Discussion papers (SAM): Recent submissions
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R&D and strategic industrial location in international oligopolies
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Two-part tariffs with quality degradation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-03)There is a gap between the recommendations of the theory of second degree price discrimination and the practices of firms that target consumer segments with varying willingness to pay with two or more distinct tar- iffs. ... -
International trade with competitiveness : effects in R&D
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Economic integration and redistributive taxation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-04)We set up a simple political economy model where economic integration raises the profitability of multinational firms. In this setting redistributive taxation may rise following economic integration, if the effects of ... -
Internal wage dispersion and firm performance : white-collar evidence
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-05)Is internal wage dispersion good for firm productivity, or do internal wage differences break the conception of fairness and cause counterproductive behavior among workers? Contrary to previous empirical work that has ... -
Tax effects on education
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-01)Taxes affect the individual’s educational choice through many channels, and they have both direct and indirect effects on human capital accumulation. The structure of the tax system creates different incentive effects ... -
Asset bubbles in shipping? : an analysis of recent history in the drybulk market
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-03)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the hypothesis that the supercycle in the drybulk freight market between 2003 and 2005 caused asset values in the second -hand market to deviate from underlying fundamentals. ... -
Operational expressions for the marginal cost of indirect taxation when merit arguments matter
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-02)Marginal indirect tax reform analysis evaluates for each commodity (group) the marginal welfare cost (MC) of increasing government revenue with 1 Euro by raising the indirect tax rate on that commodity. In this paper, ... -
Intergenerational risk sharing by means of pay-as-you-go programs : an investigation of alternative mechanisms
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-06)A pay-as-you-go (paygo) pension program may provide intergenerational pooling of risks to individuals’ labor and capital income over the life cycle. By means of illuminating closed form solutions we demonstrate that the ... -
Inequality and redistribution : the need for new perspectives
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-02)Recent years have seen a marked increase in inequality in the OECD area, and since the early 1990s the trend has been unmistakable in Norway also. This paper offers a brief review of the main causes behind this development, ... -
Management of knowledge workers
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-05)We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results relay when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects ... -
Financing of media firms : does competition matter?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-01)This paper analyses how competition between media firms influences the way they are financed. In a setting where monopoly media firms choose to be completely financed by consumer payments, competition may lead the ... -
How destructive is creative destruction? : the costs of worker displacement
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-03)We analyze the long-term effects of worker displacement using a large administrative matched employer–employee database spanning throughout the entire Norwegian economy. Our focus is on prime-age male manufacturing sector ... -
Company tax reform in Europe and its effect on collusive behavior
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-05)We study how harmonization of corporate tax systems affects the stability of international cartels. We show that tax base harmonization reinforces collusive agreements, while harmonization of corporate tax rates may ... -
Globalisation and the mix of wage and profit taxes
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-02)This paper analyses the development of the ratio of corporate taxes to wage taxes using a simple political economy model with internationally mobile and immobile firms. Among other results, our model predicts that countries ... -
Marginal indirect tax reform analysis with merit good arguments and environmental concerns : Norway, 1999
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-04)We present a framework to identify and evaluate marginal tax reforms when merit good arguments and environmental concerns are given explicit consideration. It is applied to the Norwegian indirect tax system for 1999. ... -
Taxation of uncertain business profits, private risk markets and optimal allocation of risk
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-02)In this paper we explore what happens if the government bears some of the risk through a profit tax when the risk sharing in the venture capital market is incomplete due to non-observability of effort and moral hazard. ... -
Person-affecting paretian egalitarianism with variable population size
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-08)Where there is a fixed population (i.e., who exists does not depend on what choice an agent makes), the deontic version of anonymous Paretian egalitarianism holds that an option is just if and only if (1) it is anonymously ... -
Destructive competition : oil and rent seeking in Iran
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-04)In countries with poorly developed institutions, rent seeking may impose serious costs for the economy. Our analysis demonstrates how rent seeking distorts the economy through two channels. First, there is the direct ... -
Vocational training and gender : wages and occupational mobility among young workers
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-08)This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. ...