Discussion papers (SAM): Recent submissions
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An overview of empirical analysis of behavior of fishermen facing new regulation
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Agglomeration, tax competition and local public goods supply
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-07)In this paper we develop a framework for studying tax competition and local public goods supply in a setting where real and fiscal externalities interact with local democracy. We use the framework (a) to analyse if there ... -
Public goods production and private sector productivity
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-07)In this paper we study how the use of resources in the public sector affects industrial structure, the size and the productivity in knowledge-intensive clusters in local communities. We also discuss how these considerations ... -
The price of decentralisation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-07)This paper develops a model for analysing problems related to centralisation and decentralisation. The model is of the new economic geography type, in which there are agglomeration gains in cities but not in rural areas. ... -
Computing the Jacobian in spatial models : an applied survey
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-08)Despite attempts to get around the Jacobian in fitting spatial econometric models by using GMM and other approximations, it remains a central problem for maximum likelihood estimation. In principle, and for smaller data ... -
Education and family background : mechanisms and policies
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-05)In every society for which we have data, people’s educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in ... -
Under pressure? : the effect of peers on outcomes of young adults
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-05)A variety of public campaigns, including the “Just Say No” campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to “Just Say No to Drugs”, are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. ... -
Demand patterns for treatment insurance in Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-04)In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private ... -
A chronology of financial crises for Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-05)The paper offers a chronology of financial crises in Norway from her independence in 1814 till present times. Firstly, business cycles, covering almost two hundred years of economic history are mapped. These reveal years ... -
Single-product versus uniform SSNIPs
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-01)It is common to apply a SSNIP test with a uniform price increase on all products in the candidate market. We show that in situations with asymmetries – for example one product having a limited sale – a uniform SSNIP test ... -
Just luck: an experimental study of risk taking and fairness
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-01)Choices involving risk significantly affect the distribution of income and wealth in society, but there is probably no more contentious question of justice than how to allocate the gains and losses that inevitably result ... -
Optimal labor income taxation under maximin: an upper bound
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-02)This paper assumes the standard optimal income tax model of Mirrlees (Review of Economic Studies, 1971). It gives fairly mild conditions under which the optimal nonlinear labor income tax profile derived under maximin ... -
Baby booming inequality?: demographic change and inequality in Norway, 1967-2004
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-02)We demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are because of changes in the age structure. In particular, we explore the hypothesis that the substantial ... -
Income risk aversion with quantity constraints
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-02)In this paper, I consider a consumer with a concave utility function over n commodities and trace out the consequences of quantity constraints on product markets for the consumer's aversion towards income risk. I show ... -
Older or wealthier?: the impact of age adjustment on cross-sectional inequality measures
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-03)Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, a concern is that one confuses older with wealthier. We propose ... -
Optimal redistributive taxation with both extensive and intensive responses
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-02)This paper characterizes the optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive margins. Individuals are heterogeneous in two dimensions: their skills and their disutility of ... -
Mergers and partial ownership
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-01)In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find that partial ownership arrangements can be more profitable for the acquiring and acquired firm because ... -
Life-cycle patterns in male/female differences in job search
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-01)We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached displaced workers. We apply ... -
The scale and scope of environmental taxation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-10)This paper provides a discussion of the principles of environmental taxation. It considers the empirical identification of environmental taxes and the problems associated with the choice of the right tax base from the ... -
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 ...