Browsing Discussion papers (SAM) by Title
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Tacit collusion and international commodity taxation
(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
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Taking the competitor’s pill: when combination therapies enter pharmaceutical markets
(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
(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
(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
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Tax responses in platform industries
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Text and voice : complements, substitutes or both?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005)Text messaging has become an important revenue component for European and Asian mobile operators. We develop a simple model of demand for mobile services incorporating the existence of call externalities and network ... -
The (un)compromise effect
(DP SAM;10/2018, Working paper, 2018-05)The compromise effect—i.e., the preference for the middle option—is an established bias in behavioral economics, but has not been experimentally validated in the field. In the current study I test the compromise effect ... -
The Blue Maritime Cluster Crisis: Financial Instability and Supply Chain Management Effects
(DP SAM;15/2019, Working paper, 2019-08)The present paper investigates the offshore crisis 2015-2017 and its impact on one of the most complete maritime clusters, more precise the Blue Maritime Cluster, located at Møre og Romsdal at the North Western Coast of ... -
The Boy Crisis: Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind
(DP SAM;06/2019, Working paper, 2019-03-01)The ‘boy crisis’ prompts the question of whether people interpret inequalities differently depending on whether males or females are lagging behind. We study this question in a novel large-scale distributive experiment ...