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    • The impact of international tax information exchange agreements on the use of tax amnesty: evidence from Norway 

      Andersson, Jonas; Schroyen, Fred; Torsvik, Gaute (DP SAM;16/2019, Working paper, 2019-09)
      In this paper we develop a model for tax amnesty applications in a multi-period setting. One key insight from the model is that applying for amnesty becomes more attractive at the moment when stricter enforcement is ...

    • The Impact of Paid Maternity Leave on Maternal Health 

      Bütikofer, Äline; Riise, Julie; Skira, Meghan (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 Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment 

      May, Nils G.; Nilsen, Øivind Anti (Discussion paper;09/15, Working paper, 2015-04)
      Globally installed wind power capacity has grown tremendously since 2000. This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment. A theoretical model shows that wind power deployment is not necessarily ...

    • The market in economics : behavioural assumptions and value judgments 

      Sandmo, Agnar (Discussion paper;12/2014, Working paper, 2014-04)
      This paper tries to convey the essence of the economic theory of behaviour of individuals and firms to an audience of non-economists. The hypotheses of utility and profit maximization and their use as building blocks in ...

    • The merit primacy effect 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Skjelbred, Siv-Elisabeth; Tungodden, Bertil (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 Poking Effect: Price Changes, Information, and Inertia in the Market for Mobile Subscriptions 

      Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Røhr, Helene Lie; Sæthre, Morten (DP SAM;23/2018, Working paper, 2018-11)
      We study consumer inertia in the mobile subscription market, focusing on the decision of whether to switch to a competing provider. To identify the extent of inertia, we exploit price changes faced by 270,000 consumers of ...

    • The power of money : wealth effects in contests 

      Schroyen, Fred; Treich, Nicolas (Discussion Papers;13/2013, Working paper, 2013-06)
      Two wealth effects typically arise in any contest: i) wealth decreases the marginal cost of effort, but also ii) decreases the marginal benefit of winning the contest. In this paper, we introduce three types of strategic ...

    • The principal problem in political economy : income distribution in the history of economic thought 

      Sandmo, Agnar (Discussion Papers;15/2013, Working paper, 2013-09)
      The paper considers the history of theories of income distribution, from the time of Adam Smith until the 1970s. It is divided into two main parts. Part I considers the positive theory of income distribution, beginning ...

    • The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism the Haugian way 

      Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Discussion paper;1/2012, Working paper, 2012-02)
      On the basis of availabale sources the present paper seeks to map entrepreneural industrial activities the Norwegian puritan revivalist Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771- 1824) was involved in and quantify his financial activities. ...

    • The Public Economics of Climate Change 

      Sandmo, Agnar (SAM;27/2015, Working paper, 2015-11-19)
      This paper considers the challenges to the field of public economics that arise from the issue of global warming. It outlines the argument for viewing the global climate as a public good and describes the problems that ...

    • The Role of Parenthood on the Gender Gap among Top Earners 

      Bütikofer, Aline; Jensen, Sissel; Salvanes, Kjell G. (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 

      Carneiro, Pedro; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. (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 ...

    • The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth : the English Corn Returns as a data source in economic history, 1770-1914. 

      Brunt, Liam; Cannon, Edmund (Discussion paper;9/2013, Working paper, 2013-04)
      From 1770 to 1914, the British Government collected weekly price and quantity data for all types of grain traded in many market towns; these ‘Corn Returns’ were published in the London Gazette. We computerised the data ...

    • The theory of tax evasion : a retrospective view 

      Sandmo, Agnar (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-12)
      The paper gives an overview of some main themes in the theory of tax evasion, starting from Allingham and Sandmo (1972). It reviews the comparative statics of the original model of individual behaviour where the tax ...

    • Time-Dependency in Producers’ Price Adjustments: Evidence from Micro Panel Data. 

      Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Pettersen, Per Marius; Bratlie, Joakim (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 ...

    • The Timing of Parental Job Displacement, Child Development and Family Adjustment 

      Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander (SAM DP;12/2022, Working paper, 2022-09)
      This paper examines if the effect of parental labor market shocks on child development depends on the age of the child at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register ...

    • To invest or not to invest : a real options approach to FDIs and tax competition 

      Panteghini, Paolo M.; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-01)

    • To peg or not to peg? : a simple model of exchange rate regime choice in small economies 

      Berger, Helge; Jensen, Henrik; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-10)
      The choice of an exchange rate peg often points to a trade-off between gaining credibility and losing flexibility. We show that the flexibility loss may be reduced if domestic and foreign shocks are correlated and more ...

    • Too young to leave the nest ? : the effects of school starting age 

      Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-06)
      Does it matter when a child starts school? While the popular press seems to suggest it does, there is limited evidence of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses data on the population ...

    • Towards a competitive society? : the promotion of competition as a goal of economic policy 

      Sandmo, Agnar (Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-04)
      This paper discusses the problems involved in considering competition policy as a separate area of economic policy. Two problems are given special attention. The first is the doubtful efficiency gain from enforcing ...