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Employment policies at the plant level : job and worker flows for heterogeneous labour in Norway
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-03)Despite the large degree of plant-specific heterogeneity in turnover patterns recently found in the gross job and worker literature, very little is known about the sources of the heterogeneity in plant level employment policies. ... -
Integration and transition : scenarios for location of production and trade in Europe
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-05)Applying a newly developed CGE-model, we present scenarios for the future economic geography of Europe. The model divides the world into ten regions, of which five are European, and there are 14 industries, of which 12 ... -
Comparative advantage and economic geography : estimating the location of production in the EU
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-10)We develop and econometrically estimate a model of the location of industries across countries. The model combines factor endowments and geographical considerations, and shows how industry and country characteristics ... -
To peg or not to peg? : a simple model of exchange rate regime choice in small economies
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-10)The choice of an exchange rate peg often points to a trade-off between gaining credibility and losing flexibility. We show that the flexibility loss may be reduced if domestic and foreign shocks are correlated and more ... -
Private labels, price rivalry, and public policy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-06)The article examines how the existence of a retailer owned brand, private label, affects the price setting of a national brand. We find that the potential for a private label introduction may lead to price concessions ... -
Explicit and implicit incentives in fund management
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-01)Fund managers compete to attract new investors. Competition and fund management contracts provide implicit and explicit incentives for fund management. I study the combined effect of these two types of incentives on i) ... -
Price discrimination and three part tariffs in a duopoly
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-03)The paper studies how second degree price discrimination can be implemented in a duopoly with differentiated products. Two firms serve consumers having heterogeneous willingness to pay for the good, willingness to pay ... -
Towards a competitive society? : the promotion of competition as a goal of economic policy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999-04)This paper discusses the problems involved in considering competition policy as a separate area of economic policy. Two problems are given special attention. The first is the doubtful efficiency gain from enforcing ... -
Tax spillovers under separate accounting and formula apportionment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-05)It is observed in the real world that taxes matter for location decisions and that multinationals shift profits by transfer pricing. The US and Canada use Formula Apportionment (FA) to tax corporate income, and the EU ... -
Competing for capital in a "lumpy" world
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Markets for public and private health care : redistribution arguments for a mixed system
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-04)Should health care provision be public, private, or both? We look at this question in a setting where people differ in their earnings capacity and express an inelastic demand for health care. We assume that illness reduces ... -
Climate policy and the steel industry : achieving global emission reductions by an incomplete climate agreement
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-10)The steel industry is one of the largest sources of global CO2 emissions and hence a candidate for climate policies. A carbon tax on emissions in industrialized countries, however, will cause relocation of steel production ... -
Demand-side spillovers and semi-collusion in the mobile communications market
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)We analyze roaming policy in the market for mobile telecommunications. Firms undertake investments in network infrastructure to increase geographical coverage, capacity in a given area, or functionality. Prior to ... -
Local autonomy and interregional equality : fiscal equalization with balanced budgets
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-07)This paper contributes to the literature on fiscal equalization in three ways. First, it shows how two important types of transfer schemes, the foundation grant and the power equalization grant, can be seen as two ... -
Any non-welfarist method of policy assessment violates the Pareto principle : a comment
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Endogenous product differentiation in credit markets : what do borrowers pay for?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-11)This paper studies strategies pursued by banks in order to differentiate their services from those of their rivals. In that way competition among banks is softened. More specifically we analyze if the bank size, the ... -
Norwegian policy response to the international economic disintegration during the inter-war years
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On the significance of pre-existing distortions for the costs of environmental regulation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-05)Recently, several papers have shown that environmental taxes are more costly in an economy with preexisting distortions than in an undistorted economy. This result applies for equal percent reductions from different ... -
Economies of scale in European manufacturing revisited
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-06)We test for internal and external economies of scale in European manufacturing employing a more disaggregated data set than what has been used in earlier analyses, and aim to separate externalities from common business ... -
Do firms really share rents with their workers?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-05)We use matched firm - worker panel data from France and Norway to consider observationally equivalent alternatives to the hypothesis that firms share product market rents with their workers in the form of higher wages. ...