Browsing Discussion papers (SAM) by Subject "VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210"
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Determinants of long-term economic growth redux: A Measurement Error Model Averaging (MEMA) approach.
(DP SAM: 19, Working paper, 2016-12)This paper estimates determinants of long-run growth rates of GDP per capita in a cross section of countries. We propose a novel Measurement Error Model Averaging (MEMA) approach that accounts for measurement error in ... -
Households’ responses to price changes of formal childcare.
(DP SAM; 20, Working paper, 2016-12)The current understanding about how households respond to price changes in formal childcare is not extensive. This study examines this response through a 1998 reform in Norway that introduced a money transfer to families ... -
Margins and market shares : pharmacy incentives for generic substitution
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-07)We study the impact of product margins on pharmacies incentive to promote generics instead of brand-names. First, we construct a theoretical model where pharmacies can persuade patients with a brand-name prescription to ... -
Organizational Design with Portable Skills
(DP SAM;02, Working paper, 2017-02)Workers can move across firms and take with them portable skills. This has an impact on how firms are organized and allocate tasks across workers. To reduce mobility, a profit maximizing firm may inefficiently allocate ...