countries compete to attract capital. We find that if countries can pair a residence-based capital ...
    • Tacit collusion and international commodity taxation 

      Haufler, Andreas; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-01)
      The paper employs a model of dynamic price competition to study how international commodity taxation affects the stability of collusive agreements when producers in an international duopoly agree not to export into ...
    • Take it or leave it : optimal transfer programs, monitoring and takeup 

      Jacquet, Laurence (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-02)
    • Taking the competitor’s pill: when combination therapies enter pharmaceutical markets 

      Brekke, Kurt R.; Dalen, Dag Morten; Straume, Odd Rune (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 

      Pagano, Marco; Picariello, Luca (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. ...
    • Tax effects on education 

      Alstadsæter, Annette (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-01)
      Taxes affect the individual’s educational choice through many channels, and they have both direct and indirect effects on human capital accumulation. The structure of the tax system creates different incentive effects ...
    • Tax policy and fair inequality 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, Bertil (Discussion paper;3/2012, Working paper, 2012-02)
    • Tax responses in platform industries 

      Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-07)
      Two-sided platform firms serve distinct customer groups that are connected through interdependent demand, and include major businesses such as the media industry, banking, and the software industry. A well known result ...
    • Tax spillovers under separate accounting and formula apportionment 

      Nielsen, Søren Bo; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-05)
      It is observed in the real world that taxes matter for location decisions and that multinationals shift profits by transfer pricing. The US and Canada use Formula Apportionment (FA) to tax corporate income, and the EU ...
    • Taxation and tournaments 

      Sandmo, Agnar; Persson, Mats (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-05)
      This paper analyzes the effects of progressive taxes on labour supply and income distribution in the context of the rank-order tournament model originally developed by Lazear and Rosen (1981). We show conditions under ...
    • Taxation of uncertain business profits, private risk markets and optimal allocation of risk 

      Hagen, Kåre Petter; Sannarnes, Jan Gaute (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-02)
      In this paper we explore what happens if the government bears some of the risk through a profit tax when the risk sharing in the venture capital market is incomplete due to non-observability of effort and moral hazard. ...
    • Teaching business in Tanzania : evaluating participation and performance 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Tungodden, Bertil (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-10)
      There is increased awareness that success among small scale entrepreneurs in developing countries requires more than microfinance, and that an important limiting factor for business growth is the level of human capital ...
    • Teaching through television: Experimental evidence on entrepreneurship education in Tanzania 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Sekei, Linda Helgesson; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (Discussion paper;03/15, Working paper, 2015-02)
      Can television be used to teach and foster entrepreneurship among youth in developing countries? We report from a randomized control field experiment of an edutainment show on entrepreneurship broadcasted over almost ...
    • Technological change and the tragedy of the commons: the Lofoten fishery over hundred and thirty years 

      Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Hannesson, Rögnvaldur; Squires, Dale (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-03)
      Why did the Lofoten cod fishery in Norway – a fishery on one of the world’s richest spawning grounds - remain less productive than alternative industries until the mid-1960s, despite important modernization of the fleet ...
    • Technology sourcing and strategic foreign direct investment 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Eckel, Carsten (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-11)
      Empirical evidence suggests that there are important spillovers associated with the operations of multinational enterprises. Spillovers may occur when less advanced, local firms learn from their more advanced, foreign ...
    • Temporary bottlenecks, hydropower and acquisitions 

      Skaar, Jostein; Sørgard, Lars (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      The purpose of this article is to study the effects of an acquisition in a hydro power system with temporary bottlenecks. We apply a model with four markets: two regions and two time periods. It is shown that an acquisition ...
    • Testing the role of comparative advantage and learning in wage and promotion dynamics 

      Hunnes, Arngrim (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-09)
      Can job assignment based on comparative advantage and learning about workers’ ability explain wage and promotion dynamics within firms? In order to answer this question the Gibbons and Waldman (1999b) model is estimated in ...