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Climate policy and the steel industry : achieving global emission reductions by an incomplete climate agreement
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-10)The steel industry is one of the largest sources of global CO2 emissions and hence a candidate for climate policies. A carbon tax on emissions in industrialized countries, however, will cause relocation of steel production ... -
Decentralization and the fate of minorities
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-12)This paper analyses the welfare effects of a change from centralized to decentralized political authority. The potential disadvantage with decentralization in our model is that local dominant groups with rather “extreme” ... -
Norwegian policy response to the international economic disintegration during the inter-war years
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Industrial clusters, asymmetric information and policy design
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-12)Recently there has been some attention on the issue of industrial clusters and industrial policy claiming that there are arguments in favour of subsidising special industries in order to stimulate industrial agglomeration. ... -
On the workings of a cartel : evidence from the Norwegian cement industry
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003)Using the institutional set-up of the Norwegian cement industry, in particular its sharing rule, we are able to identify the workings of a cartel in some detail. Given data on prices, production, and exports, we are able ... -
Samaritan agents? : on the delegation of aid policy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003)Should a donor delegate the responsibility for allocating its aid budget to a less inequality-averse agent to alleviate the consequences of the Samaritan’s Dilemma it is facing? I show that when aid impact differs across ... -
Some reflections on the role of moral reasoning in economics
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003)People seem to be motivated by moral ideas and in this paper I discuss how we should take this into account in positive and normative economics. I review alternative ways of modelling moral motivation and reasoning in ... -
The evolution of the gender wage gap
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-01)In this paper we investigate when the male-female wage differential arises: Does it evolve over the early career or does it exist right from entry into first employment? For the analysis we use new administrative ... -
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 ... -
Symmetric tax competition under formula apportionment
(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 ... -
Can a mixed health care system be desirable on equity grounds ?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-02)Should health care provision be public, private, or both? We look at this question in a setting where people differ in their earnings capacity and face some illness risk. We assume that illness reduces a person's time ... -
Why corporate taxes may rise : the case of economic integration
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-05)Almost all the literature on tax competition in the presence of multinationals (MNCs) ignores the combined effect of profit shifting and economic integration (i.e., a reduction in trade costs) on equilibrium capital ... -
Corruption and market reform
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-05)Market reforms in developing and transition economies have sometimes failed to deliver the desired welfare effects. Corruption may be an important reason for the inefficiency of market reforms, such as privatization ... -
Gender differences in entry wages and early career wages
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-05)This paper investigates the gender wage gap in entry wages and in the early career for German skilled workers in the period 1975-1990. We use a new administrative longitudinal data source that allows to observe complete work ... -
The risk sharing effects of social security and the stochastic properties of income growth
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-05)Time-series analyses suggest that income shocks are fairly persistent. This has implications for the intergenerational risk-sharing effects of pay-as-you- go (paygo) social security programs. By means of a simple stochastic ... -
On the workings of a cartel : evidence from the Norwegian cement industry
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-06)Using the institutional set-up of the Norwegian cement industry, in particular its sharing rule, we are able to identify the workings of a cartel in some detail. We focus on the two problems that any cartel faces: deciding ... -
Domestic labour markets and foreign direct investment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-06)We study how the labour market and industry uncertainty affect the investment decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs). In an uncertain business climate, MNEs must take account of the future in deciding where to ... -
Income tax, consumption value of education, and the choice of educational type
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-06)How the tax system might affect the individual’s educational level is well studied. But the question of how the tax system affects the individual’s choice of educational type is mostly ignored. This is an important issue, ... -
The dual income tax and firms’ income shifting through the choice of organizational form and real capital investments
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-07)The dual income tax provides the self-employed entrepreneur with huge incentives to participate in tax minimizing income shifting to have more of his income taxed as capital income. The Norwegian split model is designed ... -
Measuring heterogeneity in the returns to education in Norway using educational reforms
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-07)The decision to take more education is complex, and is influenced by individual ability, financial constraints, family background, preferences, etc. Such factors, normally unobserved by the researcher, introduce endogeneity ...