Discussion papers (SAM): Nye registreringer
Viser treff 221-240 av 658
-
The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment
(Discussion paper;09/15, Working paper, 2015-04)Globally installed wind power capacity has grown tremendously since 2000. This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment. A theoretical model shows that wind power deployment is not necessarily ... -
Keynes, Trouton and the Hector Whaling Company. A personal and professional relationship.
(Discussion paper;08/15, Working paper, 2015-04)John Maynard Keynes’ activities on the stock market are well known. One company in which he bought stocks was the Hector Whaling Company Ltd., London – a comparatively small and little known company founded in 1928. The ... -
Sharing Mare Nostrum: An analysis of Mediterranean maritime history articles in English-language journals
(Discussion paper;07/15, Working paper, 2015-04)This discussion paper is a follow-up to a previous bibliometric analysis of articles published in The International Journal of Maritime History and maritime-themed articles published in other economic and business history ... -
Variations in the price and quality of English grain, 1750-1914: quantitative evidence and empirical implications.
(Discussion paper;06/15, Working paper, 2015-03)Interpretation of historic grain price data may be hazardous owing to systematic grain quality variation – both cross sectionally and over varying time horizons (intra-year, inter-year, long run). We use the English wheat ... -
Licensing and Innovation with Imperfect Contract Enforcement
(Discussion paper;05/15, Working paper, 2015-03)Licensing promotes technology transfer and innovation, but enforcement of licensing contracts is often imperfect. We explore the implications of weak enforcement of contractual commitments on the licensing conduct of ... -
Reference pricing with endogenous generic entry
(Discussion paper;04/15, Working paper, 2015-03)In this paper we study the effect of reference pricing on pharmaceutical prices and expenditures when generic entry is endogenously determined. We develop a Salop-type model where a brand-name producer competes with generic ... -
Teaching through television: Experimental evidence on entrepreneurship education in Tanzania
(Discussion paper;03/15, Working paper, 2015-02)Can television be used to teach and foster entrepreneurship among youth in developing countries? We report from a randomized control field experiment of an edutainment show on entrepreneurship broadcasted over almost ... -
Weather shocks and English wheat yields, 1690-1871
(Discussion paper;02/15, Working paper, 2015-03)We estimate a time series model of weather shocks on English wheat yields for the early nineteenth century and use it to predict weather effects on yield levels from 1697 to 1871. This reveals that yields in the 1690s were ... -
On the perils of stabilizing prices when agents are learning
(Discussion paper;01/15, Working paper, 2015-01)We show that price level stabilization is not optimal in an economy where agents have incomplete knowledge about the policy implemented and try to learn it. A systematically more accommodative policy than what agents expect ... -
Political Uncertainty and Household Savings
(Discussion paper;34/14, Working paper, 2014-12)Despite macroeconomic evidence pointing to a negative aggregate consumption response due to political uncertainty, few papers have used microeconomic panel data to analyze how households adjust their consumption after ... -
Optimal trade policy with monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms
(Discussion paper;33/14, Working paper, 2014-11)This paper derives optimal trade and domestic taxes for a small open economy containing a monopolistically competitive (MC) sector in which firms may have heterogeneous productivity levels. Analysis encompasses cases in ... -
Capital taxation and imperfect competition : ACE vs. CBIT
(Discussion paper;32/14, Working paper, 2014-11)This paper studies the market and welfare effects of two main tax reforms – the Corporate Business Income Tax (CBIT) and the Allowance for Corporate Equity tax (ACE). Using an imperfect-competition model for a small open ... -
Climate variability and international migration : an empirical analysis
(Discussion paper;31/14, Working paper, 2014-10)Is international migration an adaptation strategy to sudden or gradual climatic shocks? In this paper we investigate the direct and the indirect role of climatic shocks in developing countries as a determinant of ... -
Rent Sharing with Footloose Production. Foreign Ownership and Wages Revisited
(Discussion paper;30/14, Working paper, 2014-09)We present a bargaining model of wage and employment determina- tion, where we show that foreign acquisitions might hurt the bargaining outcome of powerful unions by giving the firm a credible threat to move production ... -
The family gap in career progression
(Discussion paper;29/14, Working paper, 2014-08)This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because of children. We use 1987-1997 Norwegian panel data that contain information on individuals’ position ... -
Breaking the glass ceiling? : the effect of board quotas on female labor market outcomes in Norway
(Discussion paper;28/2014, Working paper, 2014-08)In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women ... -
Made in China, sold in Norway : local labor market effects of an import shock
(Discussion paper;25/2014, Working paper, 2014-06)We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by exposure to import competition from China. We find negative employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled workers tend to be pushed ... -
Does grief transfer across generations? In-utero deaths and child outcomes
(Discussion paper;23/2014, Working paper, 2014-06)While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the ... -
Life cycle earnings, education premiums and internal rates of return
(Discussion paper;24/2014, Working paper, 2014-06)What do the education premiums look like over the life cycle? What is the impact of schooling on lifetime earnings? How does the internal rate of return compare with opportunity cost of funds? To what extent do progressive ... -
The effect of welfare reforms on benefit substitution
(Discussion paper;22/2014, Working paper, 2014-05)Policy-makers have confronted welfare dependence and poverty among single mothers by imposing work requirements and time limits on the receipt of welfare benefits. Reforms with such features have generally reduced programme ...