Browsing Discussion papers (SAM) by Author "Nilsen, Øivind Anti"
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A note on upward pricing pressure : the possibility of false positives
Mathiesen, Lars; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Sørgard, Lars (Discussion paper;11/2012, Working paper, 2012-05)Farrell and Shapiro proposed a simple test of the possible upward pricing pressure (UPP) following a merger. They showed that the test may give false negatives, that is, indicate that a merger may not give an UPP, while ... -
Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity
McDermott, Grant; Nilsen, Øivind Anti (Discussion Papers;18/2011, Working paper, 2011-09)Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of ... -
Employment changes, the structure of adjustment costs, and plant size
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Schiantarelli, Fabio (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-11)In this paper we analyze the pattern of employment adjustment using a rich panel of Norwegian plants. The data suggest that the frequency of episodes of zero net employment changes is inversely related to plant size. We ... -
Identifying adjustment costs of net and gross employment changes
Ejarque, João Miguel; Nilsen, Øivind Anti (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-09)A relatively unexplored question in dynamic labour demand regards the source of adjustment costs, whether they depend on net or gross changes in employment. We estimate a structural model of dynamic labour demand where ... -
Intergenerational mobility : trends across the earnings distribution
Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-02)The analysis, based on register data for Norwegian cohorts born 1950, 1955, and 1960, shows that the intergenerational earnings mobility is high. Using quantile regression, mobility is found to be lower at the lower end ... -
Interrelated factor demand with nonconvex adjustment costs
Letterie, Wilko; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Pfann, Gerard A. (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 recipiency of disability pension hereditary?
Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell (Discussion paper;10/2012, Working paper, 2012-04)This paper addresses whether children’s exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability of receiving such benefits themselves. Most OECD countries experience an increasing proportion of the ... -
Job losses and child outcomes
Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell (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 ... -
Lumpy investments, factor adjustments and productivity
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina; Skjerpen, Terje (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-02)This paper describes firms’ output and factor demands before, during and after episodes of lumpy investment. By using a rich employer–employee panel data set for two manufacturing industries and one service industry, we ... -
Markup cyclicality and input factor adjustments
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Nilsen, Øivind Anti (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)This paper investigates the existence of markups and their cyclical behaviour at industry sector level. Markups are given as a price-cost relation that is estimated from a dynamic, structural model of the firm. The firms ... -
Merger simulations with observed diversion ratios
Mathiesen, Lars; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Sørgard, Lars (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-10)A common approach to merger simulations used in antitrust cases is to calibrate demand from market shares and a few additional parameters. When the products involved in the merger case are differentiated along several ... -
Public R&D Support and Firms’ Performance A Panel Data Study.
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Iancu, Diana-Cristina (DP SAM;13/2018, Working paper, 2018-06)We analyse all the major sources of direct and indirect R&D subsidies in Norway in the period 2002-2013 and compare their effects on individual firms’ performance. Firms that received support are matched with a control ... -
Scarring effects of unemployment
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Reiso, Katrine Holm (Discussion Papers;26/2011, Working paper, 2011-12)Using Norwegian individual register data of young workers, from the period 1986-2008, we analyse whether there are large and persistent negative relationships between unemployment and the risk of repeated unemployment ... -
Sequentiality versus simultaneity : interrelated factor demand
Asphjell, Magne Krogstad; Letterie, Wilko; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Pfann, Gerard A. (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-12)A structural model is developed and estimated by a maximum likelihood routine to investigate interrelated factor demand subject to nonconvex adjustment costs. The dataset concerns Norwegian plants operating in manufacturing ... -
Skill composition : exploring a wage-based skill measure
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina; Skjerpen, Terje (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)This study explores a wage-based skill measure using information from a wage equation. Evidence from matched employer-employee data show that skill is attributable to variables other than educational length, for instance ... -
Sources of measurement errors in earnings data : new estimates of intergenerational elasticities
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell; Aakvik, Arild; Jacobsen, Karl Åge (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)Using Norwegian intergenerational data with a substantial part of the life-cycle earnings of children and almost the entire life-cycle earnings for their fathers, we present new estimates of intergenerational mobility. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Upstream merger in a successive oligopoly : who pays the price?
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Sørgard, Lars; Ulsaker, Simen A. (Discussion Papers;17/2013, Working paper, 2013-12)This study develops and uses a successive oligopoly model, with an unobservable non-linear tariff between upstream and downstream firms, to analyze the possible anti-competitive effects of an upstream merger. We find ... -
Using the Helmert-transformation to reduce dimensionality in a mixed model: Application to a wage equation with worker and firm heterogeneity
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Skjerpen, Terje (Discussion Papers;11/2011, Working paper, 2011-07)