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The importance of moral reflection and self-reported data in a dictator game with production
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-12)This paper studies how individual behavior is affected by moral reflection in a dictator game with production, and the informational value of self-reported data on fairness. We find that making individuals reflect on ... -
Income risk aversion with quantity constraints
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-02)In this paper, I consider a consumer with a concave utility function over n commodities and trace out the consequences of quantity constraints on product markets for the consumer's aversion towards income risk. I show ... -
Individual vessel quotas and unregulated species : the Norwegian blue whiting fishery
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)This survey of the Norwegian purse seine fleet licensed to fish blue whiting focuses on the relationship between restricted fisheries, such as spring-spawning herring, North Sea herring, mackerel, and capelin, and ... -
Inter-firm price coordination in a two-sided market
(Discussion paper;16/2014, Working paper, 2014-05)In many two-sided markets we observe that there is a common distributor on one side of the market. One example is the TV industry, where TV channels choose advertising prices to maximize own profit and typically ... -
International income inequality : measuring PPP bias by estimating Engel curves for food
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-07)Price-adjusted data on national incomes applied in cross-country compar- isons are measured with bias. By studying micro data, this paper ¯nds that the bias is systematic: the poorer a country is, the more its income ... -
Interrelated factor demand with nonconvex adjustment costs
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)In this paper we develop a model to describe a firm’s demand for two production factors which is subject to the presence of nonconvex adjustment costs. In our model simultaneous adjustment of these two production factors ... -
Is there a development gap in rationality?
(Discussion paper;8/2014, Working paper, 2014-03)We report an experimental test of the four touchstones of rationality in choice under risk – utility maximization, stochastic dominance, expected-utility maximization and small-stakes risk neutrality – with students from ... -
Job losses and child outcomes
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-06)Based on matched employer-employee data from Norway, we analyze the effects of worker displacement in 1986-1987 on their children’s earnings in 1999-2001. Using displacement of fathers to indicate an exogenous earnings ... -
A journey for your beautiful mind : economics graduate study and research
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-09)A lecture to graduate students of the joint Economics Ph.D. program of the Department of Economics, University of Bergen, and the Norwegian School of Economics. -
Licensing technology and foreclosure
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-10)We consider an industry where one firm with a superior technology competes for market shares with several rivals. The owner of the superior technology (the dominant firm) can license or transfer the source of its ... -
Life cycle earnings, education premiums and internal rates of return
(Discussion paper;24/2014, Working paper, 2014-06)What do the education premiums look like over the life cycle? What is the impact of schooling on lifetime earnings? How does the internal rate of return compare with opportunity cost of funds? To what extent do progressive ... -
Life-cycle bias and the returns to schooling in current and lifetime earnings
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Life-cycle patterns in male/female differences in job search
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-01)We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached displaced workers. We apply ... -
Like father, like son? : a note on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-09)More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. Using a larger and more ... -
Losers, winners and prisoner's dilemma in international subsidy wars
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-10)Two central results in the strategic trade literature are that governments shall support winners and that there is a policy prisoner dilemma in international subsidy wars (i.e.: countries have incentives to support local ... -
Luck, choice and responsibility
(Discussion paper;6/2014, Working paper, 2014-03)We conduct a laboratory experiment where third-party spectators can redistribute resources between two agents, thereby offsetting the consequences of controllable and uncontrollable luck. Some spectators go to the limits ... -
Made in China, sold in Norway : local labor market effects of an import shock
(Discussion paper;25/2014, Working paper, 2014-06)We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by exposure to import competition from China. We find negative employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled workers tend to be pushed ... -
Making sense of market delineation with the aggregate diversion ratio
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-08)The US Merger Guidelines leave it an open question if the SSNIP test requires an increase in one, some or all prices in the candidate market. We argue that the characteristics of the candidate market in question should be ... -
Mapping risk aversion in Norway using hypothetical income gambles
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-08)This is the first study that explores the heterogeneity of risk preferences among the Norwegian population. We measure risk aversion as the complement of the maximal relative downside income risk a person is willing to ... -
Market definition with shock analysis
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-11)The SSNIP test for market definition requires information about demand substitution and profitability. If detailed information about demand is not available, observed effects of a shock in the industry may be an alternative ...