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The neighbourhood is not what it used to be : has there been equalisation of opportunity across families and communities in Norway?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)Parents influence their children's adult outcomes through economic and genetic endowments, transmission of cultural values and social skills, and through choice of residential location. Using a variance decomposition ... -
An alternative way to model merit good arguments
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002)Besley (1988) uses a scaling approach to model merit good arguments in commodity tax policy. In this paper, I question this approach on the grounds that it produces ’wrong’ recommendations—taxation (subsidisation) of ... -
Redistributive taxation and the household : the case of individual filings
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-01)In this paper I look at the tax treatment of households under individual filings and characterise the efficiency properties of an income tax schedule that redistributes from rich to poor households. Because tax liabilities ... -
Regional growth in Western Europe : an empirical exploration of interactions with agriculture and agricultural policy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-01)Studies of convergence of regional growth in Western Europe have given varying results, depending on the addition of conditioning variables and estimation methods, as well as underlying models. This exploration adds ... -
Globalisation and the welfare state : more inequality – less redistribution?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-02)This paper considers the possible connection between globalisation and inequality in Western welfare states. There are a number of theoretical reasons why increased trade and factor mobility should lead to more inequality ... -
International aspects of public goods provision
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-02)This paper considers the extension of the theory of public consumption goods to an international context with public goods whose benefits are global. In one version of the model there are no restrictions on lump sum ... -
What constitutes a convention? : implications for the coexistence of conventions
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-03)A model of repeated play of a coordination game, where stage games have a location in social space, and players receive noisy signals of the true location of their games, is reviewed. Sugden (1995) suggests that in such ... -
Viscosity and dispersion in an evolutionary model of learning
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-03)A two-population evolutionary model of learning is proposed where there is a conflict of interests between populations, and where interaction ranges from complete viscosity to complete dispersion. The long run stochastically ... -
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 ... -
International complementarities in the Internet : should local access prices be regulated?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-05)The Internet can be seen as the convergence of different industries, such as telecommunication, software and media, into an international oligopoly offering complementary products. In most of these industries we have ... -
Resolving distributional conflicts between generations
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-05)We describe a new approach to the problem of resolving distributional conflicts between an infinite and countable number of generations. We impose conditions on the social preferences that capture the following idea: ... -
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 ... -
Strategic investments with spillovers, vertical integration and foreclosure in the broadband access market
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-06)We analyse competition between two firms (ISPs) in the retail market for broadband access. One of the firms is vertically integrated and controls the input market for local access. The vertically integrated firm undertakes ... -
International capital mobility and the taxation of portfolio investments
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-06)This paper provides an overview of problems related to the taxation of portfolio investments in an open economy. It starts by outlining empirical results on how taxation affects household portfolio structure and proceeds ... -
Fiscal corruption : a vice or a virtue?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-07)Recent literature on tax administration in poor countries suggests there are virtues of allowing fiscal corruption. By strengthening the bargaining power of corrupt tax officers, it is argued that tax evasion may be ... -
Unionized oligopoly, trade liberalization and location choice
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-07)In a two-country reciprocal dumping model, with one country unionized, we analyze how wage setting and firm location are influenced by trade liberalization. We show that trade liberalization can induce FDI, which is at ... -
Entry in telecommunication : customer loyalty, price sensitivity and access prices
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-07)The purpose of this article is to investigate the prospects for entry into an existing network in the telecommunication industry, and how public policy may promote a more competitive outcome. We apply a model that captures ... -
Foreign aid and international public goods : incentives and strategic behavior
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-08)This paper considers a stylized model where a donor and a recipient government derive utility from a public good (for example consumption among the poor or defense capacity in the recipient country), in addition to a ... -
Patenting and early industrialization in Norway, 1860-1914 : was there a linkage?
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Public provision and private incentives
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-09)This paper surveys classical and modern arguments for public production and provision of goods. It reviews the conventional case for public production under conditions of increasing returns and discusses the modifications ...