Discussion papers (SAM): Nye registreringer
Viser treff 641-658 av 658
-
The pluralism of fairness ideals : an experimental approach
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-09)A core question in the contemporary debate on distributive justice is how the fair distribution of income is affected by differences in talent and effort. Important theories of distributive justice, such as strict ega ... -
Educational attainment and family background
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-04)This paper analyses the effect of aspects of family background, such as family income and parental education, on the educational attainment of persons born from 1967 to 1972. Family income is measured at different periods ... -
What determines banks’ market power? : Akerlof versus Herfindahl
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-09)We introduce a model analyzing how asymmetric information problems in a bank-loan market may evolve over the age of a borrowing firm. The model predicts a life-cycle pattern for banks’ interest rate markup. Young firms ... -
Centralized vs. de-centralized multinationals and taxes
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-03)The paper examines how country tax differences affect a multinational enterprise’s choice to centralize or de-centralize its decision structure. Within a simple model that emphasizes the multiple conflicting roles of ... -
A new equity condition for infinite utility streams and the possibility of being Paretian
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-04) -
Regional policy and rent seeking : targeted versus broad based policies
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-04)Policies aimed at promoting regional development have often had disappointing results. The present paper offers an explanation for why such policies may fail, and, more importantly, analyses how policies may be designed ... -
In the wake of Tønnessen and Johnsen : trends in whaling history research after 1970
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-09)In 1970 the fourth and final volume of Arne Odd Johnsen and Joh. N. Tønnessens’s Den moderne hvalfangsts historie was published. The work represented a milestone in the writing about the development of the 20th century ... -
Vaporware
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-09)It is a widely adopted practice for firms to announce new products well in advance of actual market availability, especially in the computer industry. This practice of preannouncement often has been derisively referred to ... -
Perspectives on the economic history of the Antarctic region
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-09)This paper starts out by indicating how the economic history of the Antarctic could be conceptualized, given the peculiarities of the continent and the region (no permanent population, no sovereignty in a traditional ... -
Strategic bank monitoring and firms’ debt structure
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-10)Firms choose debt structure and competing banks choose monitoring intensity. Monitoring improves credit allocation, but creates informational lock-in effects in bank-borrower relationships. In a competitive credit market, ... -
Crisis? What crisis? : the expansion of Norwegian shipping in the interwar period
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-10) -
Pharmaceutical patents : incentives for R&D or marketing?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-11)We analyse how a patent-holding pharmaceutical firm may strategically use advertising of existing drugs to affect R&D investments in new (differentiated) drugs, and thereby affect the probability distribution of future ... -
Text and voice : complements, substitutes or both?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005)Text messaging has become an important revenue component for European and Asian mobile operators. We develop a simple model of demand for mobile services incorporating the existence of call externalities and network ... -
Reference pricing of pharmaceuticals
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-11)We consider a therapeutic market with potentially three pharmaceutical firms. Two of the firms offer horizontally differentiated brand-name drugs. One of the brand-name drugs is a new treatment under patent protection ... -
From the cradle to the labor market? : the effect of birth weight on adult outcomes
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-11)Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of oneyear mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether ... -
The historical relation between banking, insurance and economic
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005)We examine empirically the dynamic historical relation between banking, insurance economic (income) growth in Sweden using time-series data from 1830 to 1998. We examine long-run historical trends in the data using ... -
Basic analytics of multilateral lending and surveillance
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-09)I analyse whether multilateral lending may be justified in a world of global capital markets if multilaterals have an informational advantage over lenders in the market for sovereign debt. I show that the adverse selection ... -
Intergenerational risk sharing by means of pay-as-you-go : 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 ...