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Health insurance coverage for low-income households : consumption smoothing and investment
(Discussion Papers;16/2013, Working paper, 2013-10)I estimate the e ects of public health insurance on consumption smoothing and investigate the extent to which the public insurance interacts with private arrangements of self-insurance. Exploiting a dramatic expansion ... -
A crisis not wasted : institutional and structural reforms behind Norway’s strong macroeconomic performance
(Discussion Papers;18/2013, Working paper, 2013-12)This paper draws the line between the Norwegian boom-bust cycle and crises in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the succeeding institutional and structural reforms and the strong macroeconomic performance and stability of ... -
Evaluating carbon capture and storage in a climate model with directed technical change
(Discussion Papers;14/2013, Working paper, 2013-08)Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is considered a critical technology needed to curb CO2 emissions and is envisioned by the International Energy Agency (IEA) as an integral part of least-cost greenhouse gas mitigation ... -
Leadership and incentives
(Discussion Papers;2/2014, Working paper, 2014-01)We study how leader compensation affects public goods provision. We report from a lab experiment with four treatments, where the base treatment was a standard public goods game with simultaneous contribution decisions, ... -
The power of money : wealth effects in contests
(Discussion Papers;13/2013, Working paper, 2013-06)Two wealth effects typically arise in any contest: i) wealth decreases the marginal cost of effort, but also ii) decreases the marginal benefit of winning the contest. In this paper, we introduce three types of strategic ... -
Willingness to compete : family matters
(Discussion Papers;03/2014, Working paper, 2014-01)This paper studies the role of family background in explaining differences in the willingness to compete. By combining data from a lab experiment conducted with a representative sample of adolescents in Norway and high ... -
Hospital mergers : a spatial competition approach
(Discussion paper;8/2013, Working paper, 2013-04)Using a spatial competition framework with three ex ante identical hospitals, we study the effects of a hospital merger on quality, price and welfare. The merging hospitals always reduce quality, but the non-merging hospital ... -
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth : the English Corn Returns as a data source in economic history, 1770-1914.
(Discussion paper;9/2013, Working paper, 2013-04)From 1770 to 1914, the British Government collected weekly price and quantity data for all types of grain traded in many market towns; these ‘Corn Returns’ were published in the London Gazette. We computerised the data ... -
Integration in the English wheat market 1770-1820
(Discussion paper;12/2013, Working paper, 2013-06)Cointegration analysis has been used widely to quantify market integration through price arbitrage. We show that total price variability can be decomposed into: (i) magnitude of price shocks; (ii) correlation of price ... -
Diffusion of pharmaceuticals : cross-country evidence of anti-TNF drugs
(Discussion paper;7/2013, Working paper, 2013-03)This paper studies the diffusion of biopharmaceuticals across European countries, focusing on anti-TNF drugs, which are used to treat autoimmune diseases (e.g., rheumatism, psoriasis). We use detailed sales information on ... -
Fair tax evasion
(Discussion paper;11/2013, Working paper, 2013-04)In this paper we analyse how fairness considerations, in particular considerations of just income distribution, affect whether or not people find tax evasion justifiable and their willingness to evade taxes. Using data ... -
Leadership and incentives
(Discussion paper;10/2013, Working paper, 2013-04)We study whether compensating people who volunteer to be leaders in a public goods game creates a social crowding-out effect of moral motivation among the others in the group. We report from an experiment with four ... -
The decentralised central bank : regional bank rate autonomy in Norway, 1850-1892
(Discussion paper;6/2013, Working paper, 2013-03)Before 1893 the regional branches of Norges Bank set their own bank rates. We discuss how bank rate autonomy could be reconciled with the fixed exchange rate commitments of the silver and gold standard. Although the ... -
Paying for staying : managerial contracts and the retention motive
(Discussion paper;8/2012, Working paper, 2012-03)Talented managers may leave the firm in order to work elsewhere. Focusing on the portability of managers' resources, we develop a model in which managerial compensation is designed to prevent inefficient departure. The ... -
Face-saving or fair-minded : what motivates moral behavior?
(Discussion paper;5/2013, Working paper, 2013-02)We study the relative importance of intrinsic moral motivation and extrinsic social motivation in explaining behavior in the dictator game. We introduce a novel design that manipulates these two dimensions. The paper ... -
Guided through the "Red tape"? : information sharing and foreign direct investment
(Discussion paper;3/2013, Working paper, 2013-02)What drives the observed tendency of new FDI, other things equal, to be attracted to locations where many other foreign investors are located? One explanation in the literature on FDI location is that expected bene ts ... -
Identification in models with discrete variables
(Discussion paper;1/2013, Working paper, 2013-01)This paper provides a new simple and computationally tractable method for determining an identified set that can account for a broad set of economic models when economic variables are discrete. Using this method it is ... -
Crime and punishment : when tougher antitrust enforcement leads to higher overcharge
(Discussion paper;4/2013, Working paper, 2013-02)The economics of crime and punishment postulates that higher punishment leads to lower crime levels, or less severe crime. It is however hard to get empirical support for this intuitive relationship. This paper offers ... -
A behaviour-based approach to the estimation of poverty in India
(Discussion paper;2/2013, Working paper, 2013-01)Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices. Widespread criticism of these indices led to the adoption of a new o cial methodology in 2011 based ... -
A note on upward pricing pressure : the possibility of false positives
(Discussion paper;11/2012, Working paper, 2012-05)Farrell and Shapiro proposed a simple test of the possible upward pricing pressure (UPP) following a merger. They showed that the test may give false negatives, that is, indicate that a merger may not give an UPP, while ...