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Patenting and early industrialization in Norway, 1860-1914 : was there a linkage?
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Two-part tariffs, consumer heterogeneity and Cournot competition
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)We analyze two-part tariffs in oligopoly, where each firm commits to a certain quantity. The model is an extension of the one introduced in Har (2001). We show that their main results are reversed when the model is extended ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
An alternative way to model merit good arguments
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-10)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 ... -
Income distribution and tax competition
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)The literature on international tax competition has shown how increased international mobility of the tax base may create a downward pressure on tax rates and give rise to increased inequality in disposable income. This ... -
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 ... -
Designing social security : a portfolio choice approach
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)Public social security systems may provide diversification of risks to individuals’ life-time income. Capturing that a pay-as-you-go program (paygo) may be considered as a “quasiasset”, we study the optimal size of the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Two-part tariffs with partial unbundling
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)The paper explores second degree price discrimination in a multidimensional good context. There are two types of consumers with demand described by a two-dimensional vector, a quantity dimension and a service attribute ... -
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: ... -
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 ... -
The role of FDI in economic development
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)This paper deals with two questions: First, what are the determinants of FDI? Second, what is the role of FDI in economic development? In order to provide some answers to these questions, we draw upon the existing ... -
The value of equality
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-09)Over the years, egalitarian philosophers have made some challenging claims about the nature of egalitarianism. They have argued that the Rawlsian leximin principle is not an egalitarian idea; that egalitarian reasoning ... -
Technology sourcing and strategic foreign direct investment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-11)Empirical evidence suggests that there are important spillovers associated with the operations of multinational enterprises. Spillovers may occur when less advanced, local firms learn from their more advanced, foreign ... -
Globalization, industrial policy and clusters
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)This paper analyses industrial policy in a high wage open economy hosting an agglomeration consisting of vertically linked upstream and downstream firms. We show that optimal policy towards upstream industries typically ...