Discussion papers (SAM): Recent submissions
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Some reflections on the role of moral reasoning in economics
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-11)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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
When anti-dumping measures lead to increased market power : a case study of the European salmon market
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-12)In this paper we apply the Bresnahan-Lau (1982) model to test for market power in the European distribution of salmon. Utilising data at the import level, derived demand equations are specified rather then consumer demand. ... -
Samaritan agents? : on the delegation of aid policy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-12)Should an aid donor delegate the responsibility for allocating its budget to an agent less averse to inequality than itself in order to alleviate the Samaritan’s Dilemma it is facing? Despite the intuitive appeal of ... -
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 ... -
Two part tariffs with partial product bundling
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001)When a firm operates in an industry with very large differences in consumers' willingness to pay for the service it offers, it faces a challenge in the pricing decision. It wants to engage in price discrimination, but ... -
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 ... -
Wage dips and drops around first birth
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-01)We use a rich longitudinal data set for West Germany to disentangle the wage effects for female workers around first birth. Data on daily real wages reveal a dip in women’s real wages shortly before giving birth and a ... -
Public versus private health care in a national health service
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-08)This paper studies the interplay between public and private health care in a National Health Service. We consider a two-stage game, where at stage one a Health Authority sets the public sector wage and a subsidy to (or ... -
Media competition on the Internet
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-08)This paper presents a model of competition between two advertisingfinanced media firms, and we apply the model to analyze competition between portals on the Internet. First, we show that equilibrium prices of advertising ... -
Environmental taxation and revenue for development
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-10)This paper considers the role of global environmental taxes both as instruments for improving the global environment and as a source of revenue for funding economic development. It reviews the general case for environmental ... -
Corporate tax systems, multinational enterprises, and economic integration
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-07)Multinational firms are known to shift profits and countries are known to compete over shifty profits. Two major principles for corporate taxation are Separate Accounting (SA) and Formula Apportionment (FA). These two ... -
Do Koopmans’ postulates lead to discounted utilitarianism?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-12)In this paper we consider variations of Koopmans’ (1960) postulates and demonstrate that these lead to a class of social preferences that is wider than discounted utilitarianism. We formulate a utilitiarian condition ... -
Corporate tax systems and cross country profit shifting : formula apportionment vs. separate accounting
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-09)This paper shows in a symmetric tax competition model that a formula apportionment system can attain the first best welfare optimum without any political pre-agreed harmonization or coordination of tax bases and tax ... -
National versus international mergers in unionised oligopoly
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-06)We analyse how the presence of trade unions affects the pattern of mergers in an international oligopoly and the welfare implications thereof. We find that wages for the merger participants are always lower when they ... -
Who are the least advantaged?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-01)The difference principle, introduced by Rawls (1971, 1993), is generally interpreted as leximin, but this is not how he intended it. Rawls explicitly states that the difference principle requires that aggregate benefits ... -
How middle-men can undermine anti-corruption reforms
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-12)The anti-corruption reform in the Tanzanian tax bureaucracy in the mid-1990s was apparently a short-lived success. In the wake of the reform, a number of “tax experts” established themselves in the market, many of them ... -
Striking the balance : economics and the environment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-10)The environment has many of the properties that economists associate with the concept of a public good. It has long been realized that, if left to itself, the market economy is likely to lead to an undersupply of public ... -
The demand for high-skilled workers and immigration policy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-11)This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are ...